Saturday 30 March 2013

Log Cabin Quilt


Although pompoms have almost totally taken over my life at the moment, I am still trying to work away at other things too.  I bought some lovely Oakshott cotton last summer with the intention of making a log cabin quilt.  The red fat eighths were for the centres and then the blues were to be the ‘logs’.  The quilt would have been finished now, but I decided that plain centres were not as interesting as I wanted, so I decided to make little 36 patches to go in the middle.  I must be mad!  The centres of course took ages and are slightly less than 100% accurate, but I think it will all add to the final feeling of the quilt. 

I wanted 20 blocks for the quilt, and due to a miscalculation (I forgot seam allowances for some silly reason), I ended up with twelve centres from my first batch.  I thought I had made the other eight, but last time I counted, I was only up to 17 blocks in total.  Since then, I have not dared count as it would be rather depressing to think I still have three more full blocks to make.  The blocks are at various stages, which I like as it fools me in to believing there is slightly less work than I was expecting to be done...

2 comments:

Margaret said...

Your pieced centres are delightful! Adds texture to a traditional pattern, rather like an old stone hearth (which, as you know, the red symbolizes): hearth and home. You don't give dimensions...are those squares-to-make-a-square really tiny?

Gillian Cooper said...

Thanks Margaret. The blocks are 12in finished size, so each one of those squares is 1in - not small for a miniature specialist, but small enough for me!

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