![]() ![]() So, I’ve got this on the top, like this, and I’m going to lay my other one in there, just like this. So, I put that piece on the top and this will make a little more sense to you as I sew a few more. Now, a good way to remember which log is coming to next is, whichever piece is fully across, that’s the piece you’re going to sew to. So now, we have this one, this one little piece on, and we’re going to add another log to this side. I kind of tend to do mine lights to dark and that’s just how I like to do it, but that really is personal preference. Let me scoot these to make sure you can see what I’m doing here.įor the log cabin you kind of come up with a cool color scheme because you’re going to kind of do lights to darks or you can do it all scrappy, or, or, you know, really, however you want it. So, what I’m going to do is, I’m just going to press them back. I’m just going to use my rotary cutter, right here, and then you want to iron these open. When you cut them apart you can either use your scissor or your rotary cutter. So, what I do then is, I cut these apart. It makes a nice big square and so it’s, it’s, it’s a pretty good sized one. So, this one happens to be thirty six blocks and so it makes a quilt that’s about seventy-two by seventy-two. So, I just slide another one in there, like this, and, I’ll just do a couple of these so you see how to do this, but I would decide ahead of time how many blocks I wanted for this quilt and then I would go ahead and do all the centers at once. Go to the sewing machine and we’re just going to lay this on here and sew a quarter of an inch and I’m just going to go ahead and sew and then, right before I get to the, to the end of this block, I’m going to put another one in there. So, let’s go ahead, and I’m going to sew these on, over here. So, it’s a really easy way to get a whole bunch done at once. So, the first thing we’re going to do is, we are going to take our one and half inch strip and we are going to add logs to two sides of this block and both sides are going to get the small, the small pieces on them and how I do this is, I take my little middles and, instead of cutting all the pieces, which, for me, takes a lot of time, I just take a strip and I sew, I sew all a quarter of an inch and I’m just going to add piece after piece after piece and sew all one side, like this, and then clip them apart. So then we’re going to have these little squares, like this, and we have to start building our logs around them. Actually, you can do it any color you want. ![]() Now, the two and half inch square is traditionally, it’s going to be red for the heart of the home or yellow for the light of the home, and it’s going to be one of those colors. The first thing we’re going to need is a two and half inch square for our center. Now, the log cabin is so much fun because there are a zillion ways to set this and if you just look up log cabin blocks you’ll just be amazed at how many different blocks you can, or how many different looks you can get from this block. So, we’ve got this great square, here, and we’ve got the smaller pieces on one side and the larger pieces on the other side and it make this curvy look to it. ![]() So, to make this quilt what you’re going to need is a jelly roll, which is a two and half inch strip, and a honey bun ,which is a one and half inch strip. This one is really special and fun because it has just a little bit of different pizazz on it and I’m going to show you just how to do it. This.I just have to tell you about the log cabin block because, really, this was the first quilt I ever made, was a log cabin quilt. Take a look at this gorgeous quilt behind me. ![]() Abstract Dreaming Quilt is Getting Slowly into Shape (skalabara.Hi, I’m Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.Still looks good I think, and I have enough fabric to do some more, so some more will follow.ĭo check out Quilt Dad for tutorial and (Amy’s)craftyshenanigans for full LMQG Challenge details:) Problem is – I’m not good at following patterns or instructions very carefully – me, I like jumping in with two feet and then realise the mistakes after…in this case my central square ended up not so central because my fabric strips for the log cabin weren’t uniform in measurement, doh! Or maybe that’s the way it’s meant to be? And some of the outside pieces might be a wee bit narrow. I searched up how to do this through google and Quilt Dad was my first stop when looking for a tutorial on ‘wonky Log Cabin Blocks’. I made a wonky log cabin block out of this fabric – for the March challenge of the LMQG. Lovely colour co-ordinated Amy Butler fabric, I feel spoiled. My Fabric Swap from the London Modern Quilt Guild (LMQG) is sooo Yummy. ![]()
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