Focus on Fusing.......Leaf Shapes

I am enrolled in Melody Johnson's

Focus on Fusing Online Class...

Our third homework assignment is to create

leaf shapes...

I am using my hand dyed fabrics 

in this class...

I decided to jump ahead in the assignments and

create a fused quilt...

I chose a color story I wanted to work with 

and  began building a composition...

I added units created in the previous lessons...

Fusing liberates you to create a composition

that you cannot easily make 

with a pieced design...

I added a 2 inch border of black all the way 

around so that I have fabric to do a 

wrapped edge treatment...

The top has been machine quilted....

Back Side of Quilt Top

On the right is Fast 2 Fuse which is used in the 

wrapped edge treatment.

The black border fabric has been fused 

to the back side of the Fast 2 Fuse...

Red hand dyed fabric 

has been fused to the back...

This is the completed quilt

15 x 15 inches

CLICK HERE to see what Melody had to say about this quilt

You can view fused homework assignments

for this class by CLICKING HERE

You can view all of my fusing posts HERE

I will post my homework 

as I complete it each week.

You can check out Melody's class HERE

Every Friday Melody posts a 

new homework assignment.

 Melody is offering this as a FREE online class!

CLICK HERE:  to see My Quilts

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Focus on Fusing......Introducing Fused Shapes

I am enrolled in Melody Johnson's

Focus on Fusing Online Class...

Our second homework assignment is to create

fused shapes...

Strips......straight and curvy.

I plan to sub-cut skinny, long strips from 

the black and white units.

Squares, Triangles, Circles and X's

Spirals and Wavy Lines

I found it terribly relaxing to create these units

I am drawn to circles so had a play...

Confetti Circles on the Left

Sticks and Stones on the Right

I call this.....Ring Toss

This is my fusing set up...

Small cutting mat on the left,

Press Board with Release Paper 

and Iron on the right.

I listen to a book on tape and FUSE

to my heart's content.

Thanks Melody for so much Fusing FUN!

I will post my homework 

as I complete it each week.

You can check out Melody's class HERE

Every Friday Melody posts a 

new homework assignment.

 Melody is offering this as a FREE online class!

CLICK HERE:  to see My Quilts

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Focus on Fusing.......Fused Fabric

I am enrolled in Melody Johnson's

Focus on Fusing Online Class...

My fabrics have been dyed...

The hand dyes are all fused...

You can see the fusible paper 

on the back side of the fabrics.

I spent the day trimming off all of the un-fused

edges on the hand dyed fat quarters.

I need to be sure that the fusing goes all the way

to the edges of the fabric.

Lots of edge trimmings.

Rather than work with an entire fat quarter 

of fused fabric,

I am cutting off 3 inch strips to work with.

It took most of the day to get the 50 fat quarters 

trimmed and ready to work with.

The fabrics are prepped...

I am ready to begin creating!

I will post my homework 

as I complete it each week.

You can check out Melody's class HERE

Every Friday Melody posts a 

new homework assignment.

 Melody is offering this as a FREE online class!

CLICK HERE:  to see My Quilts

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Ralph....the Machine Quilting Kitty

It's Time for.....Pets On Quilts

Cat on Quilt Category

This is Ralph......the Quilting Kitty

Ralph lives at the Quilt Palace

Watch the video below to see 

Ralph machine quilting:

CLICK HERE to view lots more Pets on Quilts

CLICK HERE:  to see My Quilts

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Focus on Fusing.......Class Homework

I am enrolled in Melody Johnson's

Focus on Fusing Online Class...

This week I sorted through my hand dyes:

These are a few that might work for this class.

We won't be using wild hand dyes at first...

We will use calmer hand dyes like these:

I do notice that the majority of my hand dyes

read as medium values.......hmmm.

I need each color to have values from very light

to very dark......like this run of pink hand dyes.

I spent Tuesday dyeing primary and secondary

colors on the color wheel......48 fat quarters.

Today I washed and dried them.

Now I am ready to fuse.....ALL of them!

Melody prefers 

Pellon Wonder-Under 805  fusible web

This press will make short work of all that fusing!

This press has 7 times the pressing surface

of a regular iron.........wish me luck!

I will post my homework 

as I complete it each week.

You can check out Melody's class HERE

Every Friday Melody posts a 

new homework assignment.

CLICK HERE:  to see My Quilts

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi