Crows and Fence...

The fence work is complete...

Our 25 year old white fence has been rebuilt and

is sporting a sage green paint job!

It blends in beautifully with the surroundings,

just what we hoped for.

Remember these images from last week?

Crows...

The images are printing out beautifully on

white cotton sateen fabric.

The crows continue to hammer away at the pie cherry tree:

I have enhanced and saturated the color on these cherries

in the iPhoto program so I can use them as part of the

crow quilt...

The crows rest on the fence posts in the driveway

between rounds of munching cherries in the yard:

It is tricky to get a good image of a crow...

As soon as they see me, they screech loudly and fly off!

As long as the cherries hold out...

I will keep snapping away with the camera!

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See the original crow images CLICK HERE

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Hay Baler....Back in Action!

As you can see, the rebuilt baler is back in action:

It is pumping out 6 foot round bales like a champ!

To see this baler on FIRE:  CLICK HERE

On my way out to the Thread Shed this morning

I took a few photos of the flower beds:

 Daylily

Blue Hydrangea

Purple Hydrangea

That's enough blogging for now...

I need to get back out to the Thread Shed and get

the building prepped for new flooring.

We are hoping to install the new flooring when the

hay is all done!

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CLICK HERE to view:  Bubbles and Blooms Quilt

CLICK HERE to view:  Cow Pony Quilt

CLICK HERE to view:  Woven Sunshine Quilt

CLICK HERE to view:  My Trunk Show 2011

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Deconstructed Screen Printing.....the last of the screens

I had deconstructed screen prints batching

 the last few days so I rinsed them out today:

 At this point, they have been rinsed out in the sink...

 They are soaking wet hanging on the flower bed fence...

 they will look much different after a 

HOT machine washing...

 The finer details of the printing show up

better when they come out of the dryer.

This is what the screen looked like

BEFORE the printing:

The texture on this screen was created with a plastic

mesh screen and plastic wrap scrunched up and pressed on top.

Below are the printed images on cloth:

 All of the fabric images have been washed and dryed

at this point...

I used clear thickened print paste only.

No dye added.

This is the next screen before printing:

The texture on this screen was created with corrugated

cardboard and bubble wrap

Here are the printed images on fabric:

This is the next screen before printing:

The texture on this screen was created with a coffee cup cardboard

sleeve and plastic tubing

These are the prints on fabric:

This is the screen BEFORE printing:

The texture on this screen was created with round non-slip rubber

rings for the bath tub, metal hooks, paper clips, soda can tabs

These are the printed images on fabric:

I don't have the BEFORE screen for these

images on fabric:

This is the screen BEFORE printing:

The texture on this screen was made with a plastic grate 

used in a food smoker.

These are the printed images on fabric:

I don't have the BEFORE screen image:

These are the images printed on fabric:

This is the screen BEFORE printing:

The texture on this screen was created with a metal

screen tray used in a BBQ.

These are the images printed on fabric:

I printed 9 Deconstructed screens on about

4 yards of cotton fabric...

I get excited over the unknown...

You never know what a deconstructed screen

is going to produce until you take the 
printed fabric out of the dryer!

You can view more of my

Deconstructed Screen Printing Posts

HERE

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CLICK HERE to view:  Painting Fabric

CLICK HERE to view:  Paul Harvey Quilt

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Crows...

The pie cherry tree in our yard is ripe.

The crows have been perched all over the branches

munching on those tart cherries.

Each time I step outside with the camera, the crows fly away...

The photo below is the best I can get from inside the house,

through the dirty window:

No the photo isn't much to look at...

until I zoomed in, cropped out, enhanced in iphoto...

and look what I ended up with:

I am more than happy with this version of the crow photo.

I decided to work on this second image below:

 This is the same crow, but he has turned his head just a bit...

 Here is the first version....

I cropped in a bit tighter and like this one.

Then I went back to the first crow image...

 I cropped it a bit differently, and added more saturation.

I printed all 3 images on cotton sateen fabric

with the wide format printer:

I believe a crow quilt is in my future!

Summer has finally arrived here in 
Western Oregon.....Enjoy it!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi