cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - October 28, 2024 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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This week I worked a little more on two of the borders for Cousin’s Walk. It looks like I blogged about these borders back in March, 2024. Progress has been slow. To refresh your memory, here is a picture of the original quilt:

The borders are unusual, and my version of them eliminates the center break in the vine on each side. I am working on two borders at a time. The original pattern has each of the four borders with different amounts of flowers. But I decided to make mine a little less complicated. Here ...

added by Judy Hansen 1 week, 4 days ago. under cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - October 14, 2024 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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This week I worked on more blocks for the Cousin’s Walk quilt. There are 28 bird blocks and each block has a different bird in a different small tree. Most of the trees have a few leaves and two or three flowers. One of the block patterns I worked on this week had a tree with 15 leaves. After appliquing 8 leaves, I decided to stop there and not add 7 more leaves. Here is the block:

The second block finished this week is this one

It had only 4 leaves, which made it much easier ...

added by Judy Hansen 3 weeks, 4 days ago. under cousin’s walk , redwork

Design Wall Monday - September 30, 2024 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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This is the last day in September, and there are only three more months in this year. There are so many UFOs that I want to work on this year that I’m inspired to spend more time in my quilt studio. Working on three projects this week

. #1 The third quilt from the box of bowtie blocks. Here is the proposed finish now on the design wall. The green solid has a calming feel for me, and reminds me of the 30’s “nile green” color:

#2. A project that I’m bring to a retreat ...

added by Judy Hansen 1 month, 1 week ago. under bowtie quilt , collection for a cause , cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - March 25, 2024 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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Well, some weeks are productive, and some are not. This week was not. Here is a picture of the start on my Cousin’s Walk borders, as it looks this morning:

And this is what it looked like last Monday morning:

But, I did fill out my NCAA tournament bracket, and watched a lot of basketball. I am currently in 9th place in our family’s pool of 9 people. Trivia for today: My hubby and I were both basketball players in high school, and that was one of our common interests when we started dating back ...

added by Judy Hansen 7 months, 2 weeks ago. under cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - March 18, 2023 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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This week has been a productive week for me - quilt wise. Remember when I showed you a challenge quilt that some friends are making that was all hourglass blocks? (Here). The blocks finish at two inches. Here is my progress on my version:

My version has a combination of half-square triangles and hourglass blocks - all finishing at two inches. I am not sure how big my quilt will grow, but I made progress in sewing block sets together of 36 hourglasses. 6x6 units. Some more in progress here:

Also, besides making progress on this quilt, I started ...

added by Judy Hansen 7 months, 3 weeks ago. under challenge hourglass quilt , cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - March 11, 2024 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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This week two more blocks were completed for my Cousin’s Walk quilt. I now have 18 finished and 10 more to do.

Here is a picture of the original quilt, to refresh your memory.

The borders are all different amounts of busyness and I’m planning to make them more cohesive and probably will eliminate the part where the two vines run off the middle of each side of the quilt. I’m going to start on borders next. It is such a whimsical quilt. It will be fun to work on just flowers and leaves ...

added by Judy Hansen 8 months ago. under cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - February 19, 2024 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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The signature quilt that I showed you last week now has the flange sewed on, and also the final border. Here is a picture:

A close-up of the flange:

I don’t know about loose flanges. This one will sometimes lay toward the quilt side and sometimes twist and lay toward the border side, and I want it to always lay toward the border side. I am going to hand sew the loose edge down onto the border. So I guess once it is sewn down, it’s no longer a flange. I now see why it ...

added by Judy Hansen 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under cousin’s walk , signature blocks

Design Wall Monday - November 13, 2023 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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It was a wonderful, peaceful week at the retreat in Shipshewana, Indiana. So many wonderful ladies gathered in one room, all talking and laughing together. I loved it.

While there I finished the binding on the May Day Basket Quilt, and made some more bird blocks for Cousins Walk. Here are a few pictures from the retreat:

First, a picture of me with my progress on Cousins Walk:

Next, a picture of all the ladies who came with their bird blocks of our uncompleted Cousins Walk Quilts.

Note: Several of us wear aprons while we sew in ...

added by Judy Hansen 12 months ago. under cousin’s walk , jane stickle quilt retreat , may day basket doll quilt , may day basket quilt

Design Wall Monday - September 11, 2023 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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The design wall has a new project on it now. Cousin’s Walk is a quirky bird quilt that some friends and I are all working on. Some of them are changing the size of the blocks, and some are changing the center block. I am sticking fairly closely to the picture on the pattern. (picture from last week) The bird blocks are all facing in different directions in the original quilt. I may switch them to all right side up before I finish, but for now, I like the quirkiness.

I wanted to see how all ...

added by Judy Hansen 1 year, 1 month ago. under cousin’s walk

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