cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - April 7, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

I just got home from a quilt retreat. Each time I go, I work on blocks for a Jane Stickle quilt. I cut the book “Dear Jane” apart, and have each of the book’s block picture by each of my blocks. I am a little over half way making the 169 blocks for this quilt. Here are the blocks I completed at the retreat:

The blocks finish at five inches each. Since I got this UFO out to work on at the retreat, I think I will leave it out and work on it some more ...

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

Design Wall Monday - March 31, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

My design wall is empty today, but I am nearing the end of an appliqué quilt. The last time I posted about this quilt was in early February, and at that time, I was nearly finished with the borders. See post (Here). For some unexplained reason, I quit working on it, and put it aside. I don’t know why, but sometimes when I am very near the end of a quilt, I slow down.

Anyway, I am working on it again, and I am showing you here. The larger tulip flower was only on one of ...

added by Judy Hansen 2 weeks, 4 days ago. under cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - February 24, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

The Collection for a Cause - Community quilt is now sewn together into a quilt top. Despite all my mistakes, I am happy to have it ready to be quilted. It turned out to be 78” by 80”, almost square. If I had cut the diamonds correctly, the kit should have resulted in a quilt that would be 69” by 83”. So I am happy with it, in spite of all the twists and turns, If you want to know more, you could search my blog for previous posts in January, 2025.

Here is the quilt top on ...

added by Judy Hansen 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under collection for a cause , community , cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - February 17, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

I hope you had a great Valentines Day with your loved ones. Here are some quilts that are out at our house this February.

Two over the railings of the stairs near the front door::

A doll quilt of toile fabric that matches the bigger quilt above:

Do you notice that I fussy cut the toile fabric so there are two of each bird? I love birds and am enjoying the variety that are at the bird feeder outside my kitchen window. Life is full of small pleasures.

I am nearing the corners of the Cousin’s ...

added by Judy Hansen 2 months ago. under cousin’s walk , valentines day

Design Wall Monday - February 10, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

My design wall looks similar to last week, but I am making progress. here is a picture:

The left side is all sewn together, and I am working on the rest of it. It is going well, but I didn’t have time to work on it much this week. Slow and steady will get the job done.

The Cousin’s Walk quilt is getting nearer the end….slow and steady applies to this one too. I tried to appliqué one flower each day, and there are three more flowers to go before I get to the ...

added by Judy Hansen 2 months, 1 week ago. under collection for a cause , community , cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - February 3, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

Happy February to you. My Cousin’s Walk borders are getting finished. I am nearing the end, and try to appliqué one flower each day. Here’s todays picture: on left, the last two borders as they are now, and on the right, a picture of the same two borders from two weeks ago. I am getting excited that the end is getting near!

The diamonds quilt on the design wall is coming along too. I added the edge parts, and have about ten long strips of blocks sewn together, and also have a little bit in ...

added by Judy Hansen 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under collection for a cause , community , cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - January 20, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

The two quilts I’m working on got some progress this week:

(1) Collection for a Cause - Community is on the design wall, or at least 1/2 of it. The blocks are now all adjusted to the same size, and here are all the solid diamonds for it. I put the darks and lights into vertical rows. Next, when they are all sewn, I’ll put up the four-patch diamonds into the blank spots.

As I am working on this quilt, I realized that since I cut all the diamonds shorter and fatter than the instructions ...

added by Judy Hansen 2 months, 4 weeks ago. under collection for a cause , community , cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - January 6, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

I divided the two long Cousin’s Walk quilt borders into 6 sections. I have 2 sections appliquéd and decided I could do 1 of the four remaining sections each week in January to finish these two borders in four weeks. Alas, I didn’t get much done this week, just a flower or two. But I will work on it more this coming week, and see if I can get past the 3rd section of each of the two borders by next Monday. Here is a picture of where I am right now: (just one borders ...

added by Judy Hansen 3 months, 1 week ago. under cousin’s walk

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

Good Morning Quilters! Can you believe this is the last Monday in 2024? The next week will be a time of reflection on 2024 and making plans for what I hope to accomplish in 2025.

Here is the current status of the two long borders for the Cousin’s Walk quilt that I’m working on. (pictured on the floor next to each other, but on the quilt they will be on the two sides)

If I work on this project a lot during January, I believe it will be completed by the end of the month. I love it ...

added by Judy Hansen 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under cousin’s walk

Design Wall Monday - December 23, 2024 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Merry Christmas!

My stockings are hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon will be there…..in fact I have been visited by the man himself three times this month. He assured me all three times that I am on his good list.

Here are the pictures of my three encounters with him.

At a restaurant in Lubbock, TX, early in December.

The second time, at Frankenmuth, MI while we dined at The Bavarian Inn.

Third time, right in my home! He came with a cute elf to visit me and even stayed for dinner.

Re ...

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

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

Good Morning Quilters!

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 5 months, 3 weeks ago. under cousin’s walk

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

Good Morning Quilters!

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 6 months ago. under cousin’s walk , redwork

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

Good Morning Quilters!

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 6 months, 2 weeks ago. under bowtie quilt , collection for a cause , cousin’s walk

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

Good Morning Quilters!

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 1 year ago. under cousin’s walk

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

Good Morning Quilters!

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 1 year, 1 month ago. under challenge hourglass quilt , cousin’s walk

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

Good Morning Quilters!

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 1 year, 1 month ago. under cousin’s walk

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

Good Morning Quilters!

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 1 year, 1 month ago. under cousin’s walk , signature blocks

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

Good Morning Quilters!

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 1 year, 5 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

Good Morning Quilters!

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, 7 months ago. under cousin’s walk

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