Log cabin quilts

A tutorial on how to make easily a Log Cabin block, without calculating the length of the strips.

Vintage-inspired log cabin quilt made by Amy Smart featuring lots of retro-reproduction fabrics and scraps in a pastel color pallette.

Hello and happy Monday! Today I’m happy to share a tutorial for how I make my favorite scrappy log cabin blocks! My directions are for my favorite size…an 8″ finished (8 ½″ unfinished) block. I like this size because it utilizes small pieces of fabric, it goes together quickly, and it’s a great size for […]

Today Christine Baker of Fairfield Road Designs shows us how versatile log cabin blocks can be when making a quilt. She continues to work on her bed runner and shares the next steps in her free pattern.

Today we're going to put together an easy Log Cabin quilt. The Log Cabin block is a traditional block that has lots of different layout options. Generally half of the block is light and the other half is dark. But you can use contrasting colors - like pink and blue - or even lots of prints but all in one color.

The log cabin quilt block design is a classic! Learn to sew log cabin blocks to make a beautiful quilt or something else like potholders or a tote bag.

I don’t know about anyone else when they were planning their queen bee block, but I had such consternation. I first picked out a block and I wanted to make changes to fit an idea in my head. I made a test block, and didn’t like it.This morning inspiration struck, how about a LOG CABIN. Many years ago as an aspiring quilter, not actually sewing, just reading books and patterns. It might have been in the early 2000s, I read a quilt pattern book and there was a log cabin pattern called Sunshine…

Update: It's been over two years since this post and now my manager, Maggie is retiring, so I thought I'd put a link to her retirement quilt here. My manager, Maggie, began a tradition to give a quilt to everyone who retires and when I learned to quilt I volunteered to be her helper. Maggie (and her daughter) pieced together this beautiful log cabin quilt. It took my breath away as I did the machine quilting. It is so pretty that I took out pinks on hand and will probably not be able to…

Hello there, I know that like me, many of you are big, big Tilda fans. Some of my lovely readers first heard of the beautiful world of Tilda through Shabby Art Boutique and I’m thrilled that I was able to share that with you. Soooo…. I’m especially excited to share some fabulous Tilda news with you today! The lovely people at Tilda have offered up the last 3 Tilda quilts as free patterns on their website… in collaboration with Linda Clements, who has put together the instructions in English…