Sunday, July 10, 2016

Somebody likes Pancakes...



Do you remember watching me

create this pancake quilt?


Pancake Quilt

aka....Orange Peel or Pumpkin Seed Quilt




The Pancake Quilt has found a home...


















I derived a great deal of joy from creating this

Pancake Quilt...





Somebody likes pancakes just as much as I do!






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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Zinnia Quilt......Dyeing the Fabrics



I am inspired to create a Zinnia Quilt...



This is a State Fair Zinnia that is growing

in our flower bed right now.




I am a big fan of Melinda Bula


These are 2 of her Zinnia Quilts





That's all the inspiration I need to get me going!




Today I sorted through the MX dyes:


Red and Pink MX Dyes





I have almost no pink hand dyes.

I have lots of greens for the leaves.




The table is set for FUN:


Half yards of dyers cloth is soaking in soda ash.






An electric hand mixer does a great job

of completely mixing up the dye powders.




After a couple of hours of measuring and mixing:


16 dye pots batching in the sunshine!




The low water immersion technique 

gives the fabric textures that will look more

 natural for flower petals:







Once haying season is over...

Zinnia Quilt here I come!





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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi


Monday, July 4, 2016

Hay Making......Photography



Day 10




My camera gets a good work out 

in the hay fields...






When the light is just right...

I jump off the tractor to make a picture!






I combine work with play...






In front of the bull barn is a

round hay bale feeder...






We put the feeders around the round bales

in the winter to feed the cattle.




We are in the third hay field today:


This is what the field looked like this morning

before we began baling the hay...






5pm tonight...

the field is all baled up






I spent the next hour chasing the light...

to make just the right images with my camera.






Photography.....it's all about the light!



We are expecting rain this week,

so hay making is put on hold until the

weather clears up.


Maybe I will hear 

the sweet hum of a sewing machine,

instead of the roar of a tractor,

for the next few days.




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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi


Sunday, July 3, 2016

Hay Making Video.....2016



Day 9


Life in the hay field continues...




It is a gorgeous day here in Western Oregon

in the coastal mountain range.






The cowboy is on the tractor today baling hay.

If you look closely in the rear view mirror...

you can see the barn.






Here is a closer image of the barn.





 Here is a long shot of the barn:


The cowboy is making progress baling.

He will be moving over to the 

third hay field soon.



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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Hay Season......Flowers



Day 7


I was hoping to show you lots and lots

of round bales in the hay field...


Instead I am showing you our broke down baler




While things have slowed down in the hay field,

I am heading home to water the flowers:


The little yellow building is my Thread Shed






Just to the right is the little red hen house






There is a tiny blue and white trailer house

in front of the thread shed...

Tiny tree swallows are peeping in there.




Just behind the thread shed is the barn:


Our mustang pony, Dollar lives there.




Just behind the thread shed is a hay field:


This is the first field I mowed last weekend.

The cowboy baled it up a few days ago.



Growing on the patio is a Passion Flower:


These are the coolest blooms ever!






The passion flower vine grows up the post on the patio.




On the other side of the yard is the guest house:


Hollyhocks grow along side the guest house...






Hollyhocks











Hollyhocks




Behind the guest house is a flower bed:


Lots of rusty metal yard art here.




In front of our house is another bird house:


This is a 2 story bird house the cowboy made for me.






Lots of peeping from baby tree swallows

that live in this house!




9 hours later...


We made a trip to Portland and back 

to fetch parts for the round baler...

The cowboy has repaired it.

I am hoping to show you lots of round bales soon!







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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi