Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Quilted......Vanity Bench




Here is something that has been on my list

for years.....


the bench to my vanity...






I found the remnant fabric from the vanity skirt I

made 10 years ago.....eek!

Amazing I could find the remnant....right.





I basted the quilt sandwich together with 

2 layers of batting...






I sat down at the sewing machine and played for an hour...






The doubled batting really brings out the stitching!











My vanity finally has a matching bench....






Get out one of those projects on your to do list...

You're worth it!






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LuAnn Kessi

Monday, November 23, 2015

Feeding Cattle...Video




It's a gorgeous, sunny afternoon...

Let's go get the cows fed!

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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Working Cattle...




It's too beautiful outdoors to stay inside and sew today...




Double Take

By: LuAnn Kessi



It is autumn and time to round up the cattle.


We are weaning the calves today.


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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Fabric Dye.....10 months old



I keep my dye concentrates in a mini frig.

I mixed them up last January 2015.

I have been using them all year long...



I was getting concerned that maybe 

they were losing their potency?





This green fabric was dyed with them today...






I am pleased with the way the fabric

took the 10 month old dyes.






This piece was dyed with 3 or 4 different green dyes.




I decided to use up all of the dyes in the frig today:


This is black dye.......





It definitely has lost most of his potency...






I have been told that black dye works best when

it is freshly mixed up and used right away.

Maybe that holds true?





This piece was done with Azure Blue and Deep Purple...






These 2 colors dyed really well






Deep and Rich colors!









The warm colors dyed really well...


I am pleased with this red piece of fabric.






This is dyed with several different red dyes.











This piece is dyed with reds and oranges.





This piece was dyed with yellow then orange on top.





All of the 10 month old dye concentrates 

were used up today to create these fabrics...





Other than the very light black fabric,

I don't think there was much color loss with

the 10 month old dyes.





I guess I can relax and quit worrying about my

dye concentrates getting old...





I will mix up new dye concentrates in 2016

and not worry about them for the rest of the year!






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Monday, November 2, 2015

Thickened Dye......Part 2



I processed the last of my 

thickened dye deconstructed screens...


Here are the results after wash, dry and iron:




The thickened dye was scraped onto the fabric with a 

bondo scraper with fuchsia and purple dyes,

then using deep purple dye I drug the scraper 

to make the lines,

then I stamped dots and used a metal spring for stamping.














This piece is printed with 2 different screens:



Purple thickened dye was applied to the screen and dried






I used turquoise thickened dye to print the screen







Circular marks transferred from my print board cover







Rubber gloves were pressed into the purple thickened dye 

and allowed to dry on the screen...






Looks like glacier covered mountains to me




This is my favorite piece of the day:



It has a grunge quality that I appreciate...



First I applied thickened dye with a scraper...



It needed something more, so I took several exhausted 

screens and scraped off the last of the dried thickened dye 

onto this piece.

Think of it as cleaning the screens off on this piece of fabric.






Some really cool ghost like markings appeared 

after it was washed.













This piece has so much depth...






I plan to use a marker and do some graffiti writing on it.



This piece is also a combination of 2 screens:



The top portion is a screen dried with rubber bands...







Here is a close up of the rubber bands.

The screen exhausted after only 4 prints, so I used

a second screen to finish the fabric:




The second screen was created with a plastic grid.




This last piece is the cover from one of my old print boards:



I also love the grunge look of this piece...







This is a great background for further surface design work.



That's it for deconstructed printing....for now!










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