![]() ![]() The star stitches work in nicely with the starburst pattern and the quilt is very soft and cuddly given the low density quilting. ![]() Then I decided to tie the quilt within these lines, using a decorative star pattern dotted around various spots within. I used a decorative straight stitch to sew anchoring lines between all the ‘stars’ (along the light grey grid) and around the edges. Once the top was finished I basted and did some fairly quick quilting. I don’t mind and I know my daughter doesn’t care, so I was happy with the trade off. It would be remiss of me not to point out that this method will lead to some inconsistencies in your blocks – you can see below that my greys aren’t lining up from block to block. These blocks came together so quickly using this method – it was so gratifying. It was super quick to iron them like that. When I did iron, I pressed all my seams to the side. Finger pressing the seams within each round worked fine for me. I only ironed after each round, not after each individual log. I did NOT trim the blocks back with each round, I just trimmed the final blocks to 10.5″ x 11.5″ Then when I cut them apart it only took one cut instead of two, and many times I just used scissors and eyeballed it. With this quilt, when I chain pieced I butted my blocks up right next to each other, like this: Normally when chain piecing I like to leave about a half inch between blocks in the ‘chain’ and then cut them apart with my ruler as a guide, lined up along the length of my block. But before I get to that, here’s an outline of a few things that made it really quick to put this quilt together. I’ve put together a tutorial should you wish to make this 60″ x 88″ twin rectangle log cabin quilt pattern. I was also contemplating using a HRT instead of a plain centre rectangle in these mock ups: Light to dark vs dark to light in the grey fabrics. I finally settled on my version as I felt it made the ‘stars’ pop the most. Dark against light, light against light, phew. ![]() And then deciding which way to gradate the colours. Boy, there are some configurations out there – this was the hardest part of this quilt, deciding which to go with. My final layout was 6 blocks by 8 blocks, and they are arranged in the configuration commonly known as Sunshine and Shadows. My blocks are 10″ x 11″ finished (sewn together). I realised that a rectangular block would work much better, so that’s what I went with. I was contemplating using square log cabin blocks, but found that they didn’t give me the twin sized quilt I wanted or they ended up with an odd number of blocks along the side, which didn’t suit the layout I wanted to use. Why not combine the two hashtags and sew my daughter a log cabin quilt from stash? Yes! I had been stashing sunny yellow fabrics for almost a year to make my daughter some sort of quilt. A rectangle log cabin quilt pattern tutorial.Įarlier this year, on instagram, I noticed there was a #scrappylogcabinQAL and a movement to #sewmystash2015. ![]()
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