Need Quilting help for Log Cabin top
11-29-2012, 06:22 AM
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Need Quilting help for Log Cabin top
Hello! I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what pattern(s) to use for this log cabin quilt top for my mother. Its 96 x 96 so not a small quilt by any means.....at least for me its the largest one I've made. My mother doesn't care what I put on it so she's no help to me. I've tried to find other log cabin quilts for ideas but still nothing is catching my eye. I have a robotic system which I use most all the time.........in fact all the time as I had an 18 inches machine and just got a new 26" Innova this past Tuesday. I still have lots of practice to do but that's all the fun of a new toy. I'll be getting the robotics installed on her in December so I won't be starting the log cabin till the new year. Any suggestions would be helpful. Here's a photo of it. Sorry if the photo is so large. Haven't posted much here to know how to do it correctly. It was so large I had to lay it on the driveway to photograph it back when I lived in Florida. I'm now in Iowa.
Thanks,
Suz in Iowa
Thanks,
Suz in Iowa
11-29-2012, 06:54 AM
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Hi, I've made several log cabin quilts and this is how I quilt them. I quilt around the center square (some times called the chimney) then around each row of logs. What I end up with is a square within a square with in a square etc....I hope you can understand this. The finished effect is quite beautiful.......
11-29-2012, 07:16 AM
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I've seen a number of log cabin quilting patterns that quilt each block, in 2 patterns (one for the light, and one for the dark section). For example, a stitch-in -the-ditch for one side, and a feather in the other. I think something like this would be beautiful to accentuate your pattern.
11-29-2012, 07:29 AM
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Feathers would look great in the white space. Here's a close-up picture I took at Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in 2008 of Judy Martin's Snake River Log Cabin. I've put feathers in my log cabins, never quite this successfully.
11-29-2012, 03:54 PM
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The quilts posted are just marvelous!
But if you'd like to use a more traditional design, the Baptist Fan was commonly used on these quilts over 125 years ago.
Jan in VA
Shoot, wish the photo was larger.
But if you'd like to use a more traditional design, the Baptist Fan was commonly used on these quilts over 125 years ago.
Jan in VA
Shoot, wish the photo was larger.
Last edited by Jan in VA; 11-29-2012 at 03:58 PM.
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