Maybe a cooler more modern log cabin quilt blockвЂ¦ha. But the end result has the look of a log cabin quilt block. This pattern isnвЂ™t assembled quite like that.

Log Cabin blocks are called log cabin blocks because you continue to add вЂњlogsвЂќ to make the quilt block grow. In the end Lucky Log Cabins emerged and as soon as the quilt top was done, I couldnвЂ™t wait to try it again with other fabrics! And then every once in a while I would feel inspired to take that cut up bundle back out and play around. When I didnвЂ™t know what to do with it I would put it away. I donвЂ™t do that nearly enough but it really is an enjoyable process. I just started cutting into the bundle without any real plans and really enjoyed the process of playing with the fabric. This log cabin look alike quilt was inspired by a fat quarter bundle sitting in my stash that I didnвЂ™t know what to do with. I called it Lucky Log Cabins because the end result felt exactly cky рџ™‚ light or dark) is the same fabric, then you'll need as many fabrics as there are blocks to guarantee that two of the same don't end of touching each other.Lucky Log Cabins isnвЂ™t actually a true log cabin quilt but the end result comes out looking similar to the popular log cabin quilt block. If each pair of logs of the same value (i.e. Outside rounds and no worries about like fabrics touching in your log This way, there will be no duplicate fabrics in the Light fabrics for the outside 'round' of logs. You'll need strips from that many different It draws the eye where two like strips meet in an otherwise scrappy quilt, like the purple (left).ДЇor this scrappy design where every log is a different fabric, count the number of blocks you'll need for your quilt. You're halfway through quilting your quilt. The same fabric ends up on the outside of a block moreДЄnd as luck would have it, you find them 'touching' only after The colors, the prints are unimportant as long as the values of theДЇabrics you choose are consistently dark or consistently light.Д«ut no matter how many scraps you use, it never fails. Notice how the purple strips draw your eye. Need an odd number of rows and an even number of columns. To create a symmetrical quilt with this horizontal setting you'll Like the fields the pioneers plowed, this design emphasizes the straight In all of the Log Cabin quilt designs shown below the number of blocks in the rows and columns is underneath the image. Reminiscent of the pioneer times when this block first appeared inДЄmerican culture, sometime in the 1860's. While you can arrange your blocks any way you wish (and it's a lot ofДЇun!), there are several recognized layout designs with names And that's VERY important for all the designs below. With a good contrast between your 'light' and 'dark'ДЇabrics, the finished blocks have a strong diagonal line through theД¬enter. Again, the ultimate design choice is up to you! If you would prefer to have it 'lighter', then the first two logs you add should be dark. If the first two 'logs' you add are light fabrics,

Take a closer look and you will see that after theД¬enter red square, the next log was a light followed by another light and In a clockwise order, but really the most important thing is to make them all the same.ДЄll clockwise or all counter-clockwise. I learned to sew the Log Cabin by adding strips Is adding logs in one direction better than the other? The choice is up to you as to how much piecing you'd like to do. Ours has 7 rounds of logs added clockwise, but yours can be any number of rounds.

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