Color Blast....from Nature

Here is your....Color Blast for the day !

Tulips

Just outside the back door...

Red and Yellow...

what a dynamic color story !

I get a burst of energy just seeing these tulips !

Just outside the front door...

Yes, more tulips

The flowering cherry trees 

are also in full bloom

each year with the tulips

Flowering Cherry Tree...

as the buds open up and the white flowers

begin to bloom,  it reminds me

of popcorn popping

Western Oregon wishes you a

colorful Spring 2020

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LuAnn Kessi

Improv....Technique 5...continued

I am finishing up the Pick Up Stix blocks

I had enough of the marbled background

fabric to cut out 30 blocks...

You design each block....as you go

15 blocks stitched....half way there

30 Pick Up Stix Blocks

These are FUN and a great way to use

up some of those fabrics in your scrap bag.

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LuAnn Kessi

Improv.....Technique 5

I am trying out another improv technique

Pick Up Stix

I pawed through the scrap bag and pulled out

my Marcia Derse fabric scraps...

these are so FUN and have a grunge look...

I found this marble/stone like fabric

in the cupboard...

I had enough to cut 

30 squares @ 6 1/2 inches...

I cut the Marcia Derse fabrics into 

1 inch strips...

It is now time to cut into the squares and

insert these strips...

This is the first pick up stix block...

I have lots more blocks to piece.

I will post again when the blocks are done.

We have been calving for 6 weeks now

and have 51 calves so far.

Here is some cuteness for you:

A beautiful heifer calf...

she is a keeper.

Golden Girl has a bull calf

that looks just like her !

We call this heifer calf...Beauty



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Give' em a try.....they are FUN !

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LuAnn Kessi

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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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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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!

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LuAnn Kessi