Hand Piecing and Covering Hay Bales...

 

I am making progress on the 

Horse Quilt Panel

English Paper Pieced.....Borders

I finished the 4th border last week...

Last evening I pieced the 4 borders together

which creates a frame around the horse panel...

I put a chair in the photo so you can see

the actual size of the piece.

My next opportunity, I will applique' this frame

to the horse quilt panel.

Most of the hay bales we made last summer

have been stored in all the barns...

The rest of them are stored outdoors...

It is time to get them covered:

We use large sheets of plastic 100 x 28 feet...

This plastic is heavy.

It is unrolled on top of the stacked hay bales...

Then the plastic is pulled down over the sides of the stack...

Now it is ready to be tied down...

The tying crew gets to work...

The different color paint circles on the ends

of the bales lets us know which field

the hay is made from.

In just a couple of hours,

all of the stacks are covered...

We will feed these bales first.

After they are all gone,

we will feed the bales that are in barn storage.

We feed over 400 bales a year,

which is nearly 200 tons of hay.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi