Paul Harvey........in Yellowstone

While you have been enjoying my Sketch Book posts 

the last two weeks...

We have been in Yellowstone National Park

visiting our son...

He is working for the Fish and Wildlife 

department this summer.

It was a great excuse to go see him....and the park!

You can see that my Paul Harvey quilt came along to Yellowstone too!

I never leave home without it.....and the camera.

We have visited the park a dozen times over the years and enjoy seeing all of the wildlife.

This year I became infatuated with the RAVENS.

A raven quilt is definitely calling to me.

I brought along my featherweight 221 

and pieced in the evenings.

I filled up several pages in sketch books while traveling.

I will share them with you in the coming days.

For now I am doing non-quilting tasks like unpacking all of the camping gear, washing laundry, going through mail and editing photos.

More to come...

Enjoy the rest of your SUMMER!

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CLICK HERE:  Adventures in Art Quilting

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full of Traveling,

LuAnn Kessi

Sketch Book......Zentangle Style Designs

These are my most recent drawings

from the Sketch Book...

They have a Zentangle look to them.

To me, it is doodling...very relaxing:

Long, skinny triangles...

fill them in with anything.

Separate the page with horizontal lines...

then fill each area in with anything you like.

 This was a lot of fun to draw out:

Draw out a long loopy line......then trace back along that line

about a half inch away from it.

This gives you lots of odd shaped background sections

that you fill in with anything you like.

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CLICK HERE to view: Quilting in the Dark 1

CLICK HERE to view: Black Light Quilting

CLICK HERE to view: Quilting in the Dark 2

CLICK HERE:  Free Motion Quilting Tutorials

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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Sketch Book....Background Fillers

Here are a few more background fill designs

from the Sketch Book...

I enjoyed drawing the long flowing organic lines

in this design...

Circle shapes are always happy...

Another design with an organic feel to it...

These have a modern feel to them...

A plume design...

This fills a background very quickly....curls and leaves

Swirls with plumes around them...

These designs can be used as background fillers, in border areas,

a central motif with a filler added around them.

CLICK HERE to view: Victorian Feather Quilting Tutorial

CLICK HERE to view: McTavish Quilting Tutorial

CLICK HERE to view: Border Fill Design Tutorial

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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Sketch Book.....Border Designs

Here are a few more Border Designs

from the Sketch Book:

CLICK HERE to view: Loops and Sashing Designs

CLICK HERE to view: Sashing and Curling Ribbon

CLICK HERE to view: Echoed Lines and Swirls

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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Sketch Book......Botanical Designs

I am inspired by nature...

Here are a few Botanical designs

from the Sketch Book:

Simple Leaf Shapes with echo meandering...

Leaves with more vein lines...

I enjoyed drawing all of these graceful lines...

Ferns

 I saw this design in an elevator:

This is what the carpet in the elevator looked like...

It looks good vertically and horizontally.

CLICK HERE to view: Ribbon Border Video Tutorial

CLICK HERE to view: Loops in Border Video Tutorial

CLICK HERE to view: Caterpillar Filler Video Tutorial

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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The Hen House

Sketch Book.....Background Fillers

Here are a few background fill designs

from the Sketch Book...

This has a flowing, organic look to it.

I draw out random, wavy, vertical lines.

Then I fill circle shapes between the lines.

This design would look good in a quilt with

a river on it.

I like to do bubble or pebble quilting:

Sometimes I fill the bubbles in with different shapes and lines.

At the top of the page are all the different designs I used

in the bottom portion of the page.

This design combines bubbles and swirls:

I would consider all of these beginner level designs.

Give them a Try!

 This motif is called:  Cry Baby Meander

I have stitched it out on these

Orange Zipper Bags.

CLICK HERE to view:  Cry Baby Meander Video Tutorial

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi

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The Hen House

Sketch Book.....

More Inspiration from

the Sketch Book...

Drawing quilting designs on paper

reinforces them into your muscle memory...

When you can comfortably draw them out on paper,

then go to the machine and give them a try.

Some of us are visual learners...

Here are video tutorials to show you how these

designs are stitched out on a quilt surface:

CLICK HERE to view:  Berries & Bananas Design

CLICK HERE to view:  Circle Echo Meander

CLICK HERE to view:  Branching Curled Filler

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Brought to YOU By:

The Hen House