{"id":5939,"date":"2026-05-24T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:54:23","slug":"bom-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/24\/bom-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"BOM progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two<\/a>My local quilt group is working on a BOM again this year, this one designed by our “fearless leader”. She’s a talented quilter\/designer who has had some quilts published in a magazine, and she volunteered to do this one for us this year. She made the blocks 8″ square, with a separate tree block to be added to each in the final assembly. However, I prefer smaller blocks, so I’ve been “shrinking”” each one to 4″ (plus tree to be added later) — a challenge in some of them, given the half-rectangle squares. So far, so good, though! These two are the most recent, for June (on the left) and July.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>This is the full set of blocks so far; we’re sort of ahead, but that will allow extra time for finishing at the end of the year. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My local quilt group is working on a BOM again this year, this one designed by our “fearless leader”. She’s a talented quilter\/designer who has had some quilts published in a magazine, and she volunteered to do this one for us this year. She made the blocks 8″ square, with a separate tree block to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,299,1],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-piecing","category-quilting","category-uncategorized","tag-piecing-2","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1541.jpeg?fit=320%2C262&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1xN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5905,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/30\/oops-i-did-it-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":5939,"position":0},"title":"Oops … I did it again.","author":"Sandy","date":"March 30, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year I ended up working on two BOMs, which kept me pretty busy while also trying to work on various other projects. 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