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    Old 08-23-2010, 05:40 PM
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    Originally Posted by justme2
    Had always admired log cabin quilts.So after getting my feet wet by piecing a couple tops,it was time to make my fav.
    A mag article saying log cabin quilts were soooo easy & great for beginners was all it took.
    Knowing nothing about fabric grain,squaring blocks or using a quarter inch seam...a straight seam, you can imagine the results.
    It was a few yrs & a few quilts later before I stopped admiring long enough to admit what a wonky quilt it was.

    That was 20 yrs ago & I've never had the nerve to make another LC:-)
    I did a log cabin early on in my quilting (ok I have only been quilting 9 years) but then I tried one I found in a McCalls quilting magazine. It took a total of 1072 strips, and it scared the life outta me trying it. But it turned out so well that I did a second one and now I think I might like to do another!
    One pattern that almost made me quit before I started was the first pieced quilt I ever made----a bargello heart! I nearly gave up a dozen or more times and oh how I cried! But as you can see from the photo, it turned out ok. A few years later I made my second bargello heart and couldn't imagine why I thought it was hard the first time!

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    Old 08-23-2010, 06:37 PM
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    Ladies, buy the Eleanor Burns "log Cabin in a Day" and follow the directions precisely and you will find it turns out just fine. She has lots of "In a Day" books and I have found them all to be great. I do lots of complex quilts too and I still love Eleanor Burns, she is the greatest!

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    Old 08-23-2010, 06:37 PM
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    Ladies, buy the Eleanor Burns "log Cabin in a Day" and follow the directions precisely and you will find it turns out just fine. She has lots of "In a Day" books and I have found them all to be great. I do lots of complex quilts too and I still love Eleanor Burns, she is the greatest!

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    Old 08-23-2010, 08:42 PM
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    One of the first quilts I made was a log cabin, it turned out terrible(I was seven), I made it for my Gram, the blocks weren't square, the rows weren't even, it was very scrappy, and at the time I thought it was great, so did gram. Later on after I had learned more, I tried another one, I never finished it and I didn't even keep it for a ufo, I think I have kept every other ufo, so you know it had to be terrible. I never liked the log cabin after that, but actually I did just figured I wasn't good enough to do one. Well three years ago I got a challenge to use up some Halloween fabric with ghouls and ghosts and witches in grays blacks and oranges, so I made a log cabin out of it. now it's my favorite quilt to sleep with. I guess I've gotten better at precision, because it went together like a dream.

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    Old 08-23-2010, 11:46 PM
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    I am going to do one of these one of these days, thank you for the heads up, and God bless.
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    Old 08-24-2010, 02:10 AM
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    Have never made a jelly roll quilt.After buying jelly rolls,I wondered what I was going to do with them & ended up just using a strip here & there.Hate, hate it when a planned project goes belly up!


    Originally Posted by ajonkarl
    Not to be a spoilsport but there is another topic thread about a super easy jelly roll quilt. Sounded like fun so I started one. Well, I couldn't chain piece, so that I didn't enjoy. Then I got all the strips (40) sewn in a long length and had a big twisted pile on the floor. It was a nightmare for me. I finally started whacking off lengths for the width of quilt I wanted and started sewing those lengths together. It sits half done, maybe I will make a small quilt instead!
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    Old 08-24-2010, 02:11 AM
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    Beautiful wreath !

    Originally Posted by Tudey
    Originally Posted by justme2
    Had always admired log cabin quilts.So after getting my feet wet by piecing a couple tops,it was time to make my fav.
    A mag article saying log cabin quilts were soooo easy & great for beginners was all it took.
    Knowing nothing about fabric grain,squaring blocks or using a quarter inch seam...a straight seam, you can imagine the results.
    It was a few yrs & a few quilts later before I stopped admiring long enough to admit what a wonky quilt it was.

    That was 20 yrs ago & I've never had the nerve to make another LC:-)
    I did a log cabin early on in my quilting (ok I have only been quilting 9 years) but then I tried one I found in a McCalls quilting magazine. It took a total of 1072 strips, and it scared the life outta me trying it. But it turned out so well that I did a second one and now I think I might like to do another!
    One pattern that almost made me quit before I started was the first pieced quilt I ever made----a bargello heart! I nearly gave up a dozen or more times and oh how I cried! But as you can see from the photo, it turned out ok. A few years later I made my second bargello heart and couldn't imagine why I thought it was hard the first time!
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    Old 08-24-2010, 02:19 AM
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    Originally Posted by justme2
    Had always admired log cabin quilts.So after getting my feet wet by piecing a couple tops,it was time to make my fav.
    A mag article saying log cabin quilts were soooo easy & great for beginners was all it took.
    Knowing nothing about fabric grain,squaring blocks or using a quarter inch seam...a straight seam, you can imagine the results.
    It was a few yrs & a few quilts later before I stopped admiring long enough to admit what a wonky quilt it was.

    That was 20 yrs ago & I've never had the nerve to make another LC:-)
    I love log cabins, but I had the same experience as you with a Pam Bono pattern. After cutting out 4,578,000 :mrgreen: pieces, I found out that they wouldn't go together like the pattern called for. I threw the whole thing in a bag and threw it in the back of the closet, and as god is my witness, I will never do a Pam Bono again! LOL So I can totally understand your pain!!
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    Old 08-24-2010, 02:36 AM
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    Will add PM to MY list :-)
    I love log cabins, but I had the same experience as you with a Pam Bono pattern. After cutting out 4,578,000 :mrgreen: pieces, I found out that they wouldn't go together like the pattern called for. I threw the whole thing in a bag and threw it in the back of the closet, and as god is my witness, I will never do a Pam Bono again! LOL So I can totally understand your pain!![/quote]
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    Old 08-24-2010, 04:49 AM
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    Yep, count me in as someone who tried the "easy quilt pattern" the log cabin and had a horrible time with it. I don't thing I would have quilted one other quilt had that been my very first try.
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