Adventures in Portrait Quilts........Class Slideshow

Saturday found me in Philomath, Oregon at

JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop (JLC)

JLC has an ongoing series of classes:

Adventures in Art Quilting

Today I lead a class in

Adventures in Portrait Quilts

Check out the slideshow below to see how our day went:

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Many Thanks to my students for sharing their art and to JLC for their beautiful classroom space.

CLICK HERE to view Photoshop Elements Portrait Tutorial

CLICK HERE to view Neocolor II Portrait Tutorial

CLICK HERE to view Cord Bound Edge Tutorial

CLICK HERE to view Thread Information

CLICK HERE to view my Art Quilts

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Gunnr........Mr. February

Meet Mr. February

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" Gunnr "

by LuAnn Kessi

We just found out Gunnr is February in the

2012 Quilting Arts Calendar

Theme: Feeling Pet-ty

Our son, Nicholas, brought Gunnr home 4 years ago on his birthday.

It is extra fun that Gunnr is Mr. February as

Nicholas was born in February.

Gunnr's portrait quilt was colored and painted on white fabric,

then machine quilted.

Gunnr does not seem to be overly impressed with his quilt,

but I am just tickled .

Check out the cover of the

2012 Quilting Arts Calendar:

Jill Packer created the Iguana

This is a gorgeous piece

The 2012 Quilting Arts Calendar is now for sale

at the Quilting Arts Website

Gunnr plans to hand them out at Christmas !

Better get yours before he buys them all out...

Featured artists are:

Faith Cleary

Nancy Brown

Sue Clayton

Susan Brubaker Knapp

Susan E. Connor

Lisa Encabo

Nancy Hayes

Loreen Leedy

Amber McIntosh

Joan Sowada

Nanette Zeller

Jill Packer

LuAnn Kessi

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Adventures in Mixed Media Quilts...

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Many Thanks to JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop in Philomath Oregon for offering this Adventures in Art Quilting Series, and for their beautiful classroom space we worked in today.

CLICK HERE to view Adventures in Portrait Quilts Class

CLICK HERE to view my Tutorials

CLICK HERE to Watch Me in the Thread Shed

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Working Yearling Cattle........May 2011

It was a beautiful day here in Western Oregon

to work cattle

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CLICK HERE to view Cow & Calf Quilt Portrait

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CLICK HERE to view the Thread Shed

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Snippets Bowl......Play Day

A great way to use up those fabrics scraps !

A FUN way to spend the day!

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CLICK HERE to view Snippets Class

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CLICK HERE to Watch Me in the Thread Shed

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Painted Canvas......Merry-Go-Round Style

We gathered around the kitchen table...

with paint...

and a whole lot of enthusiasm !

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CLICK HERE to view Thermofax Play Day

CLICK HERE to view Wallpaper Quilts Play Day

CLICK HERE to view Rust Dyeing

Many Thanks to Jamie Fingal & Leslie Tucker Jenison for the Inspiration!

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full of Play Days,

LuAnn

Good Fortune Birds Class...

The Permission 2 Play Group

met this week and created

Good Fortune Birds

Take a peek at our class

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Many Thanks to JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop for allowing us the use of their beautiful classroom space. You make all of this possible.

Permission 2 Play is a FREE class offering for cancer diagnosed patients.

Please join us Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:00 - 4:00

We will be Jello Printing on Fabric.

JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop

1243 Main Street

Philomath, OR 97370

541-929-3795

CLICK HERE to view more Permission 2 Play Classes

CLICK HERE to view Healing Stitches Exhibits

The inspiration for Good Fortune Birds came from Kelli Nina Perkins

and her book: Stitch Alchemy.

Permission 2 Play........Crayon Printing Class

Permission 2 Play

had a great time Melting Metallic Crayons

You can check out all the fun we had...

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CLICK HERE to view The Healing Stitches Exhibit

CLICK HERE to view the Paper Doll Quilts Class

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Please Join Us for the Next P2P Class:

Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 1:00

JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop

Philomath, OR

No Experience is Required

All Supplies are provided for Everyone

Quilting Anniversary.......Slideshow

It's March..... I am celebrating

24 years of Quiltmaking

I took my very first Rail Fence Baby Quilt Class

in 1987

I left class with a completed Quilt Top

I was so excited !

I went home and made lots more.

Here it is 24 years later...

Share My Quilting Journey:

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Mary's River Quilt Guild

has invited me to be the Guest Speaker

July 28, 2011

7 pm

Members and Visitors are Welcome!

Please join me as my guest...

I will do a trunk show of my quilts.

Come see them in person.

Mary's River Quilt Guild

Benton County Museum

Main Street

Philomath, Oregon

CLICK HERE to view My Life on the Farm

CLICK HERE to view HOME

CLICK HERE to view The Thread Shed

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full of Quilts,

LuAnn

Oregon Snow.........Slideshow

Our recent snowfall has inspired me to gather together all of our snow photos from the last few years and put them together into a slideshow...

Enjoy !

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CLICK HERE to view Cattle Drive in the Snow Slideshow

CLICK HERE to view The Thread Shed

CLICK HERE to view Jello Printing Class Slideshow

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Cattle Drive......in the Snow

We are moving cattle today...

Come along for the ride!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Art Cloth Round Robin.......Slideshow

Four Art Quilters joined forces to create art cloth.

We decided it would be done Round Robin style.

Each person brought a piece of cloth with one surface design technique on it.

In alphabetical order, we handed our cloth to the next person.

We each left with someone else's cloth...

We had one month to do a new surface design technique on the cloth.

Then we would meet and exchange our art cloth to the next person.

This went on for four months/four rounds.

Here are our results:

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We had one rule....

There was no pressure, we had no expectations for the finished piece of art cloth, all surface design techniques were allowed.

Was it fun........you better believe it was!

Will we do it again........absolutely, we have already exchanged new cloths and we have one month to do a new surface design technique to them.

CLICK HERE to see what I did to Nancy's Art Cloth

CLICK HERE to see what I did to Virginia's Art Cloth

CLICK HERE to see what I did to Kathi's Art Cloth

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Midnight in the Garden......Slideshow

Because our yearly challenge is always TOP SECRET, I was never able to share much of the process of creating this quilt on this blog.

Several of you have written and told me you wished you could have seen more.

I took photos as I worked on this quilt.

Here is a slideshow I put together.

Enjoy!

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CLICK HERE to view all of the Challenge Quilt Posts

CLICK HERE to view The Harlan Valley Quilters (my tiny guild)

CLICK HERE to view The Marys River Quilt Guild (my big guild)

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full.....of Quilts,

LuAnn

The Making of......Stormy

Song:

Milk River Ridge

By: Ian Tyson

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This Stormy quilt was named after the Big Bronc Stormy in Ian Tyson's song: Milk River Ridge.

Thanks Toni Whitney for such a great pattern!

CLICK HERE to view Part 1 (applique work)

CLICK HERE to view Part 2 (machine quilting)

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Horse Quilts in Yakima Washington...

I just returned from a trip to Yakima Washington to spend time with my sister.

We decided we would both like to get our Horse Quilts started...

Here is a slideshow of all of the fun we had:

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A special thanks to Toni Whitney for creating this incredibly easy pattern. It was a joy to follow and made every step fun!

After we completed the horse heads, we went to my sister's local quilt shop and chose background and border fabrics......we are ready to complete the rest of the quilt soon.

CLICK HERE to see the Quilting

CLICK HERE to see the completed Quilt

CLICK HERE to view My Art Quilts

CLICK HERE to view My Traditional Quilts

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Neocolors II Play Day...

I was invited to Nancy's studio yesterday for a Play Day...

We experimented with Neocolor II Water Soluble Crayons on Fabric.

Nancy provided an excellent sample piece

to inspire the rest of us.

Watch the slideshow below to see how our Play Day went:

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Play Days are wonderful and so fun and exciting!

Gather your friends together and take turns hosting Play Days!

CLICK HERE to view Gunnr's Portrait in Neocolors II

CLICK HERE to view Fabric Painting Play Day

CLICK HERE to view Texture Magic Play Day

CLICK HERE to view Jello Printing Play Day

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full of Play Days,

LuAnn