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

Ponderosa Charm Squares

Back in March I pulled out these charm squares

and stitched together a Moda Love Star Quilt

top for our neighbor who is expecting her

first baby...

It's time to get it under the needle...

I am stitching on my HQ Sweet Sixteen

Sit-Down Long Arm today...

Our neighbor and her horses

are all expecting babies very soon...

A horsey quilt for a horsey girl !

I have made several of these Moda Love Quilts

and they are so much fun and a great way

to utilize precut squares of all sizes...

Beautiful horse fabric for the ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under baby , free motion quilting , horses , sweet sixteen

Horse Quilt...Done ! from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

" Unbridled "

72 x 56 inches

The horse quilt is the same as the

pillows on the couches.

It's good to have it done and enjoy it

in the living room.

We had 5 newborn calves this morning...

They are all strong and healthy.

This is Althea Red

She is one of our oh so beautiful heifers.

She isn't showing any signs of calving just yet.

We check on the cattle several times a day to

see if any of the mamas are in labor yet.

Sometimes they need our help having their babies.

View my Instagram feed HERE ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 8 months, 2 weeks ago. under cattle , cows , fabulous finishes , farm , horses , panels , traditional quilts

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

Remember this horse panel quilt top?

It has been sitting around long enough...

time to get it....under the needle !

It is a fair sized quilt, so I will quilt it

on my Big Girl Machine...

Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen

This is a Sit-Down Long Arm

and I love it for larger projects...

I used the Handi Quilter Wave Ruler

to quilt the center of the panel...

I used the Hand Quilter Ditch Ruler

for all of the straight line quilting...

To mark the spine of the feather,

I used my very favorite marking tool...

Ultimate Marking Pencil

You just ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 8 months, 2 weeks ago. under fabulous finishes , free motion quilting , horses , panels , tips , traditional quilts

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

I took this off the design wall...

It is time to put this quilt top together...

I piled the quilt blocks and

flying geese units on a design board

so they can travel easily to the machine...

It took a bit of measuring and fudging

to get the quilt blocks to fit nicely

along the sides of the horse panel...

The flying geese units

were a bit of a chore to get them to fit

the quilt and keep all the points pointy...

I had to do lots of fudging on the seam allowances

to get the flying geese borders ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 11 months, 1 week ago. under horses , panels

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

I have always been fond of Flying Geese...

Such a simple quilt block that creates

such a big impact in our designs...

Flying Geese units add lots of movement

to this horse quilt panel...

they get along well with the

rest of the quilt blocks...

I am still in the design phase,

nothing is stitched in place just yet...

The color story is working...

I am stitching holiday gifts right now.

I will stitch them and

look at this on the design wall.

It will let me know what else it needs.

As for these two little cowgirls...

they were ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 11 months, 3 weeks ago. under cattle , cows , design wall , farm , horses , panels

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

All this year I have been working my way

through a stack of fabric panels...

This horse panel is on the design wall...

I bordered it with a rusty brown fabric...

This is the color story I pulled from the

fabric cupboard...

I created a test block to see how

the fabrics work together...

I made a few more...

I put a few blocks up on the design wall....

I will play around with placement

and see what works...

More To Come !

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added by LuAnn Kessi 11 months, 4 weeks ago. under design wall , horses , panels

Horse Panel.....Top DONE ! from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I have auditioned final border fabrics

for this horse panel quilt...

I decided to go with a different brown fabric,

other than the brown I used for the background

in the quilt blocks...

Yesterday I cut and pieced this brown batik

around the the horse panel...

There are small light green and yellow dots

in this batik fabric and they go nicely

with the greens in the quilt blocks...

I am happy with the design of this quilt,

it has a strong visual impact.

Now I need to paw through the fabric

cupboard and find a backing fabric.

Glad I ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 2 months ago. under design wall , flowers , garden , horses , panels

High Horses... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Remember this horse panel...

I created the Bear Paw Block borders

in January...

Here it is all pressed and ready to be

machine quilted...

Ta Da.......DONE !

Here it is all quilted, binding and

even a label on the back

hanging in our living room...

Close Up view of machine quilting...

"High Horses"

LuAnn Kessi

Harlan, Oregon

2023

CLICK HERE to see all my Horse Quilts

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 6 months ago. under horses , panels , traditional quilts

Horse Table Runner... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

On Mondays I spend the day stitching

with the Harlan Valley Quilters...

This has been my Monday project:

Horse Table Runner...

The top is completed...

Auditioning quilting threads...

The machine quilting is done...

the table runner is ready for a binding...

The binding is done and it is ready

to go on our kitchen table...

This was fast and fun !

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year, 8 months ago. under horses , machine quilting , tablerunner

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, 10 months ago. under horses , tips , traditional quilts

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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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

added by LuAnn Kessi 2 years, 1 month ago. under design wall , home , horses , 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 2 years, 2 months ago. under design wall , horses , tips , traditional quilts

Horses in the Stable from Art In Search

No, not horses like Alicia , but fabric horses on a quilt. The Horses Quilt was delivered to its girl Wednesday and her mom reported she was cuddled in it although we have a heat advisory. The quilt was the pattern, Crown and Anchor, by Doug Leko and the fabric line was by Ann Lauer, Horsin' Around. I blogged about the start here. It was not an easy or simple quilt to make. It was fun to quilt. I used Glide thread for the top and Superior Omni for the bobbin. I had major tension issues the last part of the ...

added by Linda Swanekamp 2 years, 5 months ago. under comfort quilt , crown and anchor , horses

Shipshewana from Mama Spark's World

Chris and I spent the day in Shipshewana yesterday. I just love going there. It's only a 3 hour drive to get there so we can go and spend the day and drive home all in the same day. It was good just to get out of the house and go somewhere. First stop, of course, was Jojo's pretzels. I LOVE their pretzels. I debated whether I should eat one being on keto, but decides WTH and just ate one.

added by Mama Spark 3 years, 8 months ago. under horses , jojo's pretzels , quilt shops , shipshewana

2020......Highlights from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

A look back at 2020...

January 2020

I needed a fresh start for 2020.

My sewing area went from this:

to this:

February 2020

Calving Season begins @ the Kessi Ranch

Playing with Rayon Threads

March 2020

The Turkey Vultures are BACK

Calving Season....continues:

Fertilizing the Hay Fields

Playing with Improv

April 2020

Improv Technique 2

Improv Technique 3

Improv Technique 4

Improv Technique 5

Improv Technique 6

Improv Technique 7

Improv Technique 8

Sunflower Quilt Finished

May 2020

Zipper Pulls

Working Cattle.....Spring Round Up

June 2020

Improv Quilt Top

Messy Painted Canvas

July 2020

Tassel Necklaces

Haying Season ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 3 years, 11 months ago. under bags , beads , birds , cattle cows farm , english paper piecing , face masks , free motion quilting , hand pieced , horses , improv , orange peel , painted canvas , pumpkin seed quilt , quilt retreat , stil , thread shed , travel

Giddy Up.....Horse Quilt from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Late last summer I purchased a horse panel...

I added a gold inner border

and a pieced brown outer border

I just finished the machine quilting

and trimmed the edges square...

Lots of fun quilting on the panel,

triangles quilted into the gold border,

feathers on the brown border...

This is a lap size quilt...

Horse Fabric on the Back Side...

Here it is all bound and

ready to wrap up and put under the tree:

" Giddy Up "

Happy Holidays and New Year

from The Kessi Ranch

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LuAnn ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 3 years, 11 months ago. under free motion quilting , horses , machine quilting

Thread Shed.....Wild and Wooly from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

There's a lot going on in the

Thread Shed

I have a lot of irons in the fire

and so glad I have this little building

to hold all of my stitching enthusiasm !

On the left side of the room is where

the Sweet Sixteen Long Arm is located:

Last week I decided to

organize my long arm rulers...

This stand alone shelf is perfect for the job:

I can sort the rulers by how I use them

in the three shelf units...

The rulers stack nicely in each bin...

The top shelf holds the long, straight rulers and ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 4 years, 1 month ago. under face masks , horses , machine quilting , sweet sixteen , thread shed

English Paper Piecing and Plowing... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

On Mondays I spend the day with the

Harlan Valley Quilters

@ the Quilt Palace

I brought along the Horse Panel

and put it up on the design wall...

This is my little corner of the sewing room...

I also brought along the border/frame

for the Horse Panel...

The hexagon papers need to stay in the

outer edge of the borders.....for now.

The borders are pinned up around the panel.

I need to do some measuring and tweeking

before I can begin the applique' work...

It is good to see it up on the wall.

Then I had to ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 4 years, 1 month ago. under english paper piecing , farm , hand pieced , horses , take-a-long quilt

Wyoming...2020 from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

August is our month to get off the ranch

and do some traveling...

We are spending time in Wyoming

I always travel with my Paul Harvey lap quilt...

This sweet girl is a pack mule

All ponies love the Cowboy

It is evening and the light is wonderful

We love Wyoming and tend to come back

year after year after year...

It is good to be in dry country

We traveled through Yellowstone Park...

The buffalo are magnificent...

We viewed more than 1,000 Buffalo

Pronghorn Antelope

Short Eared Owl

Golden Eagle

Getting away is wonderful...

When I take my ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 4 years, 2 months ago. under birds , horses , paul harvey quilt , photography , travel

Montana's June Snow (Bend, OR) from QuiltinCats

The last two days of June will be forever in our hearts. Our first great-grandson - Finley James Howard was born on 29 June 2020. 6.2 lbs 19 1/2 in long.

added by Sandy 4 years, 4 months ago. under horses , indian creek campground , mt montana , native flair , sw quilt

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