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

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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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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LuAnn Kessi

Improv.....Technique 5

I am trying out another improv technique

Pick Up Stix

I pawed through the scrap bag and pulled out

my Marcia Derse fabric scraps...

these are so FUN and have a grunge look...

I found this marble/stone like fabric

in the cupboard...

I had enough to cut 

30 squares @ 6 1/2 inches...

I cut the Marcia Derse fabrics into 

1 inch strips...

It is now time to cut into the squares and

insert these strips...

This is the first pick up stix block...

I have lots more blocks to piece.

I will post again when the blocks are done.

We have been calving for 6 weeks now

and have 51 calves so far.

Here is some cuteness for you:

A beautiful heifer calf...

she is a keeper.

Golden Girl has a bull calf

that looks just like her !

We call this heifer calf...Beauty



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Give' em a try.....they are FUN !

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi