Improv.....Technique 3

I am playing with a 

stitch and flip improv technique...

I pawed through my scrap bag and picked out 

all of the blues

that I thought would work together and

sliced them up into triangles....

I had a half yard piece of this white fabric

leftover from a table runner I made last month...

I cut it into 3 1/2 inch squares...

I think there are maybe 70 squares here.

Then I started piecing triangles

onto one corner of each white square:

With uneven triangles,

it was easy to get a wonky look.

Then I started playing around with

a few of the stitch and flip squares:

I am liking it !

Then I added additional triangles

to the center of the block:

Oooh....how FUN is that !

I have not pieced this together...

I want to play around with other design options

and see where it takes me.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Solar Bathing.....Turkey Vultures

On the way home from the Cow Barns

this morning, the turkey vultures

were  in a tree solar bathing

The sun was just coming up

and burning off the fog...

These birds are Super Cool !

I was able to capture them on video...

Enjoy!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Improv....Technique 2

I am working out of my scrap bag today...

I want to try creating Improv Flying Geese...

The goose rectangle is cut 5 1/5  x  3 1/2 inches

The background triangles can be cut from a 5 

inches square or whatever triangles 

you have in your scrap bag.

I had to really work at getting these 

wonky shaped.

Do you see that pile of scraps

leftover from making the flying geese?

When you are not looking...

that pile of scraps breeds !

That pile of scraps turns into...

Baby Improv Flying Geese !

These were lots of FUN!

CLICK HERE for the Improv Flying Geese Tutorial

by 42 Quilts

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Melted Crayon.....Printing

This is a melted crayon print on fabric...

Here it is sandwiched together with batting...

Let's lay down some thread:

Aquamarine Rayon Thread

Scribble Stitching

So FUN and so relaxing

I switched over to white thread

to quilt the background area

Back side

This is just the kind of FUN I was after today !

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Melted Crayon Printing

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Improv....Technique 1

Improv.....Technique 1

2 rectangles:

7 x 12 inches each

Slice in half on the diagonal....random cuts

Cut a strip of fabric and 

insert between the rectangles

At random intervals, slice up the sewn rectangles

Now the fun begins...

twist and turn the strips

try out different lay outs...

this is the third layout....hard to decide

I settled on this lay out of the strips...

stitched them together and trimmed the edges.

This improv technique was great FUN!

This is the tutorial I used:  CLICK HERE

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This is our newest set of twin calves:

Number 46 is a heifer, Number 47 is a bull calf.

Their mama doesn't have enough milk for two.

After she nurses them, we supplement them with

half a bottle of calf milk replacer.


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LuAnn Kessi

Boer Goats.....our weed eaters

Goat Barn

Early morning sunshine burns off the fog.

We have a small herd of boer goats:

Little Lotta and Little Louie

He looks just like his mama.

Lucy and Little Lexy

She looks just like her mama.

Lily and Mini Me

Yes, each mama has a baby that is her twin.

They spend most of the day 

eating blackberry vines

along the river banks.

Now that it is calving season,

we spend most of our time across the river

at these two calving barns below:

We have 50 calves on the ground so far.

Several sets of twins.

We are enjoying tulips blooming in the yard.

Enjoy today's goat video:

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi