Drunkards Path.....Top Done

After 15 years of sitting in a drawer...

 the Drunkards Path Quilt Top is DONE !

This week I completed all of the

Improv X Blocks 

for the border treatment...

It measures 80 x 80 inches

Now I need to paw through the fabric

cupboards and find something

that will work for a backing...

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LuAnn Kessi 

Drunkards Path...X Blocks

Playing around with some

Improv X Blocks... 

I am trying find a border treatment

that will compliment this

Drunkards Path quilt top...

So much color on the work table...

I have arranged the drunkards path blocks

in circles...

The X Blocks add straight lines

to offset all of those circles...

The more I make...

the better I like it.

I need more!

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LuAnn Kessi 

Drunkards Path...Border

 

At this point, the blocks are all

pieced together into circles...

I do love the cirles...

I think the border treatment needs some

straight lines.

I started playing around with some

improv X blocks...

The X blocks are super FUN to make...

The X blocks play together well

with all of those circles...

In between trips to the hay fields,

I will come home and make a block or two

for the borders.

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LuAnn Kessi 

Drunkards Path Quilt Blocks...

 

More than 15 years ago

I pieced a pile of Drunkards Path blocks

I pulled out my batik fabrics and had FUN

curved piecing...

I have to say, I have never been fond

of Drunkards Path quilts...

The layout and design of the

Drunkards Path puts me on edge...

so the blocks have been sitting in a drawer.

While I was searching for something else

in the Thread Shed I found the blocks...

I started playing around with them...

The full circle makes me happy !

Circles have always made me happy...

I like the way the circle really

jumps out at you...

So BOLD !

So I made a pile of circle blocks...

16 inch Blocks

Up on the Design Wall...

not sewn together just yet.

First row stitched together...

Two rows together...

All 16 blocks stitched together...

15 Years and the Quilt Blocks

are finally stitched into a quilt top...

How FUN is this !

I am not sure about a border treatment?

I am liking the yellow fabric...

We are all done branding calves and getting

the cow and calf pairs out onto

summer pasture with the bulls.

I am working in the flower beds now

battling the weeds, mulching, fertilizing

and watching the flower seeds sprout.

The Cowboy is busy getting the hay equipment

out of storage and ready to rock 'n roll

in the hay fields very soon!

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LuAnn Kessi 

Soy Wax Over-Dye......Fabric Reveal

Here are the results of our

Soy Wax  Batik

Play Day last week...

These started out as light colored hand dyes:

This was a light gradient from blue to yellow

stamped with circle sponges

then over dyed dark green.

This is a lavender flour sack towel,

stamped with a hand cut sponge,

over dyed dark purple.

This was a piece I was using for

 a demo in classes.

It has all sorts of soy wax stamping on it.

It started out light peach colored,

then over dyed dark maroon.

I am not certain of the original color,

stamped with a pool noodle,

over dyed dark green.

Not sure who did this one,

very cool.... I like it.

This started out white,

stamped with leaf shaped sponge and circles,

over dyed dark green.

This started out very light blue,

stamped with plastic plumbing pipe,

over dyed dark maroon.

Stared out white,

stamped with circles and squares,

over dyed dark green.

This started out as a yellow hand dye,

stamped with a hand cut oval sponge,

over dyed black.

This is the only piece to survive 

the black dye bath.

All of the other pieces came out nearly all black 

without any resist?

I think this was waxed with a 

natural bristle brush?

White Fabric stamped with pool noodle,

over dyed dark green.

Lavender hand dye,

stamped with wire circles and plumber pipe,

over dyed dark purple.

stamped with potato masher and pool noodles,

over dyed dark purple.

Gradient hand dye yellow to blue,

stamped with sponges, pool noodles 

and plumber pipe,

over dyed dark green.

Light blue hand dye,

stamped with circles,

over dyed dark blue.

Stamped with sponges and circles,

over dyed dark purple.

Light blue hand dye,

stamped with glass bowl and circles,

over dyed dark green.

Light blue hand dye,

stamped with hand cut oval sponge,

over dyed dark blue.

This one has some previous soy wax 

that was over painted,

then soy waxed again,

then over dyed dark green.

Not sure what color this started out,

soy wax stamped with metal circles 

and pool noodles,

over dyed dark green.

We had a FUN day playing with 

hot soy wax and hand dyed fabrics 

that needed more surface design treatments.

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LuAnn Kessi