traditional quilts

Reflected Harmony....DONE ! from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I started piecing this quilt a year ago...

Rhapsody in Reds fabric collection

It is now quilted and bound and...

on our bed !

I pieced part of it in Oregon

and part of it in Idaho...

I stitched the binding last week

and put the label on the back today...

We can officially sleep under it tonight !

Brookie just couldn't resist posing

on the new quilt !

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LuAnn Kessi

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under fabulous finishes , reflected harmony quilt , traditional quilts

Autumn Panel Quilt... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Just one border left to stitch together...

At this point, I ran out of the

yellow background fabric...

Luckily a quilt shop in Tennessee

had a supply of this 9 year old fabric !

The final yellow border is stitched on...

I have the strips cut for the final borders...

I am calling this autumn quilt panel.....DONE !

Now, I need to paw through the fabric

cupboards and find something for a backing.

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LuAnn Kessi

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under design wall , panels , traditional quilts

Autumn Leaf Panel....Borders from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

24 Leaf Blocks have been pieced...

I am running low on the

yellow background fabric...

I have enough yellow to complete the

leaf border on the right...

Not enough for the outside border

that goes around all of the leaves.

This is fabric purchased 9 years ago...

I was lucky to find more online...

Now, we wait for it to arrive in the mail.

We are still in the middle of calving season

here @ the Kessi Ranch

We have been averaging about 7 calves a week

since we started in February...

Over 40 calves on the ground so far...

I ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under cattle , cows , design wall , farm , panels , traditional quilts

The Favor... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I am spending the day machine quilting...

I work on a Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen

This isn't my quilt...

I am doing this machine quilting as a favor.

The maker of this quilt top chose the fabrics

from my fabric cupboard,

then asked me to cut it into squares...

She put the squares up on the design wall

and arranged them to her liking...

She sat down at her sewing machine

and stitched the squares together.

I helped her measure for the borders.

I cut them and she stitched on the borders

and completed the quilt top.

Christmas Break ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under binding , free motion quilting , machine quilting , tips , traditional quilts

Autumn Leaf Panel....Progress from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Autumn Leaf Panel on the design wall:

I need 6 more maple leaf blocks

to fill in around the border...

Design boards keep me organized

when I am piecing quilt blocks...

It has been FUN using landscape fabrics

to design the maple leaves...

During the dreary, cloudy, gray

winter days, these bright colors

make me happy !

I have enough maple leaf blocks...

I need to add sashing strips between the

leaves and make this whole thing

fit together.....more to come !

Pretty Heifer Calf

Eloise...a real beauty !

I call this photo....The Babysitter:

The mama cows have all ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under design wall , panels , traditional quilts

Autumn Quilt Panel... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

A gorgeous autumn quilt panel...

These panels are so beautiful

and hard to resist when you see them

at the quilt shops...

especially when you already have a big stash

of landscape fabrics in your cupboard at home

that will compliment them:

I cut up a bunch of squares from the

landscape fabrics and started to

build maple leaf blocks...

This is an excellent quilt block reference...

Quick & Easy Block Tool

Directions for quilt blocks in 5 sizes !

It feels good to be using up some

of these stash fabrics !

Here come the leaf blocks:

Here is a maple leaf ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under design wall , panels , traditional quilts

Moda Love Charm Quilt... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

How FUN is a Charm Pack !

In one little charm square package,

you get an entire fabric line !

This charm pack is called...Flower Power

This is a FREE pattern from Moda Fabrics

CLICK HERE for the tutorial and pattern

You can make this with layer cakes,

charm squares or mini charm squares.

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LuAnn Kessi

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under charm squares , traditional quilts , tutorial

Long Horn Sheep......Quilt Panel from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

How gorgeous is this...

Hoffman Fabrics

Big Horn Sheep panel...

The fabric on the right is from

Northcott Fabrics

and coordinates beautifully with the sheep...

I decided on a simple border treatment

of small blocks set on point...

all of these fabrics are from different

textile manufacturers,

they go together so nicely.

I dug through the cupboards and

couldn't come up with anything for

a backing fabric...

I ordered a backing fabric

so the quilting is on hold until it arrives.

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added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under design wall , panels , traditional quilts

Cougar Quilt... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

In between trips to the calving barns

to check on the mama cows...

I have been doing a little stitching !

Cougar Panel by Hoffman Fabrics 2018

This has been hanging around for years...

it is time to do something with this.

I pulled some fabrics from the cupboard

for a border treatment...let's see what happens.

I am thinking...Star Blocks

I do love the orange grunge background fabric...

I haven't done a lot of traditional, precision

piecing the last 10 years...

but, it came right back to me!

These star blocks are lots of FUN !

The more ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 1 month ago. under design wall , panels , traditional quilts

Reflections of Autumn.....Quilt Top DONE from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I started this quilt in November...

Reflections of Autumn

This is what it looked like in December...

( It is my Monday project )

By January the quilt top was complete...

It wasn't big enough for the bed...

so I added 2 additional borders...

It now measures 90 x 90

My favorite part of this quilt is this

gorgeous wide border of leaves...

It is now February and I found this beautiful

gold backing fabric 108 x 108...

Machine quilting can begin !

We were able to get out and do some

traveling along the rugged Oregon Coast

Port Orford, Oregon

It ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 2 months ago. under cattle , cows , design wall , farm , reflections of autumn quilt , traditional quilts , travel

High Horses.....Quilt Top DONE from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I started this Horse Panel Quilt top

in September...

I was so happy to finish it and get it off

the design wall that I forgot to get a photo,

so here it is on the ironing board...

It took a few weeks to cut and piece

all of those Bear Paw blocks in the borders...

I put the final mustard yellow border on it

and I am calling it done!

Actually, I am calling it

High Horse

Need to find a backing for it.

Look what Santa left under the tree:

Massage Chair Pad

After a few hours of ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 4 months ago. under horses , tips , traditional quilts

Catching Up With You... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

We are still here !

I have been spending a lot of my time

feeding cattle....not so much sewing.

The Cowboy and I are a team...

I drive the hay wagon

and the Cowboy feeds the hay.

The cattle are scattered around...

we feed them in 5 different locations

every day.

We have been enjoying dry, frosty mornings

here in wet, wet, wet Western Oregon !

All of the cows are bred

and will begin calving in February 2023.

This is Doll Face......we just love her !

The Cowboy makes dealing with these

round bale feeders look easy...

they're big ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 4 months ago. under birds , cattle , cows , design wall , farm , goats , reflections of autumn quilt , traditional quilts

Monday Project....Reflections of Autumn from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

On Mondays I meet up with my

Quilting Tribe @ The Quilt Palace...

This is my newest Monday quilt project:

Reflections of Autumn Quilt

I will only be working on this on Mondays

when I am @ The Quilt Place...

How gorgeous is this border panel !

16 beautiful autumn prints....yummy !

Close-Up View of a few of them:

I spent today sorting and labeling all of the

fabrics that came in the kit:

I was able to cut out all of the pieces too...

Before the end of the day I began

stitching a few squares together...

This was my first Monday ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 6 months ago. under design wall , harlan valley quilters , reflections of autumn quilt , traditional quilts

Oregon Quilt Retreat... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I have returned to Oregon from

the Idaho Retreat

I attended last week...

I put the Reflected Harmony quilt top,

I have in progress, up on the design wall...

I completed the central part of the quilt top

in Idaho last week...

Now that I am back in Oregon,

I will cut up these border fabrics

and stitch them onto the quilt top...

I am attending a quilt retreat here

in Oregon this week:

I have 4 borders added at this point...

The Flying Geese Border is the 4th border...

Adding the 5th border...

5 Borders.....1 more to go ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 6 months ago. under quilt retreat , reflected harmony quilt , traditional quilts

Idaho Quilt Retreat.....Part 1 from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Idaho Quilt Retreat

I am 600 miles from home...

This is my home away from home

for the next week.

I am all set up for a week of stitching !

I am at the

Twinlow Camp in Rathdrum, Idaho

with the Bossom Buddies group...

I have been coming here for 20 years...

This is our view as we stitch along...

Each quilter serves one meal during the week...

I am all set up with my trusty

Bernina 801 travel machine...

I brought along the Reflected Harmony BOM

that I started last Spring in Oregon...

I am hoping to make lots ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 6 months ago. under quilt retreat , reflected harmony quilt , traditional quilts , travel

Horse Panel....Border Treatment from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I am making progress on this

Horse Quilt Panel

I am piecing Bear Paw blocks

for the border treatment...

All 16 Bear Paw blocks are done...

Now to trim the panel and make them all fit.

The Horse Panel...

High Horse by Riley Blake Designs

We spent the weekend trimming

flowering cherry trees

in the front yard...

It was a sunny and beautiful day...

The red maple trees are putting on a show !

Here is your COLOR BURST for today !

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LuAnn Kessi

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 7 months ago. under design wall , home , horses , traditional quilts

Fast Flower Quilt... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I was in need of a comfort quilt

for a dear friend...

I spent the weekend in the Thread Shed

and stitched up this floral quilt:

I pawed through the fabric cupboards

and found lots of large floral fabrics

leftover from previous quilts...it's a start !

The center of the quilt is a square

with very large pink iris:

These were only scraps of fabrics so I had

to use what I had. I had just enough of the

yellow to frame the center.

Then I built around the center like a log cabin

block until the quilt was ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 7 months ago. under comfort quilts , traditional quilts

Horse Quilt Panels.... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

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 ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 7 months ago. under design wall , horses , tips , traditional quilts

Quilt Retreat....Day 5 from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Look at this gorgeous Quilt !

My aunt made this and I fell in love with it...

I foolishly decided I needed to make it too !

I have been working on this on Mondays

@ the Quilt Palace:

Reflected Harmony

Quilt Kit

16 different fabrics....neatly labeled

Here we go.....Month 1:

Month 2:

Months 1 and 2.....on the Design Wall

Here it is Day 5 of the Quilt Retreat:

I whipped out Month 3 and began cutting...

There was so much cutting to do,

I just had to find a way to

organize all of the pieces:

Zip Loc bags ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 11 months ago. under design wall , new work , quilt retreat , reflected harmony quilt , traditional quilts

Passing the Torch... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Every Quilt has a story...

She carefully chose the flannel fabrics.

I asked her, "what do you want to do with these?"

She replied, "I want to sew all the pieces together

to make a quilt for my bed."

I cut the flannel fabrics into squares

and she pieced them together...

I told her if she finished the quilt top,

I would quilt and bind it for her...

Over a period of 2 weeks,

she stitched together seam after seam

until she thought it was big enough for her bed...

Then she went home

and I carried on with completing ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 2 years ago. under fabulous finishes , free motion quilting , fun , machine quilting , traditional quilts

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