suern3

I'm guessing this what I would do, too. If you wanted the red center, I don't see how you can be satisfied with the quilt without it.

Jingle

I think I would finish it up and donate it. Most non quilting people would never know the difference.

jannxin

Can anyone help me with a project i'm doing that I don't know how to continue? I'm ready to start sewing my rows on this quilt top that is 8 rows across and 9 blocks down (columns). Which way is the easiest way to sew them for that large a quilt to make them go thru my machine? Sew across first and then sew each row together or Sew down first and sew columns together?? Appreciate some advice before I begin and make a BIG mistake....tnx

ctyankee

I once made a blue & white snowman tablerunner & after I had sewn all the blocks together & put on the binding, I realized I put them together incorrectly! In my eyes they look like a mishmash, but nobody knows what they were supposed to look like, including me! It's been on my table every Christmas for the past 10+ years.

As for your log cabin blocks, I can't see why not using your intended color would be a problem. When I started quilting many, many years ago, I may have taken it apart, but today I say, put it together & finish it. It may not be as bad as you think. And, if you really don't like it, you have a charity quilt to give away.

Buckeye Rose

Start your own thread to get the answers you are looking for.

sewbizgirl

Log cabins can be trickier that we think... I made one for my son's bed and didn't get the effect I was going for, either. But I put it together anyway and the pattern it did make was still nice.

I wouldn't change your blocks at all, but rather put them together in the most pleasing layout you can and consider it a learning experience. Then you can make notes and try again.

Gay

Jannxin - I don't see any difference.
Maybe you can connect the middle columns first, then work your way out to the sides (or to the top and bottom)

Quilt30

How important is it that they have red on the center. I don't know of any fast rule that says they be red.

Dina

I agree with Gay, I don't think it will make a difference.

Dina

Dina

I would just play with the blocks and make a new design.

Dina