I've not yet made a log cabin quilt, but DO hope to someday. The ones at quilt shows that tend to catch my eye are quilted down the middle of each log, so it makes it look like you used 1" logs instead of 2". To me that just goes with the straight lines of log cabin and the plainer more primitive look rather than trying to make it more "fancy". How easy it would be to do, that I don't know. I'm just a beginner at machine quilting. The best advice would be for you to look at as many log cabin quilts you can, in person or online, so you can see what YOU like best.