What is your favorite strip width for scrappy log cabins?
#1
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western Wisconsin
Posts: 12,930
I want to start cutting strips for scrappy log cabin quilts, but am hesitating over the width. With lots of fabrics, I can go as narrow or as wide as I want. I realize that 1.5 inch strips give the most design possibilities, but am a little hesitant over the additional sewing time and extra weight in the quilt (from the seam allowances), and maybe a little more difficulty machine quilting over all those seam allowances. I've made log cabin blocks with wider widths, but not the 1.5 inch cut width.
Any advice?
Any advice?
#3
Have you seen Jenny Beyer's Log Cabin pattern in McCall's magazine this month? It's amazing. http://www.mccallsquilting.com/articles/Kinabalu
The size log strips in it are 1 1/8" wide up to 1 3/4" wide.
The size log strips in it are 1 1/8" wide up to 1 3/4" wide.
#5
Originally Posted by Prism99
I've made log cabin blocks with wider widths, but not the 1.5 inch cut width.
Any advice?
Any advice?
Here's a link to a great article from the Quilt Study Center on Log Cabin quilts, showing different settings and explaining a lot of why they do what they do.
http://www.quiltstudy.org/includes/d...lleryguide.pdf
#7
Banned
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Keene, New Hampshire
Posts: 4,211
I've made a couple of log cabins; my first used 2 1/2" strips. This was way too wide although I loved the quilt - it was one of my first in the mid 70s and I didn't know much.
2" would be the widest I'd go. Courthouse might look okay with wider strips.
It's been on my mind to do a scrap one with a much larger center square and 1+1/2" strips.
2" would be the widest I'd go. Courthouse might look okay with wider strips.
It's been on my mind to do a scrap one with a much larger center square and 1+1/2" strips.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Ms Grace
Main
18
04-03-2009 07:07 PM