Textile Paint.........Play Day

On Mondays I spend the day with my local quilt group

A few of us decided to play with textile paints and create some surface design on commercial fabrics

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The table is set.........we are ready to play

My aunt, Donna Irons, is here from Idaho

She is a traditional quilter and has never dabbled in surface design

Well.......she did today!

Maple Leaves by Donna Irons

Linda played with green and pink paint on these oak leaves

Anny Donna's Maple Leaves

She said, "This is so much fun!"

Oak Leaves by Linda

I played with light paint colors...on a very dark blue fabric

It was an experiment to see if the images would show up well enough on the dark fabric

Dark Blue Batik Fabric

Pearl White Checker Board Background

Gold & Green Birch Leaves

This is a piece I started in March...

I added a few more leaves today.

This is a great commercial background fabric...

Wish I had more of it.

This is the last piece I worked on today...

Kathi's two painted pieces

The rusted fabric takes the paint very well.

The results of our play day...

Flowering Cherry Tree Blizzard

This is what I saw when I pulled down the driveway tonight

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Images from Today...

I thought I would catch you up on a few things I have posted about in the past...

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Those bed frames that I have been painting...

We put a few, to act as a fence, in the front flower bed.

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Pansies

Bed Frame Fence

Flower bed in front of the house...

The deer having been pruning our newly planted burning bushes!

We had to get serious about putting up barriers around them.

These seem to be doing the trick...

This is how Gunnr spends his day...

Chicken Patrol

We are spraying with copper every 7 days to suppress the "Fire" bacteria which is slowly destroying the flowers.

When the weather reaches into the 70's, the bacteria will become dormant, and the flowers have a chance of surviving into the summer months....

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This garden ball seems to be inspiring a quilt....

It would be fun to free motion quilt all over this!

Garden Art

Fiddle Head Ferns

Kathi's Garden Art

The "Fire" Bacteria has spread from the Tulips to the Asian Lilies and now to the Iris bed. You can see on this leaf how it destroys the leaf, and eventually the entire plant.

We continue to spray with the copper and remain optimistic...

An Iris bloomed today...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Out on a Limb...

I rarely post about non-quilt related days...

Just thought you might like to see why I never made it out to the Thread Shed today...

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My favorite guy decided it was the perfect day to trim the trees in our front yard.

Watch out below...

Now....the real work begins....Clean Up!

My favorite guy and my favorite rusty pick up come in handy to get this mess cleaned up.

We stuffed as many limbs as we could on the back of the pick up...

Yes, there is a pick up under there somewhere...

Ahhhh......all cleaned up!

Now when we look out our front windows, we can see the yard!

This is why I didn't play in the Thread Shed today.

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LuAnn

Suzy Quilt Pattern & Cattle Drive...

Suzy

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I'm not sure if Suzy approves of the new pattern?

She doesn't seem too interested in my new quilt design...

I think she would be happy if there was a real hot dog in front of her!

This might end up on a quilt...

Time to move the cattle to a different pasture

Moving cattle to the pasture by the Harlan Barn

About 2 miles down a gravel road

This cow was spooky and didn't like my camera...

At the back of the herd is my father-in-law bringing them along.

It was a beautiful evening to be out on the town!

This is as close as we get to a...

Harlan Traffic Jam

The very last cow decided to take a short cut...

through the neighbor's field!

My father-in-law had her outta there in no time!

The 2 mile cattle drive followed along the Big Elk River

Main Street

Harlan, Oregon USA

Nobody minds if you bring your cattle down main street.

How pretty as they pass under the lilac bush

First few cow and calf pairs across the bridge

They are almost to the new pasture...

This cow and calf look beautiful under the lilac bush

The last of the herd across the bridge

My husband and father-in-law at the tail end of things.

The first few cows and calves have made it to the pasture

The last few cows and calves through the gate...

Yes, it was a beautiful evening to drive cattle...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn