Double Wedding Ring Quilts...

Spending time today with my 

Double Wedding Ring Quilt…

I should say…..the many pieces 

of my Double Wedding Ring Quilt!

I need to complete 199 football units 

for a queen size quilt top…

My dearest friend Linda is also torturing herself 

with a DWR Quilt

Linda is spending the day cutting more pieces…

I am spending the day assembly line sewing little pieces…

Wish us LUCK!

Even though it is the first day of autumn…

We enjoyed our morning coffee outdoors

We watched the sunrise from the back yard…

The sun is coming up over Mary's Peak

Gunnr and the new pony, Dollar….

are become friends at the fence.

The flower beds don't know it is autumn….

just as beautiful as they were all summer long!

The morning glory vines 

are putting on a show this morning!

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I am using Sharlene Jorgenson's DWR templates

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Raffle Quilt…..Ready to go under the Needle

I spent the morning 

preparing this raffle quilt for machine quilting…

505 Spray Baste……the only way to baste for me

Scrappy Binding ready to go…

Extra leftover backing fabric for the hanging sleeve…

Love the Glide thread!

Linen for the top thread…

Cream for the bobbin thread…

I decided to quilt my big leaf vine on the vertical rows

 of the quilt with Linen color thread...

After the vines are quilted, 

I will go back in and stitch horizontal lines

between the vines.  This will press down the background 

and make the vines pop out…

Here are some Big Leaf variations from my Sketch Book:

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I am always happy to share a bit of inspiration with you!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

On the Road…

Traveling……Quilter Style

I have my Quilt Wrangler with me…

We are traveling through the Pacific Northwest  

from Oregon to Washington state…

Having FUN at a hat shop…

I never leave home without some kind of a

take-a-long quilt project…

Apple Core Quilt

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We followed onion trucks down the road...

We stopped for the onions along the road side 

that fell off the trucks.

Gunnr loves to travel…

Having FUN at a county fair…

Love those sheep blankets…

The blankets keep the sheep clean….

before they go into the show ring

Petting Zoo…..Llama

Chuck Wagon

County Fair……. Quilt Exhibit

Windmill Farm along the Columbia Gorge

Paul Harvey Quilt at the Windy Flats

Paul Harvey is my personal lap quilt. It keeps me warm when I am on the couch at home, and it also travels with me everywhere I go. I sleep with this quilt when we are in motel rooms while traveling from state to state. It just makes an overnight stay a bit more like home, and I sleep better cuddling up with it.

Yes, I named my quilt "Paul Harvey" after the radio announcer 

that tells us "The Rest of the Story."

This quilt started out as a class kit in Idaho. When I returned home to Oregon I realized all of the fabrics were not in the kit. I waited months for the quilt shop to send the missing fabrics......but it never happened.

I eventually found fabrics on my own and incorporated them into the quilt top.

 The border fabric came from Canada.

This quilt took so much longer to complete than I had anticipated. After awhile I began to feel like it would never be done........when would I see....."The Rest of the Story."

I eventually began to refer to this quilt in progress as my Paul Harvey quilt.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi