Jeanette Frantz

SusieQOH,

I made the log cabin (my avatar, in the corner of this post) to use as a spread for my queen-size bed. It is a huge quilt, and it has a deep cherry red border (4" wide) and a white-on-white border (2" wide). I purposely made this one so that it would hang to just above the floor. I think the quilt is about 130" X 130". I made my quilt so that it would have enough length to tuck under and over the pillows (like a conventional bedspread would do). I have also made king-size log cabins for my two sisters, with custom-made bedskirts and pillow shams. I made my own pattern for the pillow shams -- they're very easy to do. If you're interested, I can post photos. Of course, you can make the pillow shams and have them quilted like you're going to have your quilt top done. Just a suggestion! Just because you have 100 blocks, you don't have to use all of them for the quilt. I had another idea that I haven't followed through with -- make your quilt the size you want, make your bedskirt, and turning under the edges of the blocks, sew them to the bedskirt equal distance apart so that the bedskirt fully matches your quilt spread! Just another wild idea!

P.S. Watch your layout on your log cabin blocks -- I found out that an uneven number of blocks, i.e., width-wise, will give you a lop-sided pattern in the quilt top!