Wyoming...2020

 

August is our month to get off the ranch

and do some traveling...

We are spending time in Wyoming

I always travel with my Paul Harvey lap quilt...

This sweet girl is a pack mule

All ponies love the Cowboy

It is evening and the light is wonderful

We love Wyoming and tend to come back

year after year after year...

It is good to be in dry country

We traveled through Yellowstone Park...

The buffalo are magnificent...

We viewed more than 1,000 Buffalo

Pronghorn Antelope

Short Eared Owl

Golden Eagle

Getting away is wonderful...

When I take my quilt along,

I travel with a little piece of home...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Form Fitted Face Masks....

 

Fabric Face Masks

The child masks are FUN to create...

Pink Batik Heart Masks

A few boy themed masks

Face Masks for Women...

It is fun to dig around in the fabric cupboards

for scraps big enough to create masks...

for all those Kitty Lovers out there...

and for the Chocolate lovers...

Pretty Batik Hearts

If the scrap fabrics were big enough...

I turned them into masks.

For the Guys:

Flames...

this fabric reminds me of a reptile...

For the Wildlife Lovers...

Grizzly Bears, Elk and Wolves

To encourage children to wear masks...

Parent and Child size matching masks...

It was a FUN ride mask making...

After 160 masks, I think I have mask burn out...

I am done for awhile.

I do not have a pattern or tutorial for my masks, however, below is a link to a mask making video that is very similar to the way I make mine.  I add a nose wire.  You can also iron fusible interfacing to the lining of the mask for added protection.

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CLICK HERE for Mask Patterns

CLICK HERE for Ear Elastic

CLICK HERE for Nose Wires

I am ready to get back to stitching

Improv Quilts.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Summer....Catching Up with You

 

Hay season is behind us...

the winter's hay supply is safely tucked away

in the barns.

Canadian Thistle

Queen Ann's Lace

So what have I been up to?

Mask Making

I am well over 100 masks...

they seem to go out of here as fast as I 

can stitch them up!

I have been playing around with improv piecing

since April...

In June I put this little 48 x 48 

improv top together.

I decided I wanted it for a new lap quilt...

So I pulled off the borders:

and started adding more sections 

to make it longer.

I lead a Jello Printing Class today

for the Harlan Valley Quilters:

We used Versatex and Speedball printing inks

on the jello plates.

They gave us lots of open time,

especially in 90 degree weather.....eek!

We printed on white cotton fabric.

This was my teaching table...

I must have been busy...

these are the only images I captured all day!

That catches you up on my summer....so far.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Hay Season......almost over

All of the hay has been baled.

Now it is time to haul it out of the fields

to store it away until winter...

Pulling down the driveway here at home...

All of the barns have been stuffed full of hay...

we will begin piling the bales outdoors now

and cover them with plastic 

before it rains in the fall.

The goats came out of the barn to see what

all of the commotion was about...

The round hay bales are loaded with the tractors

onto 30 foot trailers...

They are storing the hay next to the barn...

I can see the hay bales stacked up

just outside the window of the Thread Shed

I can also see the cow barns across the river

from the Thread Shed window...

A few miles up river:

The Cowboy is hauling more bales 

out of the field.

The tractor can haul 2 bales at a time...

The hay bales are piling up...

Before the rain begins in September,

we will cover all of these stacks with plastic

to keep them dry until the hay is fed 

to the cows this winter.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Haying at Home....July 2020

The light was so beautiful last evening

I just had to capture a few haying images

and record a brief video.....enjoy !

Pulling down the driveway here at home...

It is unusual to make hay at our home place,

but we had so much grass this year

we had to mow it down...

Off in the distance, to the left of the barn,

you can see the cowboy baling hay

across the river...

The Cowboy is coming down the driveway

with the baler,

he will bale up our place tomorrow...

It was such a beautiful evening
here at home.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn