Rodeo Dreams...

 

Rodeo Dreams Quilt Top...

This Rodeo Dreams panel 

was a gift from my aunt

I hand cut and pieced the red and white

checkerboard inner border...

The red star border is paper pieced...

Last I added the red and blue outer borders...

The quilt top now measures 72 x 59 inches

I have the backing made and will machine quilt

this on my Sweet Sixteen long arm this winter.

It will eventually be displayed in our living room.

Stargazer Lily....a favorite

In full bloom just outside the door

to the Thread Shed.

I enjoy their fragrance every time I walk

through the door !

We spent June and July making hay

to feed our cattle over the winter months.

Not much time was spent at my sewing machines.

I have lots of hay making videos on Instagram

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LuAnn Kessi 

Brutus the Bear Quilt...

Brutus the Bear

Up on the wall in the living room

for the first time...

The mountain blocks at the top 

are paper pieced,

the trees and bear paw blocks 

are traditionally pieced.

The light green machine quilting thread

blends beautifully with all 

of the colors in the quilt.

 It's finished and we love it !

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LuAnn Kessi

Moose Quilt & Hay Season...

 

This is our current living room quilt:

How much do I love this Moose !

He is hanging out on the quilt rack

in the living room...

The moose has a lot of purple in him

so I had to include purple in the color story...

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It is hay season here in Western Oregon:

The Cowboy has my little red tractor

hooked up to the hay mower...

I am mowing the first hay field today...

This will be my view for the rest of the day.

It takes about 7 hours to get this field mowed.

I have my head phones on listening to lots

of great music and lots of ravens 

to keep me company.

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LuAnn Kessi

Rodeo Quilt.....Progress

 

I started the design work on the Rodeo panel

in February and I have been pecking away at it

on and off the last few months...

These paper pieced star patterns caught my eye

for a border treatment, but the 6 inch is too 

small and the 12 inch is too big...

I enlarged the 6 inch by 150%

and it finishes to a 9 inch block...just right.

It takes 4 sections to make one star block...

Here is the back side of the star block...

Star block ready to trim down to 9 1/2 inches...

It takes most of a day to finish a star block

from start to finish...

20 Star Blocks up on the design wall.

Now I have to figure out how to make the

red and white checker board inner border fit...

The last time I posted it was February

and winter here in Western Oregon...

As you can see through the Thread Shed window,

it is now Spring with lots of green grass

for the cattle to eat.

The last 3 months we have been calving and

are nearly done with calving season.

The cattle have been vaccinated and

it is now breeding season and the bulls

are in with the cows.

We mowed our first hay field yesterday.

I have been stitching most every day,

in between ranch work,

just not posting to this blog as much.

I will share more images soon.

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LuAnn Kessi 

Rodeo Dreams...

Rodeo Dreams.....Quilt Panel 

This was gifted to me last year...

It's time to put it up on the design wall

and see what shakes out...

I made some strip units in red and white

and sub-cut them and made a checker board...

I placed them around the edge as a possible

border treatment...

I paper pieced a few star blocks...

I like the denim fabric behind the stars...

This is what I have so far.

I plan to make a few cattle brand blocks,

including our brand...

This is the view this morning out our window...

the elk are sharing the pasture with our cows.

Baby calves are due in March.

More to Come !

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LuAnn Kessi 

Horses in Snow.....Top Done

The Quilt Top is complete

 

All 18 paper pieced snowflakes are done...

This measures 68 inches wide...

Once it is quilted and bound

it will hang in our living room.

Good to get this one done.

Now I can get to work on a few holiday gifts.

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LuAnn Kessi 

Snowflakes...

I was able to squeeze in some stitching and 

finished up the last of the snowflake blocks

 

Intricate piecing that could only be

done by paper piecing these blocks...

The snowflakes show up really well

against this putty colored background fabric...

Every snowflake is different...

18 snowflake blocks

It took 2 days to rip all the papers off

the back side of the blocks...

The inner border has been added to the panel...

Close up view of inner border...

sparkly snowflakes

The bottom snowflake border 

is stitched into place...

The top and bottom borders are on...

Hoping to get back out to the Thread Shed

soon and put the side borders on.

We have a new square bale feeder...

It holds a ton of hay in a single feeding.

The cows like it !

We weaned the baby calves last week.

Always hate to do that, but the mama cows

need a break before they have their new

calves in the spring.

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LuAnn Kessi