Double Wedding Ring Quilt...

Double Wedding Ring Quilt

 

The quilting is done...

time to trim off the rough edges

and prepare it for a binding.

The edge is trimmed...

don't you just love those beautiful round circles !

I will take it home and begin the binding process.

The bias binding strips are cut...

I am stitching the binding to the

top side of the quilt by machine...

I hand stitched the binding to the back side...

The binding is all done...

The label is sewn on the back...

I came right in from the Thread Shed

and put it on our bed...

Nothing left to do but...

sleep under it !

Goodnight.

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LuAnn Kessi

Unbridled.....Horse Quilt

 

I am still making my way through 

a pile of fabric panels

I have purchased over the years...

This horse panel is called...Unbridled

As soon as I put this panel up on the design wall,

I just knew I wanted to include big stars

I could not find a pattern 

so I made a star block of my own...

The star is paper pieced, 

then I cut it into a circle

and it is turned edge appliqued to the quilt top...

I like the way this is looking...

so I made more stars...

At this point a gold Stonehenge fabric

borders the horse panel and

the star borders are stitched in place...

Time to audition the final border fabrics...

a distressed dark brown on the left...

a distressed white on the right...

The brown border works just right !

I plan to do some FUN machine quilting

on that wide brown border.

Just outside the Thread Shed...

The butterflies are enjoying the 

pink coneflowers...

We have had more butterflies this year

than I can ever remember 

visiting our flower beds...

More To Come !

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LuAnn Kessi

Little Houses...Table Runner

I met with my local quilt group

The Harlan Valley Quilters

We meet every Monday @ The Quilt Palace

 

I found this layer cake in a thrift store last year

and decided it was time to play with it...

I fused the fabrics and cut them into

house shapes and pressed them 

onto a white background fabric...

Then I did a little free motion 

scribble stitching

always a favorite of mine !

I used black thread to help define

the house shapes...

Then I cut squares from the leftover fabrics

and pieced them into borders...

First two borders stitched and pressed...

All 4 borders.....done !

Next Monday I will sandwich this up

and get to the machine quilting and binding...

More To Come !

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LuAnn Kessi

High Desert Mule Deer...#2

In May I created two of these

Mule Deer Panel Quilts... 

I finished the first one and 

gave it away as a gift...

I just finished the quilting on the second one...

I machine quilted it on my

Sweet Sixteen sit-down long arm...

I changed thread colors several times

to match the colors in the quilt...

It is so satisfying cutting off the rough edge,

stitching on the binding and hanging sleeve...

Here it is hanging in the living room.

Here are the first 3 blooms on the

Black Eyed Suzy plant....

The Day Lilies are blooming...

The Orange Cone Flowers are showing off !

The big lime Hosta is blooming too.

We are putting hay in the barns today...

no sewing for me.

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LuAnn Kessi

Farm & Garden...

Here it is summer...

and I haven't even posted Spring images !

 

This is in the backyard by the guest house...

Whiskey barrels make great plant stands.

The Wisteria vine really put on a show...

Wisteria blooms...

More whiskey barrels by the grape arbor...

Check out the size of the lime hosta...

We tore out all of the rhodies in front of the house

last fall and are going 

low maintenance flower beds.

I am still looking for landscape rock to fill in

the flower bed with the whiskey barrels.

We removed all of the iris from this flower bed

in the front yard last fall.

This spring we planted a few new plants

and added planter boxes for flower seeds...

The Cowboy built me  Cowboy Boxes

to plant flower seeds in the Spring...

He burned our brand in the side and hammered

on a few horse shoes.

The Cowboy also built this bird house

that the Tree Swallows nest in each Spring...

Also growing in front of the house

are calla lilies blooming...

Calla Lily blooms...

They are so elegant...

On the other side of the yard is my Thread Shed

and off to the right is the Hen House,

off to the left is our little red barn...

We also removed rhodies from the left side

of the Thread Shed and replaced

them with whiskey barrels and planters...

Another ornament in the yard is

my red tractor...

The Cowboy hooked up the hay mower...

I have spent the last several weeks inside

the cab of this tractor...mowing hay.

I do love to mow hay...

I find it very relaxing.

They hay fields have all been 

mowed, raked and baled...

We are now loading the hay bales on trailers

and hauling it to the barns for winter storage.

I will soon have time to get back to

my sewing machine.....FUN !

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LuAnn Kessi