You have every intent to get something accomplished and it just does not work out that way. Had completed the center part of a log cabin block over the weekend, trimmed and ready to add the logs. Thought I would cut the first log to the correct length (different than the pattern states but I tend to do it my way most of the time anyway). Went to sew the first log on, came to realize I cut the wrong fabric. :shock:

Oh well, have extra fabric, no big deal. Cut and sewed on the two light color logs to the block. Went to fix my first mistake, yep have extra fabric, but ends up being one log short. Need 16, only fabric for 15. :x Not a large stash so have no other fabric at home. Guess I will put this on hold for a few days until I get to a LQS to get new fabric. Darn ;-)

Story of my life.

ps-I love your lava lamp.

Awww....svs this has happened to you. Yes, the same has happened to me without any extra fabric.

Sounds familiar! One of the reasons my stash is so large!

Oh I could have written this post. I thought I had cut the correct number of logs for a 9 block log cabin....got them all sewed together and was so excited until I laid it out on the floor and realized I only had 8 blocks. Searched through my scraps and didn't have enough of the matching fabric for the 9th block....just winged it the best I could. Have sewn the blocks together and was showing it to a quilting friend the other day and I asked her, "which one of the blocks is not like the others?" she had to study it for a moment and saw it.....I had no choice but to do what I did.

My next move will be to add several borders around it in coorindating fabrics to at least make it a good lap size quilt....then I'm going to try and quilt it myself on the machine.

At some point I want to go to LQS and get them to help me pick out fabric in the right amounts to make another Log Cabin the right way.....

Mine definitely qualifies for the adage....galloping by on a horse no one will see it.......

that's simply a design opportunity. And who is to say you didn't do it purposely or even purposefully? why travel the straight and narrow all the time?

Post a picture of your fabric,maybe someone on board will have some

Not worth the effort of everybody. I was already planning a trip to the LQS on Wednesday, so I will just make sure I add this to my list. If it were something that I had to have and could not find anywhere, I would, but it is a simple green fabric that can be replaced easily enough. Thanks.

When doing the log cabin I don't cut the individual logs try the strip method by Elenor Burns, a lot faster. and none of those miss cut logs.

Have not seen her method but I am thinking that this is how I was suppose to do it. Did not want to do it that way, just seemed odd to me. So now I get to go shopping to replace a fabric. That is alright, I look at it this way, if I do not learn something from a quilt that I make, then it is not 100% successful. May be 99%, but not 100% ;)