25. First Cousins Quilt

Mark's cousin, Ione Whitney, included me in a cousin's block exchange. We each got 1/3 yard of focus fabric. We had to make six identical blocks, keep one for ourselves, send one each to the other five members of the group. When we received everyone's block, we could complete the quilt any way we wanted. I made extra blocks.

Top left corner: Marlys Wiens
Top right corner: Lorna Wiens
Center: Betty Lawson (log cabin block with counted cross stitch--beautiful!)
Lower left corner: Ione Whitney
Lower right corner: Adele Ewert
Remaining four blocks: me

We met in Diamond Lake, Oregon, over 4th of July weekend 1997. We each had our quilts. They looked amazingly different from each other!

Title: Cousins Quilt
Pattern: Block exchange
Date Started: April 1996
Date Completed: May 1997
Quilted by: Assembled by machine, hand quilted by me