BOMs, BOWs and a Cruise, Oh My!

It has been a while since I have posted but that does not mean I have not been busy sewing away! 

I finished the Month 4 of the Barbara Brackman Threads of Memory BOM:

Here's the first four blocks in a collage format:

I had been working steadily on the Dear Jane blocks, but I took a break this weekend and started the Barbara Brackman BOW - Austen Family Album.  For this one I am using the fabric Ms. Brackman sent me in her Modernism line. I adore it.  I am adding to that line a tea-stained muslin and various snippets of neutral handwork -- edgings, lace,  and whatever else I find.  Here's the three blocks I finished this weekend:

 And I've worked  on Pat Sloan's Globetrotting BOM - here's the first 4 blocks in the relative position they will end up in the quilt. It will be a series of small blocks around the large on in the middle.

Along with continued travel for business, I snuck in a cruise with my quilter friend Suzanne. We went on a quilting cruise sponsored by Kelly Ann's Quilting and The Swirly Girls. We had a fantastic time, and I even finished the quilt top:

I love this pattern and I will make it again. It was designed with a white background, but I decided to change it up to black, as did one other person on the cruise. Suzanne used a beautiful blue batik for the background.  The next one I will do will be in patriotic colors for Quilts of Honor, but that's another post.



More on Dear Jane as soon as I catch up with taking pictures of all of the blocks.



And that's all folks for now.