Design Wall Monday - October 28, 2024

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 is a picture of what I;ve done so far on what will be my top and bottom borders:  

These two borders are the shorter two borders.   So there are lots more flowers and leaves to go.  The good news is that this project is teaching me to be better at applique.  Slowly, I am progressing in skill.  Also, I still have three bird blocks yet to complete on the center part of the quilt.

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Design Wall Monday - October 21, 2024

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This week was a beautiful and busy fall week here in Grand Rapids.  We were blessed by a visit of good friends from Virginia.  We visited the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Friday.  Here are some pictures from there:

My favorite pumpkin? or gourd?

My friend Dean (from VA) with me

My friend Amy (college student here in GR)

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Design Wall Monday - October 14, 2024

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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.  I am nearing the end, as I have only 4 more bird blocks to finish out of 28.   But, the borders are very busy with lots of flowers and leaves, so there is a long way to go to the finish line on this quilt.  I have started on the borders a little bit.  

Also, The redwork embroidery is finished on 3 more dishtowels.  Here they are:

 

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There are only 2 more designs in the set.  They are so cute, I may do some of them again when I am finished with the last 2.

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Design Wall Monday - October 7, 2024

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I am on vacation and have taken a redwork embroidery project with me.  I’m embroidering cotton dishtowels with kitchen utensil themed designs.  

I finished one quite a while ago, and have finished two more while on this trip.  Here are pictures of all three:  (excuse the wrinkles, we are in a motel and I am not ironing them here)

Aren’t they cute?  The patterns are old “Aunt Martha’s” transfer patterns.  I have several other Aunt Martha transfer patterns also, and they are fun to look at - always with dreams of making something with them.  

We are near Lake Michigan and the waves are very strong.  So beautiful.

Penny Lane so wanted to swim, but we wouldn’t let her go in.  She will have to wait until next summer when we can go in with her.

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