Fantasy Fish....1

I need samples for a class I am

teaching in October...

Fantasy Fish

I spent the day in the Thread Shed

doing some class prep:

Fish Patterns

Fish Inspiration

I had more FUN pulling fabrics:

Pinks and Oranges

Blues

Black, White, Red

Earthy tones......Golds and Browns

Greens and Purples

Shiny Garment Fabrics

My first fish is in Orange and Pink Fabrics:

I took progress shots so you can see the fish come to life...

With Fantasy Fish...

you give yourself permission to use wild colors and patterns

The blue circle batik fabric makes great fish eyes

The fish is built on a teflon sheet:

I pressed the fish to fuse all the pieces in place...

The fish peels off the teflon as one unit fused together...

The fish is now ready to audition on background fabrics...

It was great FUN pulling background fabrics!

Background 1

Background 2

Background 3

Background 4

Background 5

Background 6

Background 7

Background 8

Background 9

Background 10

Background 11

Background 12

I think Backgrounds 9 and 12 might work.

I can decide that later...

I have lots more fish in lots more color ways to make!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Wedding...

The wedding was lovely...

a simple, country wedding here at home

for our son and daughter-in-law.

Wedding Star Quilt

Their wedding quilt kept my sewing machine humming along

for the last year...

Cake Table in the orchard

Sunset in the pasture

The bride in my bathroom......this is a stunning image!

The Junior Flower Girl and her doggie...

they stole the show coming up the aisle.

It was a lovely day here at home

surrounded by all the people we love.

I am anxious to get back to the Thread Shed

and introduce myself to my sewing machine!


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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Summer...

It is definitely summer here in Western Oregon...

The yearling cattle are quickly eating up any green grass

that is left in the fields...

It won't be long and we will be shipping out the yearlings...

I will miss them coming up to the yard fence in the mornings,

just barely visible through the fog.

My days have been spent in the hay fields...mowing hay...

see the red tractor in the very center of this image?

We are nearly done with haying. 

This was my last field to mow.

You can see me taking the photo in the top left of this image.

  My favorite guy is baling this field today.

I will be saying good-bye.....for awhile.

We are hosting our son's wedding here at home in July...

just 3 weeks away.....no time for blogging.

Gunnr wishes you all a summer filled with 

sunshine and smiles!

This is the last image I will share from 

my online Photoshop class...

Star Lily backlit from the setting sun while I was watering.

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LuAnn Kessi

Photoshop Elements....for Quilters

Last week in the Photoshop Elements online class

we learned to sharpen images.

How does this come in handy for quilting?

Let's say you are at a quilt show taking photos of

quilts that interest you....like this one:

When you get home to view them...

you can't see the machine quilting that you liked so much.

So....you crop the image.

Still can't see the machine quilting.

You lighten the image...

still can't see the machine quilting.

 

You crop in even closer....

still can't see the stitching very well at all.

Here I have used the unsharpened mask in PSE

and now I can see the swirls and plumes 

in the machine quilting.

If I am not at the sewing machine...

then I am behind my camera lens.

A lot of my images inspire my quilted textiles

and even become quilted textiles when the images 

is printed on fabric.

I took this image last year and saw the potential, 

but didn't know how to work with it to improve it...

I cropped the image......much better.

Using the levels filter in PSE.....it is lighter

Using the Hue/Saturation filter in PSE.....it is richer in color

Using the unsharp mask in PSE 

the bird's face is more in focus.

After I water the flower beds...

I love the way at the water beads up on the lupine leaves...

However, this image is too dark.

I lightened the image...

Improved the Hue and Saturation levels

Then used the unsharpened mask 

and the water drops are more in focus.

 I took this image at the aquarium last year:

Again, I knew this image had potential, 

but I couldn't make it any better.

In the PSE class I cropped it...

Then I sharpened it with the unsharpened mask.

All the fine detail of the jelly fish is in focus.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi