Monday Project....Reflections of Autumn

 

On Mondays I meet up with my

Quilting Tribe @ The Quilt Palace...

This is my newest Monday quilt project:

Reflections of Autumn Quilt

I will only be working on this on Mondays

when I am @ The Quilt Place...

How gorgeous is this border panel !

16 beautiful autumn prints....yummy !

Close-Up View of a few of them:

I spent today sorting and labeling all of the

fabrics that came in the kit:

I was able to cut out all of the pieces too...

Before the end of the day I began

stitching a few squares together...

This was my first Monday working on this quilt

and what a wonderful day I had

handling all of these autumn prints.

Looking forward to next Monday !

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Quilt Retreat....Day 3

Today at the Quilt Retreat I am stitching a

Project Bag 

This Petal Power line of fabric is so FUN !

I am using the mini charm squares

to create the inside of the bag...

I have cut a chunk of Pellon Fusible Foam

as a base to lay out the mini charms...

Once the charm squares are pieced together,

I fused them onto the foam:

Then I stitched in the ditch

and quilted it all together...

So much quilting definition when stitching

through the foam...

At this point,  the top of the bag is complete

with the vinyl window section

stitched between the yellow fabrics...

The handle is sewn in with the binding

around the edge:

Project Bag:  22 inches square

Here it is with a smaller project bag

I made a few months ago:

I am ready to travel with my quilting projects !

This is the new Quilt Palace Kitten:

Last Autumn

Kitten....2 months of age

Kitten.......4 months old

Kitten today.....8 months old

It is FUN to watch him grow!

He finds everything Quilters do...just fascinating !

He has learned how to un-thread 

the sewing machines,

which is not so fun for the Quilters...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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Quilt Retreat...Day 1

I spent this week with the

Harlan Valley Quilters

at the HVQ Spring Quilt Retreat 2022

 

I took along my new large flowers quilt top...

I decided I want this quilt to fit my bed,

so I added more of the white background

around all 4 borders...

This white background will give me lots

of open space for some FUN quilting designs...

I have the background fabric ironed

and ready to baste...

We have a big work table where we

spray baste our quilts together...

I spray baste with Odif 505 spray...

no odor and it sticks really well 

and comes out in the wash...

I use wool batting in all of my bed sized quilts...

The Quilt Palace Kitten 

seems to approve of my newest quilt...

More To Come !

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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Pick Up Sticks.....Trimming

Trimming... 

I spent some time this week trimming blocks...

Pick Up Sticks Quilt Blocks...

Trimming the blocks down to 10 inches...

The Harlan Valley Quilters

have created 30 Pick Up Sticks Blocks

Here they are timmed down to 10 inches

and ready for borders.

We will stitch the borders on next week.

This is one of our newest babies:

Strawberry Alice has a new heifer calf.....Silky

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Pick Up Stix Quilt Blocks...

 

Every Monday I spend the day with

The Harlan Valley Quilters

   As a group, we stitched up

Pick Up Stix blocks...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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