Originally Posted by cjr
I know many of you make log cabin quilts, as I've seen many posted here. How do you do your log cabin quilts? I am incooperating log cabins in a quilt I'm working on. I did a test block by cutting logs from a long strip after sewing. My instructor says all should be precut or will curl. My test did not curl. How do you do them and why?
I don't cut my pieces first. For one reason, I generally make up the order of the 'logs' as I go along, and if I would have precut them, it would not be as easy to change their order. I have found that sewing and THEN cutting is much more accurate, too, because if your 1/4" seam is even a hair off, it will magnify as you add the blocks and will pull the seams toward the end. Also, if you are so inclined, paper piecing a log cabin block is extremely accurate!