Clean off your Sewing Table Day.....

Every Monday I meet with the

Harlan Valley Quilters

to spend the day stitching...

There are 10 Quilters 

that meet here on Mondays:

This is my sewing table...

As you can see,

I have been having a whole lot of FUN !

We have been meeting here for 7 years.

Everyone has their own table,

all of our sewing equipment lives here.

I have only cleaned off my table once in 7 years...

I decided TODAY is the day...

I will remove everything,

give it a good wipe down

and get a fresh start for 2020...

Drum Roll please.....

Look.....there is even room for me 

to get in here now !

No more piles of bags on the floor...

A place to cut, a place to sew !

My little ironing surface is cleaned off...

Here is the best part:

the back side of the table is visible...

haven't seen that for years !

This looks so inviting...

This is what I will come back to

next Monday:

How yummy is this !

It took me a few weeks 

to convince myself to do this.

I am glad I did.

It is a gift I gave myself.

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where I sew at home.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Hexagon Table Runner......#3

English Paper Pieced.....Hexagons

I enjoy a hand piecing project when we travel,

so I am putting together a 

take-a-long table runner.

After all of the paper hexagons are covered with 

fabric, I put down a white piece of fabric and

arrange the table runner...

This is my third table runner,

and I still enjoy the process.

The pieces are all arranged,

but not sewn together just yet...

I pin each hexagon to the fabric base.

They will live on this fabric until they

are hand pieced together.

The fabric will not remain under the hexagons.

Once they are all pinned down,

this becomes a portable project and

the hexagons will stay in the proper order

for stitching.


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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Candy Bag.....Zip Cases 3

A few more FUN zip cases...

still having a great time stitching up these bags...

Most any package works with Iron On Vinyl:

Yes, Oreo packages work great !

Once you begin making these,

you will begin looking at your packaging 

in a whole new light...

Tater Tot Zip Case

Steak Fries Zip Case

Food packages make FUN Zip Cases !

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Pincushion Thread Catcher.....Class

I attended a Quilt Retreat this week...

We started out the retreat by stitching up

Pincushion Thread Catchers

If you have never made one of these,

there are a lot of online tutorials out there...

Once you make one,

you will wonder how you got along without it.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Bowling...

I caught the Bowl bug...

This is the third Fabric Wrapped Bowl 

this week...

After 2 oval bowls,

I made a round bowl:

I rolled the top edge of the bowl..... down

I like it !

I put all of the bowl making supplies 

away in the closet.

I need to move on.

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YouTube Bowl Tutorial

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Fabric Wrapped Clothesline.....Bowl

I haven't made a 

fabric wrapped clothesline bowl

in 5 years...


I thought I would give it a try:

Just as much FUN as I remembered !

The fabric strips are a few 

batiks and some hand dyes...

The oval shape was easier than I remembered...

It is rainy, dark and gloomy outside...

these colors cheered me up !

This one will replace the one I made 5 years ago 

that we store our remote controls in.



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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi