Quilt group challenge
 

My quilt group has given us a challenge to make a 24" x 30" one block small quilt.
It can be any block you like - not necessarily a kaleidoscope one block wonder.
Because of the size - I wondered about a 6" log cabin - but what would you
do with that challenge ?
Thanks for any thoughts.

how about an enormous ten minut block and you can twiddle all those sections to do other things.

A 6" Drunkard's path block can be made into almost 100 different 4x4 patterns (arrangements) and many that work 4x5 as well. You could pick one you like and add a 3" border, top and bottom.

I might do a log cabin that is twisted so that it has more character to it and fits the rectangular size. I would also do it in bright funky fabrics. Enjoy your challenge.

Think about the words in the challenge. You said it is "a one block quilt 24" x 30" . It does not say...make a small quilt using one quilt block design....what would you design if you made "one block" that was 24 x 30 size. I did a guild challenge one time that the theme was circles. Instead of manking a double wedding reig I did a piece showing the circle of life of the butterfly...the challenge only said circles. So think bout what the words say .

I would just applique something! A pot of flowers. Of course you could do an Improv, just sew together odd ball scraps and TaDA!

I see Holice's point, but wonder about the non-square size. It seems to 'block' the challenge (pun intended) if a single block was the intent.

How about taking a four patch block that is made up of only HSTs, like Dutchman's Puzzle, and making a 6" log cabin block to use in place of each HST. You'd wind up with one block (the Dutchman's Puzzle) made from 16 other 'one' blocks (the Log Cabins). That would cover both possible interpretations of the challenge...or would it just be a two block quilt that way? And you'd still have to fudge the extra six inches.

Re: your log cabin idea

How about piecing a picture of a log cabin, in the middle of your log cabin block? By making the center picture rectangular, instead of square, you could easily obtain your 24" x 30", while keeping it just one block. Here's a block I made, years ago (for future sampler-type quilt). The block is actually square but I was holding camera at an angle, to eliminate a shadow. Anyway, you could make the center "picture" wider or taller, to turn it into a rectangle, then add as many rows of "logs" as you need, for size.
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Modern block
 

Please excuse my drawing. The dark areas represent a medium or dark fabric and the white areas would be a light fabric. Just two colors are used. I saw a quilt in a Modern Quilt book a couple of years ago and fell in love with it. It is constructed the same way a log cabin quilt is constructed. The one I saw was in turquoise and white and was probably a lap size However, a person could draft out any size they wanted. I call it a square spiral. I found it just breathtaking, so clean and modern looking

Sounds good. What layout would you use?

Looks like a winner to me. You could do one log cabin and very easily adjust it to being a bit taller than wide.

Go for it.

And I love the ground sides and the sky sides. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS!

The way I'd intrepret "one block quilt" is that anything goes as long as its only one block. So you could do 3" block with a BUNCH of borders. Or one big 24 x30 block

How about an attic window?

Or a hanky butterfly with embroidered head and antenna added?

Did the directions mean that the block was to be 24 x 30

- OR -

did it mean to make a square block that could be as small as 24 x 24 or as large as 30 x 30 or somewhere in between?

I guess I'm semi-illiterate but one block quilt sounds like a quilt that is made up of ONE block only. What ONE block would I make? Carpenter's wheel with borders to meaure out to 24 x 30

HOWEVER, the log cabin with a log cabin inside that is more rectangular than square is a fantastic solution,IMO

Hi everyone, thank you all so much for your kind replies- this is the wording from my grops website - re the challenge


Take your favourite block and make a small wall hanging with it.

Are you going to use it as it comes or flip it, enlarge or distort it, cut it up and re-arrange it, make it in a variety of different sizes, fabrics, techniques – just what are you going to do with it? The choice is yours! You can use any technique you like – hand or machine, piece it, appliqué, print, stamp, quilt it, layer & slash....

I thought I would try and do 6 inch log cabins and arrange them in a pleasing way - or hexagons ?
I did like your log cabin grannie annie. !
Thanks again for taking the trouble to reply !

OOH and sorry left out 24" x30" inch portrait size.

Not my log cabin at all. I'm not that clever. I just love it for achieiving the 24 x 30.

These guidelines are quite different from the opening post.

Here's the log cabin in a log cabin and the original poster!

I know - I didn't write the original details that well !!!!!!! ha.

Okay, Dotty. Your challenge, as I read it, is to take your favorite block and "change it up" a bit. (my words!)

I'm still trying to sell Nessie's log cabin in a log cabin. How about making 4 blocks, each 12" wide and 15" long. Top row-------for winter & spring
Bottom row---for summer and fall
..............or however you want to arrange them

Nessie's block has darks making the "grass" and lights making the sky. To carry some consistancy, make the top row (and the bottom) mirror images, having both skys toward the center of the row and the grass the outsides.

MAYBE
snowy white on whites for the lights on winter, with a brownish, greenish grass, mabye with flecks of white to show snow.
For spring, a sky blue with a lot of white, and more lime green grass showing new life.
For summer, a bit brighter blue with plenty of white, and regular old grassy greens for the grass.
For fall, sky pieces with more yellow tones and then golden tan with bits of fallen leaf colors

For the log cabin itself, perhaps stay in the golden, woody tones. Each season's cabin could have a slighlty differnt tone-----------indicating different sun intensities. And make the chimneys slightly different dark reds.

In fact, I considered making 4 seasons hanging when I first saw Nessie's log cabin.

I think you'd be up for some award.

WOW - that sounds absolutely fantastic !!! what inspiration you have put in my mind --- thank you thank you !

Just make sure you know exactly what "one block" means. A block with borders could mean medallion to some. I would ask for clarification before you make the quilt. Names can be tricky. One block could mean - a block of concrete, a block of wood, a crossing guard blocking the street. I would think if it means using one block design for the top, then that block must stand alone not part of a larger unit such as drunkards path. You can see from the many answers that it can mean many things,,but what do the rules say. Using 4log cabin blocks to show the seasons is using 4 blocks and not one block. See what I mean.

If you read the real DIRECTIONS which were posted later, you'll see the poster assumed a bit. She's supposed to use a block she likes to make a quilt--------------a block with some special twists and turns.