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03-15-2013, 11:36 PM
#41
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this is the only way i will make a log cabin quilt. once you make one by the strip method, you will be hooked. you can square up each square when the blocks are made before sewing them together if needed. if you have a 12-hr. day with no interuptions to sew (no dogs, kids or husband to bother you) you can cut and sew a full/queen sized quilt top.
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Originally Posted by SewFarBehind
I have done the strip method and had no problem. Eleanor Burns has a "Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin" that's very helpful.
03-15-2013, 11:43 PM
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Jan, I love this quilt!!
Originally Posted by Jan in VA
Actually, I cut my fabric from selvage to selvage - or WOF.......because: though I have up to 100 values of, say, blue or red or yellow in my stash, there may be less than 1/2 yard left of some of those fabrics in the particular value/print I need. I'd have too many 1/2 yard or 1/3 yard short strips if I cut on the LOF.
To make this log cabin, for instance, I had many different fabrics to cut, but only 2-3 strips of some of them. So I used less than 4" of some of those fabrics and was able to cut 42" long strips from that. To cut long strips otherwise, you'd have to have yardage. And I don't often DO yardage!
That's just my stash-building personality; if I'm out of one print, I have the opportunity for the creative challenge of finding another that will work and add texture to the quilt, but often the viewer's eye isn't aware of the *detail* of that in my finished quilt; they just know they "like it"!
Jan in VA
To make this log cabin, for instance, I had many different fabrics to cut, but only 2-3 strips of some of them. So I used less than 4" of some of those fabrics and was able to cut 42" long strips from that. To cut long strips otherwise, you'd have to have yardage. And I don't often DO yardage!
That's just my stash-building personality; if I'm out of one print, I have the opportunity for the creative challenge of finding another that will work and add texture to the quilt, but often the viewer's eye isn't aware of the *detail* of that in my finished quilt; they just know they "like it"!
Jan in VA
03-16-2013, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by trolleystation
Be sure to 'square' your block after each log row. That way the block will not get away from you. I speak for experience ( a very wonky log cabin square).
03-18-2013, 01:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Pepita
I would really like to recommend that you cut your strips raw edge to raw edge, not selvage to selvage. You end up with a much more stable piece of fabric that works beautifully when piecing.
03-18-2013, 02:48 AM
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If you cut the logs so that the length is cut from length of fabric, they won't stretch. In other words, if you are cutting logs 4 1/2" long, cut a strip 4 1/2" x WOF, and then subcut into your log width. It's amazing how simple this is and how well it corrects the stretching problem!
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