Little House Table Runners...

I meet with my local quilt group

on Mondays...

The last several Mondays I have been

creating Little House Table Runners...

They are a great deal of.....FUN !

They require very little fabric

and they are fusible applique'

so they go together rather quickly...

They are small and easily fit under the

sewing machine for machine quilting...

This striped fabric from the stash

makes a great binding treatment...

I am nearly done with this one...

The last step...adding the binding.

All DONE !

That feeling of completion is wonderful !

I have completed 5 table runners on Mondays...

they should make great holiday gifts.

We are weaning calves soon

so I won't have much time in front of

my sewing machine this week.

More To Come...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

The Favor...

I am spending the day machine quilting... 

I work on a Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen

This isn't my quilt...

I am doing this machine quilting as a favor.

The maker of this quilt top chose the fabrics

from my fabric cupboard,

then asked me to cut it into squares...

She put the squares up on the design wall

and arranged them to her liking...

She sat down at her sewing machine

and stitched the squares together.

I helped her measure for the borders.

I cut them and she stitched on the borders 

and completed the quilt top.

Christmas Break was over and she went home.

Before she left she asked me...

"Would you do me a favor and quilt this?"

I asked her what she planned to do 

with this quilt top?

She replied, "I'm giving it to my mama 

for her birthday."

The maker of this quilt top is 8 years of age

and doesn't know how to machine quilt.....yet.

Yes, I am machine quilting if for her:

The machine quilting is complete

and my favorite part is to cut off the rough edges.

It is now ready for a binding...

The binding is cut, pressed and ready

to stitch down to the quilt...

The coffee can goes between my feet

on the floor and the binding feeds out of it

beautifully as I stitch it on...

I use binding clips every inch to hold the 

binding in place as I stitch it down...

That beautiful binding that comes to

a perfect point on each corner

is so satisfying...

This is the back side of the 

machine-sewn binding...

just as pretty as the front side.

This will be packed up tomorrow and

shipped out to the maker of the quilt top...

her mama's birthday is just a few days away

and she is counting on me to do the favor.

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LuAnn Kessi

Fabulous Finish....Number 6

 

I am adding another quilt to my

Fabulous Finishes 2022

Floral Monet 2

I finished up the machine quilting yesterday

on the Sweet Sixteen sit down long arm...

This quilt is all about the gorgeous fabrics.

I used yellow thread on the top

to blend in with the fabrics...

It is all trimmed and ready for binding...

Binding strips are cut 2 1/4 inches wide...

I am using my walking foot

to stitch on the binding...

The stitch in the ditch sole plate

helps keep the thread right next to the binding...

Here are the 3 sole plates for the walking foot:

Standard sole plate on left

Stitch in the Ditch sole plate in center

Open Toe sole plate on right

When I stitch from the top side,

the thread tucks in nicely

next to the binding...

Binding completed today...

That gorgeous rose fabric is also

on the back side of the quilt...

I gave away the first Floral Monet in 2015...

I think I will keep this one for myself.

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LuAnn Kessi

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Fabulous Finish....Number 5

 

This improv piece has been sitting

around for almost 2 years...

It has waited long enough.

The top consists of Pick Up Stix blocks...

This is a piece I hand dyed and

         silk screened.

I sliced it up and created borders...

The quilt top is ready to be basted and

go under the needle...

This is a small quilt so I am doing the

machine quilting on my Bernina Artista 200...

I am using a walking foot for the

simple, wavy, line quilting...

The white thread does not compete with

the pick up stix blocks

and shows up nicely in the borders...

Time to get this trimmed

and stitch on the binding...

I pawed through the cupboard and found this

hand dyed green for the binding...

Love these clips when binding...

I am stitching the binding on by machine

and pin these clips an inch apart

so the binding does not slip...

It has taken me a few years to master

a machine binding:

The binding looks great on the top side...

and the back side...

Here is the big reveal...

Fabulous Finish.... Number 5

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LuAnn Kessi