To continue or should I scrap and start over
#71
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: The Deep South near Cajun Country, USA
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I feel your frustration. Quilting should be fun, but we do get to rip more than we want. lol I love the LC blocks, but haven't done many. The first time I did one, we made a copy of the block pattern & taped in a small piece of the material that went in each area. I , also, wrote in the number sequence of the sewing. I was doing a "quilt as you go", so couldn't chain piece. As I sewed, I turned that piece of paper every time I sewed on a new fabric strip. The key was to get the first 4 pieces with the red in the center & two darks together on joining sides of the center, then two lights on the other sides of the center. Yours, unfortunately, has 3 lights on the red center & 1 dark. Hope that makes sense. Your quilt color choices will look gorgeous once you get one going right.
Just picture your block with the red & light in the center ripped out, then replaced in the block with the red in the dark blue corner. Then the only other piece that would need to be moved is the last dark on the top, to the bottom. That would put all the darks together & all the lights together.
Probably too much info. Keep up the good work!
Just picture your block with the red & light in the center ripped out, then replaced in the block with the red in the dark blue corner. Then the only other piece that would need to be moved is the last dark on the top, to the bottom. That would put all the darks together & all the lights together.
Probably too much info. Keep up the good work!
#74
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 150
when I learned to do the log cabin the instructor had us put each dark and light of the same length in a baggie (starting after the middle) when you picked up your piece whether dark or light you should be sewing over 2 seams then it is on the correct side. We did this as a chain until the bag was empty. Then went to the next baggie (size strip) and continued. I think as long as you look to see that you are always sewing over 2 seams you will be OK. This may have muddied it more for you. But it helped me, course that was hands on instruction.
#76
I thought log cabins were supposed to be done in either a clock-wise or counter clockwise rotation - not both. Looks to me like after your third strip you switched directions from CCW to CW? Maybe I'm the one whose all mixed up =---= I don't know - just my humble opinion.
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