Portrait Quilts.....A Blast from the Past

Let's go back 10 years...

I was having lots of FUN creating

PORTRAIT QUILTS 

Image of Lilly

Close Up View......Lilly

The fabric surrounding this portrait is 

my hand dyed fabric that I screen printed on.

Machine quilted.

My Favorite Cow and her calf...

Finished Quilt

I use Neocolor II Crayons on cotton fabric

Ram

I took a photo at the Oregon State Fair.

It made a great subject for this portrait quilt.

Kindra

Lilly

A herd of Wild Horses

This is yet to be quilted.

Captain America and Devn

This is yet to be quilted.

The Cowboy unloading hay

This is yet to be quilted.

Gunnr

This portrait quilt was included in the

2012 Quilting Arts Calendar

Gunnr with his portrait quilt

Rose Portrait Quilt.....in progress

Orange Zinnia Portrait Quilt

Close Up View.....metallic threads

The Neocolor II is applied to the cotton fabric,

then water is painted over the Neocolor II

which creates vibrant colors...

CLICK HERE to watch me create this Zinnia quilt

Thanks for sharing this great trip 

down memory lane!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Calving Season....2018

It's official...

Calving Season has begun here @ Kessi Farms

Look what we found at the cow barn 

this morning...

Calf Number 1

How cute is this little bull calf 

standing by his mama?

The low man gets to bed the barns...

it looks like that is me.

I use the motorcycle to transport straw bales to

all of the barns.

Double Take

Cow Portrait Quilt

By: LuAnn Kessi

I created a video of our morning:

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Weaning Calves...

It is a cold and wet morning here in

Western Oregon

We are weaning calves today...

First I thought I would show you a

cow portrait quilt I created a few years back:

Double Take

Created By: LuAnn Kessi

Here it is under the needle

This is one of our Cow and Calf pairs...

the calf is a chip off the old block

We live in the coastal mountain range

of Western Oregon

Mary's Peak has a fresh blanket of snow 

this morning.

This is our view as we head out 

to round up the cattle.

Our cattle ranch was homesteaded in 1911...

5 generations have lived and worked here.

 We have rounded up some of our

young cattle this chilly, wet morning...

The cows and calves will be 

ear tagged, wormed and vaccinated

3 year old mama cows

8 month old calves

I took lots of video during the day and 

edited it down to a few minutes.  

CLICK BELOW to watch LIVE

how our day went with the cattle.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Photos…..to Fabric

Get our your camera…

Go from Photo…..to Fabric!

Dorset Ram Sheep

Neocolor II Crayons

Full Curl Quilt

Gunnr

Gunnr Quilt

Lilly

Lilly…….Day Dreaming Quilt 

Cow and Calf Pair

Double Take Quilt

Learning to Fly Quilt

Lilly

Suzy Quilt

Wild Horses

Devn and her dog Captain America

Captain America Quilt

My son and his turkey

Turkey Boy quilt

Old School Quilt

This is hauling hay the Old School style…..by hand!

I hope I have inspired you to get out your camera and turn

your images into Portrait Quilts.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi