Sketch Book.....Background Fills

Background Fill Designs

from the Sketch Books...

I have been trying out a few filler designs

from Barbara Chapel's video:

Barbara Shapel was a guest speaker last year at

The Mary's River Quilt Guild

Philomath, OR

A few of her designs are new to me...

It's FUN to draw them out and see what I can do!

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A new Rooster in the Hen House:

We brought a new Sparky home...

Cock-a-doodle-doo

Sparky.....so handsome

You pretty bird

Sparky (in the center of the photo)

He is 3 months old

The hens are 5 months old

Hollyhocks blooming by the Thread Shed

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi

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Sketch Book......Leafy Vine Border

This Leafy Vine design

looks great in borders...

Leafy Vine

Leafy Vine

Stitched in Green Thread

Hyper-Quilted Veins in Gold Thread

Leafy Vine Border Quilting

Leafy Vine Border

Leafy Vine Border

Early Evening from the Back Yard

Spider Dahlia and Bumble Bee

Barred Rock Hen

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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Sketch Book......Fern Motif

In January I started piecing the Calypso Quilt

for our oldest son...

I started drawing FERNS in the Sketch Book:

My inspiration was Fiddle Head Ferns

that grow here in Western Oregon

You can view my mini FERN Tutorial

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FERN Quilting on the Calypso Quilt...

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 We've been weeding the flower beds...

The chickens just love helping out with the weeding...

Blades of grass were gobbled up in the blink of an eye...

Silver Laced Wyandott

Freckles has been allowed to graze in the yard...

not much green grass in the pasture this time of year.

Watering the flowers...

When you stand at just the right angle,

you can see the water spraying throughout the flower bed.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi

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Sketch Book......McTavishing

I glanced through all of the sketch books

and found a few pages of

McTavish style quilting...

McTavishing...named after Karen McTavish

is a background fill design:

S Curves and Hair Band Shapes

This version is curly and playful

Playful and whimsical

Straighter S curves....more serious 

Every time I draw this design.....it looks different.

I like that....it never gets boring.

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It's that time of the year...

Firewood Cutting Season....

Brad and Gunnr bringing home a load of logs...

Taking the logs out behind the barn...

This is our temporary wood lot for the next few weeks...

Just outside the Thread Shed is a

hydrangea tree in full bloom

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CLICK HERE to view:  Karen McTavish Quilting

CLICK HERE to view:  Karen McTavish Teaching

CLICK HERE to view: Sunflower Quilt Border

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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Buffalo Bull Fight......Video

This is an 8 minute video of a

Bison Bull Fight

in Yellowstone Park

August 2012

The Buffalo begin pushing each other around

3 minutes into the video

At one point the bulls are within 15 feet of our vehicle,

and my husband is worried they will cave in the side our pick up.

(I need to invest in a tripod so my video-ing

isn't so wobbly, but for now this is what I have)

Enjoy the Video:

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