Ok, sorry it took so long to get back - life has been busy. :shock:
Anyway what I ended up doing was creating my log cabin block then pinning the sandwhich of layers together and stitching a center square around the 2 small blocks and oblong at the middle. I pulled the ends through to the middle and tied. Then I worked out stitching the sandwhich together in squares. Finally I stitched the fronts together of the blocks in my pattern hand stitching the seams on the back.
It takes a little extra work but I do get a nice neat stitch on the back.