Never tried log cabin, but I'll never understand why "Warm Wishes" is considered easy.

I have a book on "woodpile" blocks, the easier log cabin. Some beautiful designs and guaranteed to be easy. I just don't care for log cabin's for me.

I did a log cabin recently, made it completely scrappy which was much too much complicated for me, and then the blocks weren't square. Arggghhh!

But, when I sewed them together, it all came out right, and make a nice quilt. So would I do it again? Yes, but forget the scrappy!

Here are links to the two I've done:

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...01604069Sumfpf

and

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...01604069wCfvkU

If you look at all the seams that are piled one after another in a log cabin block, you can see how easy it is to mess up. If each seam were only a thread or two off and you add each up, then the whole block would be majorly off.

Log cabin blocks really are NOT for the beginner.

Oh, my - you did beautiful work.
Loved the fern in the background, too. My mother had one on a pedestile where the frons went clear to the floor - Me? - I get them home and they die.
Dodee

I think all of us had this problem in the beginning (and still do). Just remember, the more you do, (practice makes semi-perfect) the better your blocks will look. Remember, this is supposed to be fun! Just relax and enjoy the process.

I would PP this one too :D:D:D

I love paper piecing log cabin blocks... would never do a log cabin without it!

Makes me think of my sister. When I first started quilting 20 years ago, my sister wanted one. She didnt even own a machine and thought if I could do it she could---without even taking the classes that I took!

She went to Joann's and bought a pattern from the EZ Quilt Company thinking it was easy....NOT!!!! And proceeded to buy all the fabric to make a KING!! This thing was very pretty but had all these HST's. Then she cut ALL the fabric with no regard to bias or accurate 1/4 inch allowances. What's the dif if it's 1/8 or 1/4 or 3/8, she said.

She is just starting out, newly married and this was alot of money for her to spend. She comes crying to me with this disaster in tubs. It took me two years to salvage it into something that was still pitiful but done.

Any time somebody says this is an easy quilt, I just cringe.

I've always used the Quilt-in-a-day method for log cabins and have made dozens over the years. I think the trick is to add one light and one dark, then square all your blocks to the same size as you go along. I always found it a very forgiving pattern, allowing you to fudge things in, rather than rip out and re-sew.

I am not a fan of paper piecing - Love the look, but if I wanted that kind of aggravation, I would have stayed with my ex!