Neocolor Portrait.......Horse Herd

After herding yearling cattle this morning,

I decided to treat myself to an afternoon of creativity...

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This week I spent time importing my photography into Photoshop Elements.

I removed the color from the photos and printed them onto fabric.

This is a photo of a horse herd I took last year...

These are wild horses waiting for adoption from the BLM

The horses are colored and painted...

Just need to add some blue sky and clouds...

This is now ready to be basted and quilted...

I am hoping to get into the Thread Shed next week and get a few portraits under the needle !

This photograph was taken by my sister.

As soon as she sent it to me, I just knew I had to quilt it...

I had some time before dinner tonight to get some color on it.

I need to invest in dark brown Neocolors...

I am not happy with the reddish hair color.

CLICK HERE to view this Quilted

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CLICK HERE to view more Neocolor II Portraits

CLICK HERE to view Neocolor II Portrait Tutorial

This will be available as a Beginners Portrait Class this summer:

June 18, 2011

JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop

Philomath, Oregon

Have a great weekend!

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Drunkards Path

This is what's up on the Design Wall

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Drunkard's Path

Also known as:

Solomon's Puzzle

Old Maid's Puzzle

Rob Peter to Pay Paul

Wanderer in the Wilderness

I pulled these blocks out of the drawer

and put them up on the wall for inspiration.

I think I need a HIT of color during these

dreary days of late winter.

I will keep you posted on my progress...

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CLICK HERE to view my Drunkard's Path Baby Quilt

CLICK HERE to check out my Mixed Media Class in May 2011

CLICK HERE to view Painted Fabrics

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Screen Printing........ Frames

Today we built a few wooden frames for

Screen Printing

I am starting a new Surface Design Adventure:

These are the completed frames 10 x 14 inches

We watched a How-To-Video online...

Then got busy building frames.

The frames will need two coats of wood sealer to keep them from rotting.

They spend time under water when you clean them.

I plan to cover the frames with curtain sheers.

Kerr Grabowski's DVD suggested curtain sheers.

There are so many different ways to screen print.

I plan to try coating the screens with photo emulsion fluid and use my own photographic images.

I am also interested in trying

Kerr's Deconstructed Screen Printing technique.

This is my first attempt at Screen Printing.

I will try and take photos along the way so you can follow my progress.

Below are the resources that I am using...

CLICK HERE: How to Build a Screen Printing Frame

CLICK HERE: Screen Printing with Photo Emulsion

CLICK HERE: Deconstructed Screen Printing

CLICK HERE: Jane Dunnewold Screen Printing DVD

CLICK HERE: Kerr Grabowski Screen Printing DVD

CLICK HERE: Jane Dunnewold Art Cloth Book

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

Saturday we made our way over to the

Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

As always, I never leave home without my camera:

Great Horned Owl

The light was beautiful cascading over his shoulder

Sparky

This Bald Eagle has no flight feathers.

He has become an education bird at this rehab center.

These birds are larger than life.

Their colors are amazing.

Barn Owl

How adorable is this little bird.

We eventually made our way over to the Racoons:

They were happy to see Heath

coming into their cage with a bowl of food for them...

It was also time for Heath to clean their cage:

This is Heath

He volunteers here and enjoys the animals.

Don't tell Heath...

But I think the Raccoons were laughing at him while he was cleaning house for them!

I am so inspired by the volunteer work at Chintimini and the care that is given to more than 700 animals that are treated there each year.

The animals have inspired me to create textile art from some of the images I was able to capture with my camera.

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CLICK HERE: Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

CLICK HERE: Farm Life

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Quilting Anniversary.......Slideshow

It's March..... I am celebrating

24 years of Quiltmaking

I took my very first Rail Fence Baby Quilt Class

in 1987

I left class with a completed Quilt Top

I was so excited !

I went home and made lots more.

Here it is 24 years later...

Share My Quilting Journey:

Mary's River Quilt Guild

has invited me to be the Guest Speaker

July 28, 2011

7 pm

Members and Visitors are Welcome!

Please join me as my guest...

I will do a trunk show of my quilts.

Come see them in person.

Mary's River Quilt Guild

Benton County Museum

Main Street

Philomath, Oregon

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CLICK HERE to view My Life on the Farm

CLICK HERE to view HOME

CLICK HERE to view The Thread Shed

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full of Quilts,

LuAnn

Fabric Paper......Play Day

Fabric-Paper......Play Day

My friends came over today and we had a wonderful day playing!

We made sheets of Fabric Paper...

It was so much fun.....it was hard to quit!

This is a muslin fabric foundation.

Newspaper print words are glued down on top of that.

Colored tissue paper is glued down as the final layer.

This is a muslin fabric foundation.

Torn pieces of a road map are glued on top.

Cheesecloth is glued down as the final layer.

You can see from this blurry photo just how cool the road map looks.

This is a commercial butterfly fabric.

Colored tissue paper was glued on top.

This is a commercial chicken fabric.

Clothing Pattern pieces are glued on top.

This is a commercial butterfly fabric.

Colored tissue paper is glued on top.

This is a commercial fabric with tissue paper glued on top.

This is a muslin fabric foundation.

A gold metallic fiber and a cranberry red yarn are glued on top.

White tissue paper was glued down as the final layer.

This is a muslin fabric foundation with paper words glued on top.

Then it was covered with cheesecloth.

Then colored tissue paper was glued down to everything.

This is a muslin fabric foundation.

Found papers are glued down.

Cheesecloth is glued on top.

Tulip Spray Paint was used for the yellow center and green borders.

I added stenciled leaves to this piece of fabric paper after it dried.

We are working from the book

Stitch Alchemy

By: Kelli Nina Perkins

We are making the

Good Fortune Birds

on Page 78

The bird shapes will be cut out of the fabric paper we created today!

I will keep you posted on our progress...

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CLICK HERE: Fabric Paper Tutorial Video

CLICK HERE to view:  Good Fortune Birds

CLICK HERE to view My Art Quilts

CLICK HERE to view our Cattle Drive in the Snow

CLICK HERE to view my Cord Bound Edge Tutorial

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn