4:08 AM - I stopped fighting it...; BOM layouts....

...I think I'm coming down with a summer sinus bug; my nose has been running for the past 20 minutes or so; some loud thunder-boomers just rolled through....I told myself I would give myself until 4:00 to see if I would fall back to sleep....

Well---I think my morning has arrived. Again, I don't know if it's the Predinsone or other factors, but this is SO UNLIKE me! I guess I'll go putz with my BOM designs.......



4:56 AM update
I don't have any lovely design software, although I have contemplated and contemplated the purchase of some... Until (if ever) that day arrives, I rely on hand drawing on graph paper or using the limited capabilities of Excel....

I started by just testing out using all 30 blocks that I'll have upon the completion of the BOM in a 5x6 layout, but I think that'll end up being quite large. According to the QOVF "overview" website, "Finished size should be no smaller than 55" by 65" or larger than 72" by 90". I would be right at the largest recommended size without any borders; and QUITE BORING, don'tcha think???

Then I sized it down and only used 13 blocks.....which would give a quilt roughly 60"x84".
..then tinkered some more and got a larger quilt again using 17 blocks....roughly 72"x88". BIG, but "funner" than the 5x6 layout.

So if I do the math, 13 + 17 = 30! If I make both the 13-block and 17-block layout, I will have used all 30 BOMs! I'm kinda liking the non-linearness (yet still linear) pattern of the off-center rows.....

Out-of-order-UPDATE: 6:42 AM
Looking at the 17-block layout more-n-more.....I think I REALLLLLY like it; which means I may need to cough out 4 more blocks at the end of this BOM to make TWO of the 17-block layouts........

{{Gosh, today is only the 15th, but I've already posted 24 times this month! I think that's a new record!}}

6:06 AM update
Yup....facelifted. I jumped on board with a few others that have given their blogs a rejuvination :0)