MONTH 8 LIVE Moved to August 2

[Barbara B.]

Due to a schedule change, the MONTH 8 LIVE will be Wednesday August 2, 2023, noon central time.

We will discuss leaves and flowers for the border and tour the website a bit.

I hope to see you there.

[sewskeel]

This BOM is not as much fun as last year. Once agin, I have spent an entire morning trying to get the colors from the kit matched to instructions, color chart and photos. I’m worn out

[lehab375]

I've never done any of the BOMs before in real time, so this is my first one. Normally, I am printing things out but going back a year or many more later to work on the quilt! I dislike some of the colors used in certain places so I've made whatever changes I wanted, so I am having fun. I've already purchased a second fabric for the birds as I don't want 8 blue birds - I'm going to have 4 red and 4 blue instead. I'm sorry to hear that you are not having as much fun as I am.

Linda

[Ann W.]

I agree that it isn't as much fun. I appreciate that Barbara is helping us with colors but it's still time consuming. I also think that Sarah's video instructions are subpar. I think my placement from Month 7 is way off. I'll work with what I have.

I agree, Sarah's videos are not helpful at all. Thank goodness we have Barbara!!!

[sewskeel]

I have reasoned that my problem is not knowing the names of the fabrics because we don’t have enough of the salvage to read it. But I realized the color names are not on several of the pieces. The numbers don’t even help identify them

[lehab375]

I go to google and type in what does Tula Pink "fill in the name of what I'm looking for" look like. Then I look at the images that show up. I know the list also shows how many inches of the fabric we started with, so sometimes I can tell by that. I've got notes on several of my pictures. Like tiny dots bluebell has the aqua dots where tiny dots sky has the pink dots. I did the same thing on several of the tiny stripe fabrics as well. I even have a note that says how I figure out which of the unicorn poop colors I should use. One says very light green, one says aqua, one says pale blue edging toward lavender because when I printed out month one, the photos didn't come out with true colors on my printer. I did a lot of that marking on month one when I was trying to line up the fabrics in order. Now they are a mess so I'm glad I had my notes. And I still look them up just to be sure when I cut strips and didn't make the notes and no longer have the full strip of what we started with.

Linda

[lehab375]

Hi Barbara - there is another typo in the instructions. I have a total of 16 vine flowers that I can count. 2 on top of the vine, 2 on the bottom on each of 4 borders. That makes 16. The instructions say to cut 4 each of the 2 colors. That only makes 8.

Linda

[lehab375]

Heck, I forgot to put in that the vine flower centers also only have us cutting 8 instead of 16.

Linda

[Barbara B.]

Hi Barbara - there is another typo in the instructions. I have a total of 16 vine flowers that I can count. 2 on top of the vine, 2 on the bottom on each of 4 borders. That makes 16. The instructions say to cut 4 each of the 2 colors. That only makes 8.

Linda

You are correct. I have updated my Blog with the correct number of Vine Flowers/Tops to cut, 16 of each total, not 8.

Thank you.