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Mimi's Bloomers Block 4

Here it is friends...BLOCK 4..ta da!!!!

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Now I am off to watch my youngest child graduate from high school...I will probably blub and have red swollen eyes so there won't be any pictures...hopefully.

Mimi's Bloomers Block 3

Happy Friday Everyone! Here is Bloomer Block 3.

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Mimi’s Bloomers Block 2

Happy Friday everyone! Here it is Mimi’s Bloomers Block 2:

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You can still find links to the Miss Kyra page by clicking on the “Help Miss Kyra” button on the left side of the blog.

Mimi’s Bloomers Block 1

Here is the first of the non-corner blocks for Mimi’s Bloomers. Have fun!!!

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Mimi’s Bloomers….the corner blocks

Hurray Hurray….This is the launch of Mimi’s Bloomers!

It was really great to read everyone’s comments last weekend. I’m glad you guys like the on-point setting because I am really digging it right now. So, here’s the deal. There will be 14 blocks. For the corners blocks you can make two of each or if you only want one, make 4 of those. The drawing above is just the preliminary layout…I’m waiting to see how things evolve before I commit to small inner borders. There will be directions for finishing both ways.

So, without further ado…here are the corner blocks:

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AND here is the General Information Sheet:

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Enjoy!

Remember: Center blocks can be purchased in my shop. Click on the "Visit my Shop" button on the left side of the blog to get there.

Mimi’s Bloomers…the Preliminary Layout?

So I am busy planning this year’s Block of the Month and I had a little brainstorm. The last two years the BOM has had pretty much the same layout plus or minus and appliqué border. This year I thought I might try an on-point layout. The pictures are preliminary photoshop examples. The one at the top has no small border. The one below does. Any thoughts?

In this layout there are 16 blocks, all 9” x 9”. I think that I will only do 12 so some will have to be repeated...BUT just look at all that lovely room for pretty quilting!

As most of you know, this blog is very “real time”, which means that things evolve. Right now I’m kinda digging the on-point layout. Look for more info next week!

Mimi’s Bloomers Fabric

For next year’s BOM I decided that, since I am truly crazy, I would attempt doing it in two colorways. The first colorway is shown here.

When I first started brainstorming about the BOM I was going to use really really bright colors and call it Bossy Bloomers. Every time I started working on it, however, the color really started to bug me because they were clashing…getting bossy with each other. So I finally had to put them away. As I sat in front of my stash these colors just kept jumping out at me. This is one of my favorite combinations of colors and I just needed to work with them this year because they make me really happy.

Here is the colorway I am using for the smaller quilt (no center block). This is what color people call an analogous grouping since all these colors are next to each other on the color wheel. I find it very soothing and think it would make a really pretty summer quilt for my bed.

Here are my recommendations for fabric for YOUR versions of Mimi’s Bloomers. First off, work from your stash if you have one. You can do this whole quilt from scraps since the pieces are pretty small. You will need ½ yard for stems, so pick your color scheme and then choose a good all purpose green and buy ½ yard of that. For backgrounds, if you don’t want to go scrappy, buy 4 yards of what suites your color scheme. There will be sashing and a border but you can wait to buy that until you have some blocks done to see what will work. I cannot tell you how many times I have invested in border fabric only to find it doesn’t suite the quilt when I am done. The colors for my Miss Mimi quilt are very close to some of the solid-ish fabrics in the Pam Kitty Morning line from Lakehouse Fabrics. If you really need to buy fabric you can find them here:

http://www.fatquartershop.com/Pam-Kitty-Morning-Lakehouse-Dry-Goods.asp?Store_Id=499&T=1

I have started a new tab in the categories section called Mimi’s Bloomers where I will link all the posts for this quilt for easy finding.

Introducing 2012 Block of the Month…Mimi’s Bloomers

Phew! Nothing like a speed appliqué job to make your fingers really sore!

Here it is, the center block for my 2012 BLOM, Mimi’s Bloomers. This BOM is going to run just like My Tweets did this year. There will be free patterns, one per month. If you want to make the large quilt I ask that you purchase the center block, Miss Mimi. At the end of the year there will be finishing directions for a quilt with the center block and a smaller one without the center block. The small patterns for this one are going to be 12” x 12” and the center block will be 26” x 26”. The blocks will be really fun floral sprays. I am, hopefully, going to be doing this in two color ways: the one shown and another in soothing blues, greens and yellows…more on this latter.

Miss Mimi, the center block, is up in the shop and the patterns will be shipping out later this week so everyone can put it on their Christmas and Holiday lists.

I hope you all join me for this…I am BEYOND excited!!!!