Horse Quilt Panels....

I have made several horse quilts over the years...

including a few horse panel quilts

 

This horse panel includes pieced borders

and intricate machine quilting.

"Giddy Up"

This horse panel includes a 

hand sewn english paper pieced hexagon

border treatment.

"Friends at the Fence"

This is a gorgeous horse quilt panel

that I pulled from the cupboard...

it is time to get it up on the design wall

and give it a go !

I am thinking....Bear Paw quilt blocks:

How yummy are all of those points !

These are time consuming to cut and piece...

but well worth the effort.

The lighter colored points

work just as well as the dark points...

I can make 2 Bear Paw blocks a day...

Time to get the blocks up on the design wall:

The brown fabrics in the bear paw blocks

really jump off of the Green Kale Grunge 

background fabric...

Here's an organization tip:

Bias Squares are so tedious to stitch...

I set myself up for success by staying organized.

I keep an ironing station to the far left of the

 sewing machine, a cutting mat and ruler station

 next to the machine.

I also use Bloc-Loc rulers 

to trim the bias squares.

I keep the Bloc-Loc rulers in this organizer...

It keeps the rulers upright where I can see them

and I spend less time searching around on the

 table under the fabrics for the rulers.

When not in use,  I store the Bloc-Loc rulers

in this snap bag...

They travel well in this bag.

This is another organizer I use on my

sewing table...

It keeps most of my rulers upright 

and easy to access,

as well as rotary cutters, scissors, pencils, etc.

It lives here on the sewing table

and keeps me organized and working efficiently,

which helps me enjoy my time in the Thread Shed.

I put a few more Bear Paw blocks on the wall:

I will need 16 blocks to go around 

the horse panel...

I better get to stitching !

p.s.  I found the ruler organizers at the thrift store,

but I am sure you can find them at 

any office supply.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Improv Houses....Quilt Top Done

 

The last two days I spent putting

these improv houses together...

all different shapes and sizes...

it was like putting a puzzle together,

challenging and FUN !

The black thickened dye scribble fabric

worked nicely for a border treatment...

it also brightened up the whole design...

Lots of movement in those borders...

I am thinking gray thread 

for the machine quilting...

It will blend with the dark and the light fabrics.

Basting and Quilting....Next

The bees are loving the sunflowers

just outside of the Thread Shed.

Enjoy what is left of our summer !

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LuAnn Kessi

Improv Houses.....Design Wall

Time to get the Improv Houses 

up on the design wall...

 

I had to get them up just to see if 

the sold red hand dyes

worked with the black X commercial fabrics...

The X fabric creates some texture...

The more houses up on the design wall,

the better I like it...

It has been great FUN incorporating 

my thickened dye surface design fabrics

into this project...

Over 40 houses on the wall so far...

Of course, I am already thinking about

and edge treatment...

I have several 1 yard pieces that I created

with black thickened dye...

I folded them up into border size strips...

Border Audition...

This is working !

This is what the outside of the Thread Shed

looks like today...

The Sunflower Quilt block hung on

the front of the Thread Shed

is covered up by all of the real sunflowers

now blooming...

Sunflowers, Pink Coneflowers, Brown Eyed Suzies

Sunflower

State Fair Zinnias

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LuAnn Kessi

Improv Houses....more houses

 

I spent some time at the wheel of my

sewing machine today...

I am stitching improv houses...

This is my original pull of fabrics...

mostly hand dyes and surface design fabrics

and a few commercial fabrics.

I pawed through the fabric cupboards

again today and found a few more fabrics

that might work for this quilt:

This is a new pile of darker black fabrics...

a mix of my hand dyed and commercial fabrics.

This is a new pile of white and black fabrics...

again a mix of my hand dyes 

and commercial fabrics.

This was my best find of the day:

I forgot this was in the fabric cupboard...

It is a Marcia Derse X Marks the Spot...

I will try this out as a background fabric.

This is my new and improved fabric stash

for the improv houses...

I am liking the Red X fabric...

I also like the darker black fabric...

Next time I get out to the Thread Shed

 I will put these new houses up 

on the design wall

and see if they get along with the

first improv house blocks I made.

More To Come !

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi