Quilty Question, suggestions welcome, PLEASE
 

Hi All,

I have a question and am in need of suggestions please. I made a Log Cabin quilt and want to quilt it, what should I do? Stitch in the ditch? All over pantograph? Curves?? I have done other quilts and never have done a Log Cabin. I really appreciate you help, in advance.. RoundRobinP. ie. Robin

I had Charisma quilt feathers all over mine. I love it!

I prefer the Baptist Fan design for log cabin quilts; it's an old tradition one.
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Jan in VA

I'll be starting one soon, I was going to quilt it by hand and quilt through each log strip, i'm open to suggestions

Agree with Jan & Katier ... feathers or baptist fan are both good choices.

Generally speaking when I'm faced with a quilt that is all angles I like to soften it with curved quilting, and when faced with a quilt with all curves ... I like to throw in angles. Mixed quilts can be either ... or mixed :)

Another option is to quilt a whole design into the quilt ... for example a butterfly that covers most of the quilt and a filler around the butterfly to cover to the edges. Because the design moves across all of your light and dark areas, and log cabins are typically rather busy, you probably won't even see the design from the front. But from the back you have a whole cloth quilt.

I recently took some feathering classes with Carole Sturgis. Her recommendation is to stitch ESS (Every Stinkin' Seam) before doing the decorative quilting. In the case of the log cabin, she would stitch in the ditch along every seam and then add feathering or whatever design she would use. That stabilizes the quilt before feathering.

I like Jan's idea. The Baptist Fan would soften all those angles.

I don't quilt ESS (every stinking seam) but I do quilt a grid, usually every 4 blocks of the log cabin, to stablilize. Then I really like to have some swirl or curve action. Baptist fans are a classic approach, but you usually have to mark the quilt, and I'm often lazy about the marking, so the last few log cabins I've done have had a lot of free motion, improv swirling and spiraling designs.

I did the same ... love it!

I have a king size log cabin and it is hand quilted thru each piece. I know, a lot of work, but I paid $8 for it at the Salvation Army. I am copying it in the aquas for my son's wedding, at least I have most of the fabric. I would show you a pic but I never put pics on here yet. It is really a different pattern too. I cannot find the pattern anywhere. It turns and turns, there are only 4 different log cabin blocks, and seems to end in a heart. I am sorry I don't know how to put the pic on. If someone wants me to email a pic, please send me a private message. You would love it.