{"id":69952,"date":"2026-03-07T07:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=69952"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:30:38","slug":"playing-with-the-bam-bom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/playing-with-the-bam-bom\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with the BAM BOM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BAM BOM blocks – Feb. 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lil Sissy was in town last week for 12 hours on her way to a sun, sand and scuba diving adventure. She called me a few days before and I cut her in on my day’s plans: museum, GF Chinese food lunch. Then we did some things she wanted, namely getting supplies for some jackets she plans to embellish.<\/p>\n

Once we were back and my house she saw my BAM BOM blocks and I let her play with them. We used the ‘design floor’ (LOL) since the design wall was full to bursting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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BAM BOM Flying Geese -Lil Sissy arrangement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is always interesting to have an artist who uses a different medium play around with quilt blocks. I laid them out in a more or less conventional way. She immediately saw diagonals in places I hadn’t noticed.<\/p>\n

She wanted me to make a bunch more Flying Geese so I can really lean into the diagonals. I’ll think about that. <\/p>\n

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BAM BOM HSTs -Lil Sissy arrangement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She also played with the Half Square Triangles (triangle squares) a bit. Again, she leaned into the diagonals. This arrangement has good possibilities even if I do have to make more HSTs. I think it would look cool to weave the diagonals behind the other blocks. <\/p>\n

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BAM BOM Friendship Star Wreath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, we talked about my big Friendship Star Wreath and whether I should re-make it with a dark background. She said no, but I might still do it. That white shrieks at me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lil Sissy was in town last week for 12 hours on her way to a sun, sand and scuba diving adventure. She called me a few days before and I cut her in on my day’s plans: museum, GF Chinese food lunch. Then we did some things she wanted, namely getting supplies for some jackets … Continue reading “Playing with the BAM BOM”<\/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":[558],"tags":[137,349,72,330,252],"class_list":["post-69952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-group-project","tag-other-artists","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69952","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=69952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69955,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69952\/revisions\/69955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}