Garden Tea Party Quilt...

 

Time to get a binding on this quilt...

I place the folgers can on the floor 

between my feet and the binding 

feeds beautifully up and onto 

the quilt as I stitch it in place.

Binding clips hold the binding in place

as I stitch it down...

Almost done stitching the binding...

always a great feeling !

She's all bound and ready to go...

It was raining today, so I couldn't take her

outside for a full length photo shoot...

Machine quilting close up view:

Swirls and flower petal motifs...

This was a FUN one to machine quilt...

Always a great feeling to get a quilt 

to completion...

This quilt is on its' way to someone

who has had surgery and now radiation.

I hope it brings her comfort and peace

when she needs it most.

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LuAnn Kessi 

Garden Tea Party...Machine Quilting

I started this quilt top in June...

 

Garden Tea Party Quilt

I am absolutely in LOVE with these

gorgeous floral fabrics....

They are so feminine and lovely...

I basted the quilt last week

and it is time for machine quilting...

80 x 97 inches

I have been machine quilting with this sit-down

Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen for 15 years...

large quilts are a breeze with my big girl machine !

Those dark blue clamps hold up the quilt

so there is no drag while I am pushing it around

under the needle...

quilting feathers makes me happy...

feathers, flowers and swirls.....FUN !

Now, let me get back to my quilting

so I can get this beauty finished up...

More to Come !

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LuAnn Kessi 

Swoon B.O.M...

In April my Wednesday quilt group

The Harlan Valley Quilters

began our Swoon Quilt-A-Long

 

The first Wednesday of each month

we piece a new Swoon Quilt Block...

Each block requires 2 fat quarters...

as well as a background fabric...

Each member chose her own fabrics...

We will be making 9 blocks each...

It is fun choosing the two fat quarters

for the block each month...

These are my Swoon quilt blocks...

At the end of this year

we will finish our quilt tops...

More To Come !

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LuAnn Kessi 

Garden Tea Party Quilt...

 I am starting a new quilt project

on Wednesdays....

I am a sucker for large florals...

This Garden Tea Party Quilt kit

has been in my fabric cupboard since 2009...

I forgot all about it.....eek !

The interior of the quilt is all large cut blocks

and the edge is all fussy cut applique shapes...

These tea pots and flowers are the size

of my hand...

What a treat to work with all of these

beauties every Wednesday all summer long...

The blocks are cut large, which will

show off all of the large motifs...

The blocks are all different sizes

and it took an entire Wednesday to cut

all of them out...

Last Wednesday I started piecing the blocks

into long panels...

3 panels....in progress

This is as far as I got last week...

I am looking forward to starting the

applique work...

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LuAnn Kessi 

Baby Nines....Quilted & Bound

The Baby Nines Quilt is....DONE ! 

I machine quilted daisies all over...

I just kind of made this design up

as I went along....it was great FUN !

I had this lavender binding cut out

a few years ago and never used it...

it works nicely on this baby quilt.

How about that PINK backing...

This is a gift for our tractor mechanic...

He has been coming out to our place for

a few weeks now working on my

red tractor (it blew up last hay season)...

His baby is due any day

and the baby quilt is ready to go !

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LuAnn Kessi 

Baby Nines...

I am in need of a baby quilt...

 

This very scrappy nine patch pattern

will work nicely with the scrap fabrics

I have in the bin by my cutting table...

I used 2 inch squares to create the 9 patch blocks,

I had leftover 5 inch charm squares,

also found leftover white background fabric

from a previous quilt...

The 5 inch charm squares

for the center of the quilt

are up on the design wall...

I am placing the 9 patch blocks

around the charm squares...

9 patch blocks make everything better...

It's a good thing this is baby size...

I barely have enough fabric....eek !

The blue fabric is just right for the

side triangles...

it has baby goats on it....FUN !

All of these are leftovers from my

1930's reproduction quilt projects

I have done over the last 30 years.

Now to find a backing fabric and

get this basted and machine quilted.

More to Come !

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LuAnn Kessi