BOMs Are Popping Up All Over!

The fabric companies offer so many nice ideas for us.  I went to Lecien and found a beautiful quilt called Elegance in Centenary which is a larger wallhanging.  They have many more patterns including this Hello Sunshine embroidery pattern, isn't she cute? I could spend hours looking at their patterns.

Peck Pieces has some really cute Christmas blocks, they are very unique and also a lot of pincushion tutorials in her tutorial area.  That block with the hearts and roses is just gorgeous and is a neat combo of applique and paper piecing.

Shabby Fabrics has a mystery quilt  called Celebrate the Year.  The first block is now up and it has detailed directions about her BOM's and mystery quilts.  She also has a sweet Country Cottages BOM.  The fabrics are just beautiful on their website and so are all the patterns.

The Aurilfil site just continues to give us great ideas.  Their patterns are just wonderful and the blog has many links to them.  The Pat Sloan embroidery blocks are great, love those colors.  Also just some of the new DOMs are from Erin Russek, she is the first designer of this years Designer of the Month Blocks.  They have  an ornament of the month, I think this project would be totally doable , just a small embroidery every month! There is also previous years of Designers of the Month plus a wonderful Mystery quilt at the end, applique and piecing together.  Well, I have to get out of that place before I go cut up all my fabrics!

Jillily Studio, what a neat designer, love the Christmas placemats and that Holiday Lane Pillow is a must make.  The long shape of the pillow is so nice. She has some other quilt size patterns like Elizabeth's quilt and the Sorbet quilt and also a tutorial on making cathedral windows.  She also has a shop with some nice items for quilters and fabrics too.
Hope you enjoy these.  Diana

Some BOMs

If you like traditional blocks and especially blocks about women who made a difference, then you might like the Grandmothers Choice BOM.  For 49 weeks, 8" block patterns will be featured along with a great story about the block and the right to vote for women.  Green, white and purple were adapted as the suffrage movements's colors in New England, a cheddar yellow was most of America's color and green, gold and white was Australia's.  This blog is just a treasure of information so spend some time there and you'll really appreciate one of our most important freedoms.

There is just a huge amount of projects at Angie's Bits n Pieces and there are a few BOM going at once. Click on the BOM and you will find three going for 2013, Animal Babies, Nana's Kitchen and a really sweet Kokeshi Dolls.

Erin Russek at One Piece at a Time is starting a beautiful BOM called Jingle Belle and the first installment is out.  It is going to be beautiful just from the sample of that block.

Tracee Doran is going to make 36 quilts in one year and give them away to 36 special people.  You will want to read her quilt stories and watch her progress.

Ewe's Quilting has a BOM from last, so all you sheep and wool lovers, take a peek.  They are kinda cute.

If you love Dresden Plates, you should check out the "Dare to Dresden" blog hop. There are links to 100 bloggers who are featuring their Dresden plates and many different ideas for a favorite block.