Log cabin heart Block
 

I found this picture on Hancock fabrics website as a no-sew quilt magic kit and I fell in love with it. Does anyone know how to actually sew this pattern?
http://www.hancockfabrics.com/Log-Ca...VVviewprod.htm

It is very pretty.

What a nice block. I'm going to keep watching this thread.

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here is a link to a pattern called Log Cabin Heart http://www.quakertownquilts.com/log-...na-pelton.html

if you want one with smooth edges like on your link, i would say that you make a log cabin and cut it out with seam allowances and applique it to a background

If you google for heart patterns then you could put it together with a log cabin. I know there's some good patterns that give you a nice heart with the curves ... and some that are not totally rounded where you snowball the corners that can be quite effective (I've made them!)

I think this is a kit that has a foam board with the design cut in it. The kit also has the fabric with it but the tool that you need is extra. You can also get a frame that cost about the same as the kit. Sandy

Yes ........
QuiltGram wants to SEW it ... whereas this kit is for a no-sew project.

Make 4 partial log cabins for the corners. Make another with the red close in and cut out a heart to applique onto the white. Looks pretty simple.

I would do reverse applique. Turning under some white fabric to reveal the log cabin heart would be easier for me than doing needle turn applique on that heart with so many seams. JMHO

That looks interesting all right. But do you glue it together instead of sewing it?

I have made one of these in a different pattern and it is a foam board and you take the material and just punch in into the form. the pattern is printed on the board. all the material is included in the kit. it turns out beautiful but it is only something you can hang on the wall. You can not use it in a quilt. That said.......I love this pattern. I think that it could be made but you would have to paper piece it. you would have to copy the design on graph paper and then it could be put on paper piecing paper to make. It might be a lot of work but I think that it would be beautiful when it is done. I am thinking of trying it.

It looks like 4 log cabins in the background - then you could make a large log cabin then use the large one to cut a heart out of the shape and applique it on? Just an idea.

I started this in the morning but EQ kept freezing on me.
And then I gave up.

The construction of this is relatively easy, with a few options on how to approach it.

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First let's looks at the 4 blocks (Block A) that make up the background.

Assuming that you want to keep the same proportions as the kit from Hancocks,
you'll be dealing with 3/4" FINISHED logs,
each quarter block will be will be 7-1/2" FINISHED,
and the 4 blocks together, with the heart in the center, will FINISH at 15".

If you want to change the measurements, you just multiply your desired FINISHED log size by 10, and that will be the FINISHED block size.
You start with a square that is twice the size of a log.

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Note that most of the sizes listed below are FINISHED - remember to add 1/2" for the seam allowance.

So if the logs are 3/4", you start with a 1.5" FINISHED square (cut 2").
If you want the logs to be 1", for a 10" block, you start with a 2" FINISHED square (cut 2.5").

I'm not going into detail about the actual construction of the log cabin block.
You've got a few choices, and plenty of easily available information via Google searches.

You can paper piece/foundation piece the 4 blocks based on the drawing above - this allows you to easily add the white piece, and make sure the logs are added correctly and at a consistent size.
This is the method I personally would do.

Or you can make a complete log cabin block, turn it over, draw a SEWING line where you want to add the white piece.
It's easy enough to see in the diagram where it's supposed to go.
I would put Log Cabin block right sides together with a white square and sew on that line.
Cut 1/2" away (MAKE SURE you're cutting to the correct side of the sewing line).
This avoids working with any exposed bias.

Either method, or another of your choosing, make 4 of these blocks.
Sew the 4 blocks together with the white triangles towards the center.


For the heart log cabin block, the logs are the same size as above (whatever you decided on), except the middle log is also the same size. So it would be a 3/4" FINISHED square (cut 1-1/4").

As EQ was freezing on me so I couldn't draw the heart correctly.

The method I would use to make the heart would be to make a log cabin block (see block B).
Notice the color pattern is different.
If you turn the drawing on point, you can see how you the heart would be placed.


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Then I would take the template of a heart - you can draw your own, position it over the log cabin block, and cut out 1/4" away from the template.
Look at the Hancock's picture again for correct proportions and placement of the heart template.

Place and applique the heart shaped log cabin in the center of the white area on the joined blocks you made above.

And that's that.

I'd use the Penny Haren technique to applique the 4 patch with heart cutout onto the center block then sew the corner log cabin sections on.

Yes, this is a foam board quilt. You buy the supplies, use a tool to 'poke' the fabric into the foam. No sewing at all.

Thanks very much for this I've added it to my to do list (OH NO)

Why can't you just buy this kit and sew it instead of pushing it down into the foam board?

Reason 1:
$42 for a 15" inch wall hanging!?!?!??!?

This is not a quilt block that you sew. It comes with a plastic frame that has foam rubber in it, with slits cut out in this pattern.You use a tool like a plastic knife to push small pieces of fabric into those little slits. When you're finished, it looks like a sewn quilt block. You can hang them on walls or stand them on shelves. They're easy to make. I didn't buy the tool, I used a plastic knife that came with my grandson's play doh set.

If I have this right, this is a kit with a foam base & the pattern printed on it. You take pcs. of the fabric & press edges into the pattern lines with something thin like a butter knife. I've seem them at LQSs. They are pretty. And truly a NO SEWING project.

I would make 4 log cabins for the foundation.
A fifth LC would be for the center heart.
Using a white square for the reverse applique heart shape, cut out the center opening after first stay-stitching on the heart line. This will be turned under in the reverse applique.
Then you can either machine stitch the heart square to the background, one at a time (stop 1/4 inch short so you can finish the seam) OR applique the center heart square to the foundation blocks, having sewn them together.
Either way, I'd then cut away the excess underneath.

There are lots of ways to make this block.

And Eleanor Burns has an easy "Love the Log Cabin" heart block.

Love that block. So different.

Heart Log Cabin Block
 

MTS,

Thank you for the tute, i love log cabins also, i use to get the EQ and was up to 4 and stopped, don't know why i stopped.

I have always wanted to do a log cabin and have been daving the fabric to do it. I love reds so that is what i keep collecting

That is correct, but I have seen them cheaper somewhere. Will keep looking.

I think the block is made using a foam block and the fabric pieces arepushed into the slots or groves. Clotilde.com has them for Christmas season a lot cheaper at $24.98 Hope this helps. I remember seeing it done on HGTV when they carried all the craft shows.

Hi I just love this wall hanging it is made on foam board per set up it is a kit. However if you would llike a log cabin style heart you can find one in a book "still stripping after 25 years by eleanor burns. I just found a block she calls by many names on of them is in this book "my heart bleeds for you" also "broken heart" it is a little diffrent then this one I do think you can use the idea of the one to make the other. good luck happy quilting yippie

Found a log cabin heart block by Eleanor Burns: http://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponlin...lay.asp?i=1527

In this next link, scroll down to near the end of the screen: http://texasmomquilts.wordpress.com/.../small-quilts/

This fabric is precut and gets tucked into a foam base. Very pretty

Hi I am a newbie---but I think in my meandering I have seen a way that this was done.
It was a foam block that has slits in it and you cut your fabric and tuck it into the slits.
This girl was a quilter from another country and she did an amazing and beautiful clock
this way. Absolutely beautiful. I had thought of trying it. I think you will love it!!

how to sew block
 

actually, you con't sew it. you press the pieces into the foam board.

Yes, that is where I saw it at.

Love the look of that log cabin heart block
Thanks MTS for the EQ tutorial.
Eleanor Burns' "Still Stripping" has a nice heart log cabin heart also-

Eleanor Burns had a show on this past week with her easy to make log cabin heart.

"Reason 1:
$42 for a 15" inch wall hanging!?!?!??!?"

Ahhh now I understand.