My first quilt was a quilt in the day log cabin when Eleanor Burns published her first book in the late 70's. That was before rotary cutters with the tearing of the strips leaving stretched edges and threads hanging-just makes me so appreciate the tools we have today. I love the method and have done probably lots and lots of variations in width of strips, layouts, etc.... I've done them with very planned colors and very scrappy. As a high school home economics teacher, I had students who wanted to make a baby quilt to keep for their future and had a few students who made large quilts, use the log cabin. When I work with ladies in my extension club to make a quilt we raffle for charities we donate to, we have used the log cabin quilt. Differences in each person's sewing doesn't show up as much, and by adding the last strips wider and squaring up the blocks, the overall look is great.