Need help on log cabins
06-10-2011, 01:01 AM
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I'm sewing a log cabin quilt for the first time and need some help. No matter how I try to mix and match the log cabin borders to my HSTs, I'm still not satisfied. Somehow there are always some blocks that end up with very bad combination.
Appreciate any advice here!
Appreciate any advice here!
06-10-2011, 01:13 AM
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are you over complicating?
log cabin's (usually) only need to have strips sorted into light and dark- lights go on 2 sides, darks the other 2...the log-cabins work...i'm a bit confused about your (half square triangles???) a log cabin block usually starts with a center square (traditionally red or yellow-the home hearth fire) then *logs* are added in a counter clockwise direction around the center square- for how ever rounds are required to make the size block you want.
and make blocks and put them aside- on a design wall if you have one- when you stand back and look you may find the ones you don't think work- work just fine- it is the values (lights and darks) that make log cabin blocks work
log cabin's (usually) only need to have strips sorted into light and dark- lights go on 2 sides, darks the other 2...the log-cabins work...i'm a bit confused about your (half square triangles???) a log cabin block usually starts with a center square (traditionally red or yellow-the home hearth fire) then *logs* are added in a counter clockwise direction around the center square- for how ever rounds are required to make the size block you want.
and make blocks and put them aside- on a design wall if you have one- when you stand back and look you may find the ones you don't think work- work just fine- it is the values (lights and darks) that make log cabin blocks work
06-10-2011, 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by ckcowl
are you over complicating?
log cabin's (usually) only need to have strips sorted into light and dark- lights go on 2 sides, darks the other 2...the log-cabins work...i'm a bit confused about your (half square triangles???) a log cabin block usually starts with a center square (traditionally red or yellow-the home hearth fire) then *logs* are added in a counter clockwise direction around the center square- for how ever rounds are required to make the size block you want.
and make blocks and put them aside- on a design wall if you have one- when you stand back and look you may find the ones you don't think work- work just fine- it is the values (lights and darks) that make log cabin blocks work
log cabin's (usually) only need to have strips sorted into light and dark- lights go on 2 sides, darks the other 2...the log-cabins work...i'm a bit confused about your (half square triangles???) a log cabin block usually starts with a center square (traditionally red or yellow-the home hearth fire) then *logs* are added in a counter clockwise direction around the center square- for how ever rounds are required to make the size block you want.
and make blocks and put them aside- on a design wall if you have one- when you stand back and look you may find the ones you don't think work- work just fine- it is the values (lights and darks) that make log cabin blocks work
06-10-2011, 03:20 AM
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Originally Posted by vivientan
Originally Posted by ckcowl
are you over complicating?
log cabin's (usually) only need to have strips sorted into light and dark- lights go on 2 sides, darks the other 2...the log-cabins work...i'm a bit confused about your (half square triangles???) a log cabin block usually starts with a center square (traditionally red or yellow-the home hearth fire) then *logs* are added in a counter clockwise direction around the center square- for how ever rounds are required to make the size block you want.
and make blocks and put them aside- on a design wall if you have one- when you stand back and look you may find the ones you don't think work- work just fine- it is the values (lights and darks) that make log cabin blocks work
log cabin's (usually) only need to have strips sorted into light and dark- lights go on 2 sides, darks the other 2...the log-cabins work...i'm a bit confused about your (half square triangles???) a log cabin block usually starts with a center square (traditionally red or yellow-the home hearth fire) then *logs* are added in a counter clockwise direction around the center square- for how ever rounds are required to make the size block you want.
and make blocks and put them aside- on a design wall if you have one- when you stand back and look you may find the ones you don't think work- work just fine- it is the values (lights and darks) that make log cabin blocks work
06-10-2011, 03:49 AM
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Here's a link to the log cabin gallery on this site. Lots of ideas!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/user_page.jsp?upnum=2203
http://www.quiltingboard.com/user_page.jsp?upnum=2203
06-10-2011, 05:01 AM
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don't look at each piece. Wait until the whole goes together then the odd/ugly/pieces you think don't work, will work. In a scrappy-style quilt, everything works as a whole even if the pieces are off. Just like the Gestalt theory, the whole is greater than the sums of the parts. It is true.
06-10-2011, 07:42 AM
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The quilt I'm working on looks like this when finished. However, I'm using a different collection of fabrics. Based on a scrappy log cabin quilt like this, is there a specific way I should arrange my strips? For eg, if I put 2 light or 2 dark fabrics adjacent to each other, can it work?
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