Originally Posted by
Sew Freak
your quilt is beautiful! Is this the curved log cabin? Or did you have a different pattern on setting the squares?
Hi Sew Freak, Some people call this an offset log cabin and others a curved. The clam shell is formed sewing four 6.5" blocks together. Half the strips are cut 1.5 wide and the other half 1" wide. I drafted it out on graph paper. Two of the blocks the 1.5" strips are darks and the 1" strips are light and the other two are vice-versa (the 1.5 are light and the 1" are dark). If you did all the blocks with 1.5 dark, when you put them together it would form a dark circle which would also look nice. As I progressed I realized I liked the look where "like" colors were grouped together in each LC block so that is why some shells look predominantly blue, some red and some black. This is a great use for those who have many scraps in odd and small sizes. The smallest units in these blocks is only 1" x 1.5" and who doesn't have a scrap that small, for those of us who don't toss them when they are that tiny.
Thank you everyone for all the nice comments. This quilt was a lot of fun for me. It was my mindless sewing project when putting it together but I quickly grew addicted to it. I planned the quilting for it as I was piecing it. That is why I put such a substantial border on it. I wanted someplace for those waves.
I couldn't wait for one of my own to have room in my quilting que which will happen much more this year as I am not taking on any new clients this year. Time to work on my growing pile of quilts and tops. Oh and that backing, it was a total fluke that the two WOF strips lined up like that! I didn't even try to do it. I just rolled out the yardage and cut two pieces, lopped off the selvages and sewed them together. The good Lord must have been smiling on my efforts that day and liked what I was doing because those two pieces lined up as though I had planned it. I don't think I would be near as happy with the back if that hadn't worked out that way. That fabric has been sitting in my stash for several years. Probably as much as 7, maybe even closer to 10. I picked it up on sale and knew then it would make a great back so bought enough yardage of it for that purpose.