Calving Season...

We are two weeks into calving season

here at the Kessi Ranch

The pastures are starting to fill up

with baby calves...

Once the calves are a week old, 

they start to gang up together and 

play tag....chasing one another

 all over the pastures !

This calf had its nose up in the air

trying to smell me when I was

taking the picture...

This mama is the babysitter...

She watches over a group of calves

while their mothers go out and graze for awhile. 

We will be calving for 8 more weeks

so there is lots more to come.

You can find cow and calf videos

on my Instagram.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi 

Paper Piecing Continues...

 

Between trips across the river to

check on the cows and calves

I have been stitching...

I have had this pattern for a few years

and wanted to give it a try...

This is the color story...

Two templates....4 of each are required

to complete the star block...

First two templates are paper pieced...

Four Templates....half the block done

It is FUN watching this come alive...

All 8 templates are paper pieced...

The last seam is on the diagonal...

Poof...the block is together !

This is what the back side looks like...

I am trying out different quilt blocks

to use in future quilt designs.

It is calving season here on the Kessi Ranch:

So much cold RAIN it is miserable,

but the calves just keep on coming...

We have been supplementing lots of calves

with powdered colostrum to warm them up

and get them nursing...

More To Come...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi 

Paper Piecing...

I have been in the mood to do some

Paper Piecing... 

I found this pattern online, printed it out

and got right with it...

It is a Quilt Cakes pattern on Etsy...

I rarely work with pinks, so this

is what I found in the fabric cupboard...

It has been many years since I paper pieced.

This is the back side of the block...

This was FUN!

Just love those pointy points !

So much FUN I just had to try another block...

This is a Liza Taylor pattern on Etsy...

I also have her book...

I rustled up some low volume fabric scraps

left over from a Christmas Tree quilt 

I made last year...

I am auditioning fabrics for the flower petals.

Also leftover scraps from the tree quilt...

This block went together quickly and easily...

I plan to add a stem with leaves...

I guess I am on a paper piecing kick this week

because I made another block...

I found this block online...

Ellen's Snowball PP Block...

Wow!

This one just blows me away!

Paper Piecing Perfection !

So satisfying...

We are just starting our calving season

and these blocks can be stitched between 

trips across the river to the calving barns...

It is amazing what you can get done a few

minutes here and a few minutes there.

We have two sets of twins so far...

This is Mary and her brother Lou

They have an excellent mother who has

already raised twins, so she knows

what she is doing.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi 

Mod TV Quilt...Test Patterns

 

Progress on the Mod TV Quilt

continues on Wednesdays...

A test card, also known as a test pattern or start-up/closedown test, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast.

I am making Test Pattern blocks...

They add a lot of FUN to the Mod TV quilt...

I have decided to add another row

to the quilt top to make it a bit wider.

More to Come next Wednesday !

Watch the new calf video HERE

Tour the Thread Shed HERE

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi 

Calving & Bear Quilt...

 Calving season has begun here at

The Kessi Ranch

This is our first baby of the year 2025...

Calf Number 1   Born March 1, 2025

She was a bit early so she is tiny and.....wild !

She runs laps around the barn like a race horse !

Out in the Thread Shed 

I am making some progress

on the Bear panel quilt:

I am stitching together Bear Paw Blocks...

I need one more border treatment

for the bottom of the Bear panel...

I'll put these up on the design wall

and see if they work...

Bear Paw border...

Mountains at the top,

Trees on the sides,

Bear Paws on the bottom...

Like a puzzle, I have to find a way to make

all of this fit together.

More to Come !

Watch the new calf video HERE

Tour the Thread Shed HERE

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CLICK HERE:  to see My Quilts

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi