Snap Bag......Fever

I have a bit of Snap Bag Fever

going on lately...

On Mondays I sew @ the Quilt Palace

with the Harlan Valley Quilters.

Ralph is our Quilting Kitty

Creating Snap Bags has become

my Monday Madness project...

This Snap Bag was made from some 

painted fabrics

I had in my stash of surface design fabrics.

This snap bag is created from hand dyed and

thermofax screen printed fabrics.

This snap bag is created from

jello printed fabric...

The Snap bags don't require a lot of fabric

so it is a great way to use up smaller pieces.

They are also a great way to keep your

free motion quilting skills tuned up.

Fruit 'n Veggie printed fabric.

Thermofax Screen Printed fabric...

Although I use mainly 100% cotton fabric

in my surface design work...

most of my projects end up

80% cotton and 20% cat hair.

This is a commercial printed fabric that

I only had a fat quarter of......so it is a bag now.

This begged to be bubble quilted.

This is a commercial print fabric...

only a fat quarter so I turned it into a snap bag.

I sorted out piles of surface design fabrics 

from the cupboard,

so that means there will be more

snap bags to come!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Snap Bag.....Apples 'n Pears

This is a print I created a couple weeks ago:

Jello Printing with apples, pears and lemons

on hand dyed fabric.

I layered the print with batting and backing

and machine quilted it today:

I wanted to keep the quilting organic and simple

to keep the focus on the fruit prints...

It is layered with 2 pieces of batting

so the fruit prints would pop up!

This is the back side:

I liked the back so much I entertained the idea of

making the back the front of the snap bag.....hmmm.

Since this is a class sample for a printing class

next month, I decided to keep the 

print on the outside:

I found a thermofax screen printed fabric

I made years ago and sewed it to the top

of the bag for the metal measure tape sleeve.

I just love how the fruit prints pop out

from the machine quilting.

I want to make another...

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CLICK HERE to view Snap Bag Tutorial

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Ralph....the Machine Quilting Kitty

It's Time for.....Pets On Quilts

Cat on Quilt Category

This is Ralph......the Quilting Kitty

Ralph lives at the Quilt Palace

Watch the video below to see 

Ralph machine quilting:

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Fruit 'n Veggie Printing

The Art Sisters are playing with

Fruit 'n Veggie Printing

on Fabric

The table is set for FUN!

Lemon cut at different angles

Pepper

Beet

The Fruit 'n Veggies are ready...

and so are we!

We are applying paint to a jello plate

We are printing on hand dyed fabrics

We are using craft paints and fabric paints

This is more FUN than anyone deserves to have!

Jello plate covered with red and green paint.

Half of a beet pressed into the paint.

Beet impression on the jello plate

Kathy pulls the beet print off the jello plate.

Beet Prints on hand dyed fabrics

Corn Printing

Rolling the corn on red paint on jello plate

Pulling an apple and pear print off the jello plate

This is what the produce looks like 

at the end of the printing day.

Here are just a few of the printed fabrics:

Apples

Lemons

Beets

Apples and Pears

Mushrooms

Pears and Apples

Artichoke

Beets

Beets

Beets

Apples

Pears

Corn & Artichoke

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi