Hello Spring....Progress

 

This is my Wednesday project

Happy Spring Quilt

I have all 8 flower blocks completed

and I am piecing the lady bug blocks...

The table is set for.....FUN

Today I finished up the last 3 lady bugs

a total of 14 lady bug blocks

they measure 10 x 10 inches

The flowers measure 10 x 20 inches

This quilt makes me smile !

I have begun to orient the blocks

and cut the sashing strips...

I will finish this up in November.

We are loving the new Feeder Wagon...

It holds 5,000 lbs of hay...

The cows are loving it too !

This is our beautiful, golden Nellybelle

She is the daughter of Golden Girl

Nellybelle is bred and will have her first

calf next Spring.

I caught Scarlet licking her lips...

The girls are all gathered round the

Feeder Wagon...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi 

Weaning Calves....

 

It must be October...

we are weaning calves

It took a few days to round up 

all of the cow and calf pairs,

sort them out and load up the calves

in livestock trailers and haul

them to the weaning barn...

The calves are 6 to 8 months of age...

The calves are in the barn for

the next 2 weeks...

Most of the mama cows are a few miles

away at different locations,  but there

are a few that live in the pasture behind

the weaning barn, so they come up to the

barn and bawl at their calves...

Inside the weaning barn, the Cowboy

has set up bale feeders, a watering trough,

protein lick tubs and salt blocks

and a whole lot of wheat straw bedding

to keep the calves comfortable.

The mama cows are not very happy

with this arrangement...

Every morning when we come to 

feed the calves and bed the barn with straw,

we get the stare down from the mama cows...

The mama cows are expecting babies in February

so they need a break before their 

new calves are born.

October also brings gourds...

lots of tiny, cute ones !

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LuAnn Kessi 

Heart Brooches.....In Progress

In between weaning calves

I continue to stitch the

Heart Brooches

A few minutes here...

a few minutes there...

I am making progress on finishing up

the crazy quilt heart brooches.

The table is set for FUN !

Once the crazy quilt squares are done,

it is time to add the trims...

I made 2 dozen of these squares,

now it is time to turn them into

Heart Brooches...

Pink and Red Heart Brooches...

I think adding the trims is my favorite

part of the process...

A few Close-Up images:

How FUN are the tiny buttons...

Lots more to do,

but I am making progress a few minutes

of stitching at a time...

Calf Weaning Barn:

It's that time of the year...

Calf Weaning

It is noisy around here!

Calves bawling inside the barn...

Mamas bawling outside the barn !

The Mama Cows are usually over it

in 3 or 4 days...

takes a bit longer for the babies. 

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LuAnn Kessi 

Heart Brooches....Progress

Heart Brooches 

I received a heart brooch years ago and

wore it pinned to my jackets for several years,

I loved it...

I pulled out my scrap bin and sorted red and pink

fabric scraps.  I stitched them down to small 

squares of batting...

It was great FUN and I couldn't stop making

those crazy quilted squares...

I made 2 dozen of them in pink and red

I made a heart template

cut out from a manila folder

and traced the heart shape onto the squares...

I stitched small trims by machine

and fabric flowers by hand

on top of the crazy patchwork squares...

The heart template helped determine

the best place to trace out the heart shape

onto the crazy patchwork squares...

Once all of the squares have been

decorated with trim,  I will add backing

fabrics and cut them out...

I will share the rest of the process soon !

Get your fabric and batting scraps out

and have some FUN !

Autumn has found us here in

Western Oregon...

We are feeding cattle across the river

from our home place...

All of the red maple trees in the yard

are putting on a show !

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi