Floral Monet......2

 

Floral Monet.....1

Floral Monet 1 was completed in 2015.

I gave it away as a gift...

It was so gorgeous, 

I really missed having it around.

In 2016 my generous aunt cut out a 

Floral Monet kit

and gave it to me to piece together:

I pieced the top in 2016...

I put the borders on in 2017...

I basted the quilt sandwich in 2019...

Finally....here is Floral Monet 2

under the needle:

It is a very large lap quilt

so I am machine quilting it 

on the Sweet Sixteen...

In these dreary, gray, winter days...

this is a joy to work on !

I am quilting giant swirls and feathery plumes...

I quilted for about 7 hours...

I am nearly half way done...

We are busy again with the cows that

are calving now...

I hope to get back to this soon !

It won't be long and I can add this to my

Fabulous Finishes 2022

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Floral Monet......Quilt & Bind

I have had this quilt top finished for 10 years...

These are gorgeous Hoffman floral fabrics

It is time to baste it and get it under the needle...

505 Spray......my favorite basting spray.

This quilt is all about the fabrics...

very little of the machine quilting is prominent.

Try as I may, I just can't get a good shot of the stitching...

Lavender Binding...

Floral Monet

Half Log Cabin Blocks.....set on point

It's good to get this one done!

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LuAnn Kessi

Challenge Quilt.....Slideshow

Today is the BIG Reveal

for our 2012 Challenge Quilts...

Nature Walk

60 x 60 inches

You can follow along as I create

Nature Walk

by clicking on the slideshow below:

Many Thanks to Patsy Thompson for all her Quilting Inspiration over the years!

This quilt would not be complete without the Hand Dyed border fabric created by Vicki Welsh!

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CLICK HERE to view: Woven Sunshine Quilt

CLICK HERE to view: Sunflowers Quilt

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Life.....Through a Quilter's Eyes

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LuAnn Kessi

Evolution of a Quilter.....Virtual Tour of Exhibit 8

Virtual Quilt Tour Continues...

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Memories of Yellowstone

While traveling through Montana in 1997 on our family vacation to Yellowstone Park I found this pattern , Buffalo Camp, at a quilt store in Missoula.

This quilt represents one of my first attempts at free-motion machine quilting and machine appliqué.

Blue Ribbon Benton County Fair 2001

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Machine Piecing, Fusible Web Machine Appliqué, Free Motion Machine Quilting

Everyone of us is creative. We have the ability to weave the magic of creativity in our everyday lives. This creative light can shine from the center of our heart and radiates for all to see and be inspired by. When we choose to live in that creativity, the joy becomes infectious. --Unknown

Tatanka

(Indian for Buffalo)

My husband’s respect and admiration for the buffalo inspired me to create this original design for him.

This was the very first quilt created in my new Thread Shed Brad built for me in 2001.

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Machine Piecing, Fusible Machine Appliqué, Free Motion Machine Quilting

Blue Ribbon Benton County Fair 2002

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. --Doug Larson

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LuAnn

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Evolution of a Quilter -Virtual Tour of Exhibit 5

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Flowers For My Sissy

This was created as a birthday gift for my little sister, Sherry. She will see it for the first time when she comes to view this exhibit....SURPRISE!

This is a joyful and happy quilt, and reminds me of all the fun and laughter I have shared with my sister.

I love you Sissy

2009

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Disappearing 9 Patch Machine Piecing, Fusible Machine Appliqué, Free Motion Machine Quilting & Hyper-Quilted Feathers in Border, Original Design.

If you're surrounded by people you love, you must be home. --Dan Zadra

My sister and I at the exhibit last week

LuAnn & Sherry

Sherry looked at the quilt and said, "I can't believe you made this for me."

As for me...I can't imagine making it for anyone else...

In keeping with the theme of this exhibit, "Evolution of a Quilter", the next quilt is one of my earlier homespun creations...quite a contrast:

Angels Watching Over Us

This quilt was created with my favorite Red Wagon Plaid fabric collection.

I began piecing this quilt in the 1990’s and completed the Hand Quilting in 2003

What appeals to me most about this quilt is the homespun feel and folk art look.

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Machine Piecing, Fusible Appliqué, Hand Appliqué, Hand Quilting

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. --Og Mandino

If you are in the Corvallis, Oregon area you can see my quilts in person.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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Evolution of a Quilter -Virtual Tour of Exhibit 4

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The Mutton Conductors

My favorite part of this quilt is the dogs, also known in the sheep industry as “Mutton Conductors.”

I liked this quilt enough to make two of them.

The original quilt was auctioned on behalf of the Oregon Sheep Breeders Association.

It now hangs in the Coos County Extension Office as a piece of Agricultural Art.

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Machine Piecing, Fusible Machine Appliqué, Free Motion Machine Quilting

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

--Sigmund Freud

In keeping with the theme of this exhibit "Evolution of a Quilter" the next quilt is one I completed this year. It is a far contrast from the sheep quilt above.

Pepper Dish

45 x 45 inches

Created in a Judy Neimeyer class in Idaho in 2006.

If you look closely, you can see where Judy signed it.

The bright colors in this quilt appeal to me.

I enjoyed collecting all the different batik fabrics.

My favorite process was the machine quilting.

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Paper Piecing, Turned Appliqué, Free Motion Machine Quilting

"The things that we love tell us what we are."

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

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LuAnn

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Evolution of a Quilter -Virtual Tour of Exhibit 3

A few more quilts from the exhibit:

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Cowgirl

framed under glass

24 x 36

Cowgirl

My husband’s red heeler dog was a loyal companion

for many years.

This quilt was made to honor Cowgirl

and her significance in our family.

We miss you Sissy

2005

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Machine Pieced, Photo Transfer

Quilters are the storytellers of our generation, weaving tales and stitching stories with needles, fabric and thread.

--Unknown

A Letter to Brad from Cowgirl

A Loyal, Loving Red Heeler

To My Best Friend Brad,

I came to live with you when I was just a pup. You are the best friend a dog could ever have. I rode “shotgun” for you the rest of my life, and what a life it was!

Our days began and ended in a ride in Big Blue. We rode along together down the bumpy gravel road. You drove and I watched the pedals. We had many adventures together fixing fence, feeding cattle, going to the sheep barn. You never had to look for me, I was always right there by your side. You were the most important person in my life. Gosh, you were my life!

Everyone was my friend. I was always happy to greet people with a wag and a lick wherever we would go. But it was you that I was devoted to. I would wait outside the barn door for hours for you, and would wag my tail when I saw you come out.

I’m sorry I couldn’t stay any longer, but we were lucky to have 14 years together. And, I’ll still be waiting at the barn door until I see you coming through.

I Love You,

Cowgirl

Cabin In The Woods

I started this quilt in 1994 for my husband, Brad.

I included fabrics from my homespun collection of plaids. Each time I added something new to the quilt top, I would wrap it up and give it to Brad for his birthday, father’s day, Christmas......this went on and on for years! I also pulled it apart and changed it several times when he made suggestions about the design. I completed the quilting in 2008.

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Machine Pieced, Fusible Machine Appliqué, Free Motion Machine Quilting, Borders are original design.

Thomas Jefferson believed "Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Whether it be through words or music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle.

It is a way of reaching for immortality."

Kitty’s Star

Created in 1993 in a Lone Star Quilt Class instructed by Shannon Rettig of Summit, Oregon.

My goal was to learn precision piecing.

While I completed the Hand Quilting and Binding in 2002, Kitty Girl spent the last few weeks of her life asleep on and comforted by this quilt.

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Machine Piecing, Hand Quilting

The aim of art is to represent not the outward

appearance of things,

but their inward significance.

--Aristotle

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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Evolution of a Quilter -Virtual Tour of Exhibit 2

Virtual Quilt Exhibit Tour 2

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Grandmothers Flowergarden

&

Strength and Courage

In The Presence of the Past

Vintage Quilt Pattern: Grandmothers Flowergarden

Started in 1993 and Completed in 2003

This was my take-along-quilt. It traveled everywhere with me. Sewn by hand in planes, trains and automobiles; in doctors, dentists & orthodontist offices; at my children’s sporting events, ball practices, even at a wedding or two. I was tempted to sew a few stitches at long traffic lights in town.

It contains over 12,000 half-inch hexagons & 2,500 yards of thread for hand piecing.

The yellow center in each of the 150 flowers was cut from my grandmother’s house dress.

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Hand Piecing, Long Arm Quilted by Amy of Idaho

Feathered Circle quilted in the center of each flower

My Grandparents, Helen & Nicholas Fusco

Helen's yellow house dress is the center of each flower

Strength & Courage

Strength & Courage

Created in honor of my son, Heath’s,

high school graduation in 2003.

This is an original design that I quickly drew on

a sticky note one morning. It represents all the

things in life that Heath loves, especially growing

up along the Big Elk River in Harlan, Oregon.

LuAnn McDonald Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

http://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

Techniques: Machine Pieced, Fusible Machine Appliqué,

Long Arm Quilted by Roxanne Eneroth, Newport, Washington

The quilt you are making is an expression of who you are.

Even if you intend to give it as a gift or keep it yourself,

this quilt reflects your heart. It contains a piece of your soul and the work of your hands, so let it be the joy of your heart.

Detailed view of water at the bottom of the quilt.

If you are in the Corvallis, Oregon area you can view my quilts in person.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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