Hello Spring Quilt...

 

Hello Spring Quilt

This is my 2026 Block of the Month

I am making the lap size quilt...

All of the pieces have been cut and are

organized and pinned onto this design board...

I am currently piecing the flower heads...

This is a 10 inch flower head...

All the flower heads are done...

I am ready to begin piecing the

leaf units...

The first flower head and leaf unit

are completed...

This measures 10 x 20 inches

My sewing table is ready for more stitching

next week when I meet up with my

local quilt group.

Lupine greet me when I enter

the Thread Shed...

Foxglove growing along side 

the machine shed at the barn lot...

Our little valley is overflowing with

Foxglove this time of year...

Don't you just love those little circles

inside each and every petal !

We are raking and baling the first

hay field today...

trying to beat the rain on Saturday...eek!

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LuAnn Kessi 

Black Eyed Suzy & Hay Raking...

 

This has been my Wednesday quilt project...

I have been pecking away at it since February.

The last time I shared images,

I had completed 6 flower blocks...

My pecking is paying off...

Every Wednesday I would add another flower

to the design wall...

All 16 flower blocks are done...

I have started the borders.

The Cowboy hooked up the hay rake...

The hay has been mowed for several days

and it is time to rake it into wind rows...

Here we go!

These foxgloves grow like weeds

all around the edges of the hay fields...

Gorgeous!

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LuAnn Kessi 

Moose Quilt & Hay Season...

 

This is our current living room quilt:

How much do I love this Moose !

He is hanging out on the quilt rack

in the living room...

The moose has a lot of purple in him

so I had to include purple in the color story...

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It is hay season here in Western Oregon:

The Cowboy has my little red tractor

hooked up to the hay mower...

I am mowing the first hay field today...

This will be my view for the rest of the day.

It takes about 7 hours to get this field mowed.

I have my head phones on listening to lots

of great music and lots of ravens 

to keep me company.

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LuAnn Kessi

Catching Up...

 

I recently attended a Quilt Retreat

here in Western Oregon

We had a zipper bag class and these

were my class samples...

Check out the super cute birdie zipper pulls...

I pawed through the fabric cupboard 

and found this donut fabric 

and it was perfect for zipper bags...

From January through May I was stitching

Surgical Scrub Caps

I have made 150 + caps

My son works with a surgical group and

asked me to make him a cap, so I found some

Superman, Batman, Spiderman 

fabrics in the cupboard.

I found a pattern online and away I stitched.

He wore them to work and they went viral.

Before I knew it I was making them for

guys and girls at the surgery. I found some

Wonder Woman fabric for the girls...FUN!

I know a lot more about 

surgical caps than I did a few months ago.

While I was stitching surgical scrub caps,

we were in Calving Season

February, March, April & May

This is our very last pregnant girl...Vicky Junior.

She is a first time heifer and taking her time!

Vicky....let that baby out !

Most of our calves are born black now

as we use Black Angus Bulls.

Check out Baby Sister with her new calf...

Can you say Milk Mouth ?

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LuAnn Kessi 

Rodeo Quilt.....Progress

 

I started the design work on the Rodeo panel

in February and I have been pecking away at it

on and off the last few months...

These paper pieced star patterns caught my eye

for a border treatment, but the 6 inch is too 

small and the 12 inch is too big...

I enlarged the 6 inch by 150%

and it finishes to a 9 inch block...just right.

It takes 4 sections to make one star block...

Here is the back side of the star block...

Star block ready to trim down to 9 1/2 inches...

It takes most of a day to finish a star block

from start to finish...

20 Star Blocks up on the design wall.

Now I have to figure out how to make the

red and white checker board inner border fit...

The last time I posted it was February

and winter here in Western Oregon...

As you can see through the Thread Shed window,

it is now Spring with lots of green grass

for the cattle to eat.

The last 3 months we have been calving and

are nearly done with calving season.

The cattle have been vaccinated and

it is now breeding season and the bulls

are in with the cows.

We mowed our first hay field yesterday.

I have been stitching most every day,

in between ranch work,

just not posting to this blog as much.

I will share more images soon.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi