Donna's Ancestor's Antique Log Cabin Variation
 

Here is a tutorial for the very interesting log cabin quilt seen in Donna's post http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...s-t184422.html

Read the topic to see the vintage photo of her ancestors and their quilt.

Jan in VA

Is there a reason that the red was all cut into squares then joined to the green, then cut apart? Wouldn't it be easier to just piece the red and green together then cut apart? Am I missing something?

I can't open doc. up on my computer

Jan,
You are so wonderful to share this with us! So helpful, as always.
Thanks!

Jan, you are a doll! Thanks so much for the pattern.

I love log cabins, this is a very nice layout, i am getting fabric together to try and start one for me, i love reds so trying to get a lot together to use in mine, i found a new fabric called "Friendship" that is mostly reds, so now i am working on color combinations, which is hard for me, i keep changing my mind.
Thank you so much for sharing

Thanks Jan. This looks like a great user-friendly tutorial.

Thank you Jan for the great tut. Very well done.

Absolutely right, LOL!! That's what comes of drawing patterns at midnight, sigh.:o
Thank you for catching that, Pepita.

Jan in VA

Pojo, This one was written in Microsoft Word 2003; is it possible you don't have MS Office, MSWord, or other similar programs on your computer? Wish I were skilled enough to help you.

Jan in VA

I don't have Microsoft Office on my computer, either. We use Open Office. In order to look at Jan's file, I needed to right click on her Word document link (above) then chose "Save Target As" with a left click. Then I chose where I wanted to save the file on my computer and added the extension ".sxw" after the title, which is what Open Office uses for text documents. You will need to use whatever extension YOUR text program uses. Then just click "Save". Then I can open the document in Open Office and read it.

Hope that this helps you!

I love log cabins and all the variations. My bucket list contains a slip that I'll make all the variations I can find. :)
Sunny Sandy

Do you have microsoft works? That'll do it. It's free, you can download it.

I made your file into a PDF so those who can't open your file have a chance to see it.

Here's a pdf version.

Lol. I see someone beat me to it. Left my computer before hitting reply.

Thank you all for the PDF version, I too don't get the other.

Easy peazy!!!!!

Awwww, thank you, dear heart!!!
Jan

OK.....I'm confused as to why you would sew pieces together, then cut them apart???

Donna,
Can you be more specific...which part do you mean 'Sewed together then cut apart'?

Back on the first page of this topic I responded to Pepita's post about cuting the red into squares then sewing them individually to a green strip when it would be more efficient to sew a red strip and a green strip together, then cut into a green/red segment before adding the next 'log' strip. Is this what you mean?

Jan in VA

Thanks for mentioning that as i was also wondering. Wonderful tutorial and super design pattern.

any chance you could do the tutorial in pdf. i do not have the program you used. thanks just in case you can do that

Thanks much Jan. So far, I have only done a log cabin in floral and white on whites to make a good sized table runner. Someday, comes the quilt.

Jan,
Thanks so much! I'm adding this to my bucket list for sure.:thumbup:

Thanks Jan for sharing this tutorial, Log Cabins are one of my favorite patterns and I just printed this one off so I can make it.

Pat

Thanks, Jan, This one is for sure on my 2do list! Great job! Mawluv