{"id":68991,"date":"2025-12-10T07:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=68991"},"modified":"2025-12-06T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:16:39","slug":"bam-bom-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/bam-bom-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BAM BOM Month 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68770\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251116_184210_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68770\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251116_184210_wm-sm-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"BAM BOM Month 2 blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251116_184210_wm-sm-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251116_184210_wm-sm-1024x367.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251116_184210_wm-sm-768x275.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251116_184210_wm-sm-1536x550.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251116_184210_wm-sm-2048x734.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251116_184210_wm-sm-1200x430.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BAM BOM Month 2 blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because of the holidays people have two months to make the next two blocks. Month 2 and 3 blocks are due at the January Meeting. I made a set of Checkerboards very quickly right after the meeting. Since I am one of the leaders, I really want to keep ahead of the others as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Once things had settled down a little for me, I made another checkerboard block from the book Cyndi lent to me, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4oz3s2R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Use Scraps, Sew Blocks, Make 100 Quilts<\/a>** by Stuart Hilliard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68987\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251204_134308_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68987\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251204_134308_wm-sm-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"BAM BOM Checkerboard, month 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251204_134308_wm-sm-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251204_134308_wm-sm-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251204_134308_wm-sm.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BAM BOM Checkerboard, month 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/bam-bom-start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide variety of fabrics<\/a> that would make this block look like the one in the book, but I am pleased with the way it came out.<\/p>\n<p>I cut up the Philip Jacobs print to make the middle then used the others (added some additions since the start) around the outside. I want to work with this block again at some point. Still, I like the way it came out. I keep looking at it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69000\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251206_140831_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69000\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251206_140831_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"BAM BOM December 2025\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251206_140831_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251206_140831_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251206_140831_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BAM BOM December 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although blocks were not due at this meeting, people brought some, so we put them up to illustrate when we introduced the new block.<\/p>\n<p>It is so fun to see the different designs that appeal to the participants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**Obviously, you should shop at local quilt shops and small businesses. However, if you are too busy or can\u2019t find what you need there, I use Amazon affiliate links and may be paid for your purchase of an item when you click on an item\u2019s link in my post. There is no additional cost to you for clicking or purchasing items I recommend. I appreciate your clicks and purchases as it helps support this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the holidays people have two months to make the next two blocks. Month 2 and 3 blocks are due at the January Meeting. I made a set of Checkerboards very quickly right after the meeting. Since I am one of the leaders, I really want to keep ahead of the others as much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/bam-bom-month-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BAM BOM Month 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[137,349,72,331],"class_list":["post-68991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-group-project","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68991"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69007,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68991\/revisions\/69007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}