"Anything goes" log cabin project now a top

 Good day and welcome to my blog of quilty things.

This past week I picked up a project I started in Feb. 2025 - a set of log cabin blocks.  I used what I had available: mostly civil war reproduction fabrics but also leftovers from other projects.  Therefore, the title, Anything Goes.  

Start of project is described HERE.

The blocks finish at 10 inches square and my top now looks like this:

About 50 by 70 inches in size, plus a narrow border.

A close up:

And I am getting smarter:  I cut, pressed, and rolled the binding for this quilt.

It will have a label in that baggie too.  What project, size of project, length of binding, and date.

P.S. I saw this in a local used bookstore, in the quilting and crafts section:

Quilting is not for the weak!

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Doll quilt top

 Good day, and welcome to my somewhat neglected blog.  I have been busy in my day job and haven't had time to do much sewing or quilting.  But i have a little top to share today.

I have signed up for the doll quilt exchange on Lori's Humble Quilts blog (The sign ups are closed now.)  In this you make a doll quilt that looks as though it has time traveled from the past, and send it out.  Another person makes a doll quilt for you.  So reproduction fabrics it is, and I have plenty of those.

I had in mind using leftovers from one of my recent projects, and I searched my disorganized sewing area.  I found only a few squares - much less leftovers than I thought.  But I did find a box of one inch strips left over from a Courthouse Steps quilt I made a long time ago:

Yes, one inch strips, finishing at 0.5 inches.  I also found 2 leftover blocks from that project, and the beginnings of two more blocks.  So I finished the two partial blocks, and now have a little top:

That will finish at about 15.5 inches square.  My hand quilting skills are not what they used to be, so I think machine quilting and machine binding for this little top.  I am ahead of the game - deadline for sending is early May.

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New start: "Anything goes" log cabin blocks

 Good Day and welcome to my blog.  It is a warmish February day in the American Midwest.

In Fall of 2024 I had a cutting party.  I pulled out my reproduction fabrics, and what I had handy, and cut strips and blocks for several projects.  This past weekend I decided to do something with my 1.5 inch strips, hanging out in two shoeboxes - light and dark strips.

There they are: a variety of dark fabrics, light shirting prints (reproduction fabrics), and the red fabric I am using for the center block.  I have a lot of reproduction fabrics.

This past weekend I started on this project.  The lights are pretty light, and the dark fabrics are "anything goes".  I started a set of 28 blocks, and this is as far as I got:

Several more rounds to go.  Then I'll see how these turn out, then start another set.

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Sea breeze: A quilt for Grandma

 Good Day and welcome to my blog.

My mother in law, grandmother to my children, has been feeling poorly lately.  So I decided to make her a quilt (of course, as that is what we quilters do).  She hasn't been able to go to her favorite beach in Florida for a few years.  So when I saw a jelly roll and fabric with watery fabrics, and shell fabrics, I knew that would work for her gift.

I wanted to make log cabin blocks, with more subtle value contrast between the dark and light logs.  And the jelly roll had a good number of medium value strips.

Darks in the middle but more medium fabrics to the top and bottom.  I started the log cabin blocks with a very light center, very light fabrics on one side, and medium fabrics for the 'dark' side.  And the lights moved towards medium values, and the darks moved to darker values.

I arranged the blocks this way at first:

No, I didn't like that.  So try a streak of lightning set:

Yes that is what I did, and the picture above shows the top with borders attached.

Now it is back from the long arm quilter I use.  Trimmed but not bound yet:

The binding will be the same fabric as the outer border.  No, can't see the quilting, which is a pattern of shells and sand dollars.  The fabrics are quite busy.

A peek of the back, shells on a beach wide back fabric from Backside Fabrics:

I hope to bind this tomorrow or the next day, and get this to Grandma soon.

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Current progress on 2 inch squares projects

 Hello, and welcome to my blog.  After the rush of the holidays I was able to get back to my sewing area and make some progress.

I had two shoe boxes overflowing with 2 inch fabric strips and squares, and I made a a top using the Clean Up pattern, by Quilted Twins.  It is described in my previous blog post.  This did not deplete the shoe boxes very much, and I made another top using the 2 inch fabric squares and a constant sage green fabric.  It looks like this:

And a close up view: 

This top is now about 53 by 67 inches.  It used up scraps at a slower rate, so this is what my shoe boxes look like now:

Argh.  I am now prepping 2 inch squares for a quilt block 5 by 5 squares, with some narrow sashing, which ought to use these squares faster.  Let's make lots of blocks!  That's this week's project.

I also got distracted by a new project.  I purchased a jelly roll of ocean fabric and I am making log cabin blocks, along with my Stashbuster group.  The image below shows 15 bigger blocks, and a pile of 5 blocks that got lost behind the sewing machine, and need some more strips sewn on.  I am waiting on an infusion of more fabric from this fabric line.

The jelly roll had many strips of medium value, so it's been a fun challenge.  That's my update for this week.

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Teal log cabin quilt - a finish

 A finish - and it's one of my oldest UFO's!

I was living in Chicago in 1993, and a local church had a quilt show, and would allow you to display (over church pews) unfinished as well as finished items.  This project dates from that time period, and has a label on the back to prove it.

I had started hand quilting much of the quilt, so that needed to be finished up.

Note: logs in the log cabin pattern finish at 0.5 inches.

Next: how to bind the quilt?  Did I have any of the teal fabric in my stash?  Amazingly, I did.  Pieces of the border fabric (on upper right) and other fabric used in the quilt:

The final quilt, about 41 by 41 inches square:

And the backing:  a cotton -poly blend fabric that I loved at the time, and still like.  Made in the USA it said on the selvage.

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Blue and white log cabin quilt is done and bound

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  Gosh I have been busy in my day job.  However, I did get my blue and white log cabin quilt back from the long arm quilter I love to use.  It sat for a few weeks but I did trim it this past weekend and bound it.

Start of project (Nov. 2023) described in this post.

Finishing the top (Jan. 2024) described in this post.

It is 100 by 100 inches - super big for me!  I bound the quilt in a blue reproduction calico and made just enough binding:

I use This Method to bind my quilts.  With her pictures, you can't go wrong.  You can see the swirling feathers pattern my long arm quilter did.  Wool batting, so it shows up well.

A picture of half the quilt:

And a close up:

This quilt is destined for our queen bed, here shown without pillows:

Yes, it's time to get some new curtains and a new bed skirt.  They are on order.  It feels great to get this quilt done!

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Blue and White Log Cabin top is DONE

Good day, and welcome to my blog.

This behemoth project is now assembled and ready to go to the long arm quilter!

In recent days I have finished adding logs to the 100 10 inch blocks (finished size), trimmed them all (yes all 100) as my seam allowance varied and some were a little too big.  I then set groups of 4 blocks together as described in an initial post on this project.

Even trimming doesn't always help.

Those blue logs are supposed to line up, and the edge of the blocks should line up too!  Precision and accuracy are so important when the logs finish at 1 inch wide.

Anyway, 9 groupings:

And 12 units together: 

Final size is 5 by 5 blue units, for 10 by 10 block setting or 100 by 100 inches.  Yes it's a behemoth, and my sewing area floor cannot show it all:

This top contains many different fabrics, but I have used just dark blue/navy fabrics, and white/cream/beige fabrics, and constant yellow centers.  I am so happy to have this done, and ready to take to the long arm quilter, probably next week.

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Green and white baby quilt: Almost done!

 Hello and welcome to my quilt blog!  I have been working away at this Green and White baby quilt, because the baby is due Jan. 24 2024 - but we know babies come on their own schedule.

The beginning of the project is described HERE.

I managed to get the 4 by 5 foot quilt to my long armers and she was able to fit it in.  Her Christmas rush was over.

Here is a view of the top:

Straight furrow setting.  And a close up:

Reproduction fabric - I have a lot of it!  Green and white are the colors of the nursery.  The quilt is back from the quilter's today, quilted with hearts and swirls.

Now for trimming and binding.  The quilt will go with the new grandma and grandpa as they travel to be with mom and dad for the birth.

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Green and white baby quilt start

 Good day, and welcome to my blog!

A new addition to the extended family is due later in January to my nephew and his wife.  I have started a project in the colors of their nursery.  And since I have the log cabin pattern on my mind,  I started green and white blocks:

In reproduction fabrics - I have a lot in my stash.  Logs finish at 1.5 inches, the block is 12 inches, finished.  I like the look of 4 together:

But I suspect I will set the blocks in the straight furrow setting.  I have 20 blocks for a 4 by 5 set.

I have fabric for the backing, which is not a reproduction fabric, but is so cute!

Now to wash the backing fabric, and push on with getting the front of the quilt done.  Then off to the local long arm quilter I have used before - she does a great job.

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Blue and white log cabin project start

 Good day, and welcome to my blog!

I have made several log cabin quilts recently, and I have started another one - in blue and white, with a yellow center.  I am using my large stash of reproduction fabric - late 1800's and early 1900's style.

The 'logs' are 1 inch wide, finished.  The block is 10 inches square, finished.  Here is how four blocks together look:

My previous log cabin quilts have been set in a straight furrow setting but I am liking this arrangement!

Since I have my blue and white fabrics out I also starting cutting for Bonnie Hunter's Silk Path pattern.  No measurements here - check out her pattern for sale.  All strips, no triangles!

I have also started a green and white log cabin project - a baby quilt.  This one has a deadline - late January the baby is due!  More on this in a later blog posting.

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Pink and white quilt done!

 Good day and welcome to my blog.  I have been away for a week, as I had nothing new to show anyone.  But now I do:  The behemoth pink and white log cabin quilt is done, done:

This photo shows just a portion of the 90 by 100 inch quilt.  I hope you can see the feathers that the long arm quilter that I use has quilted in.

A closer look:

It is labeled with my name, date, place, and a note that this was finished in Covid time.  

This quilt is now on my bed.  It has wool batting and is so cozy.  It's definitely appreciated this January.

I unearthed a 2.5 yard piece of pink reproduction fabric (not used in the quilt) for binding.  That led to the unearthing of an old UFO.  But more on that next week.  :-)

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Pink and white log cabin top: it's going to be a big quilt

Hello and welcome to my blog.  I have been busy at my day job, and busy off and on in my sewing room.  Many pink and white strips have been sewn together to make 10.5 inch (unfinished) log cabin blocks.  Imagine my dismay when I measured some blocks and many were 10.75 inches, and some were 10.5 inches. Clearly I need to work on sewing an exact 1/4 inch seam.  And my dismay when the clear plastic shoeboxes I use to hold my strips were still half full after I was done!  I do tend to not count pieces and to overcut.

I went ahead and sewed the blocks together, following the seam allowances of the smaller blocks, and if some outer 'logs' are a little bit skinnier, no one will notice.  I finished on Monday night.  It's a monster quilt top, for me!  9 by 10 blocks, or 90 by 100 inches:

Only a portion of the top.  My floor space is about 70 by 90 inches.  Curiously (or not) most of my bigger quilts are 70 by 90 inches.

A close up:

Many different reproduction pinks, shirtings, cream fabrics here.  

On Tuesday I took this top and backing fabric to the long arm quilter I use.  She will add swirling feathers to this, and use a wool batt.

Next: I am not done with the log cabin pattern.  I have many blue and brown Civil War reproduction fabrics to bust.  That is my next project to cut before the New Year.

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Pink and white log cabin: progress report

Hello and welcome to my blog.

I reported in a previous post the start of this project: a log cabin quilt top in reproduction pink and white fabrics.  I dug deep into my stash. I have been very busy in my day job the past two weeks, but I managed to finish some blocks to show today:

Each log finishes at one inch wide, and the finished block will be 10 inches square.

Laid out as I hope to set them:

This is very similar to a red and white log cabin quilt I finished earlier this year.  I like the stair step look of this straight furrows setting.  This is just the beginning, I have quite a bit more sewing to do!  I cut many many white and pink strips.  I hope to have a 80 inch by 90 inch quilt, maybe even larger!  It too will go to a local long arm quilter for quilting, and I will bind later.

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Why not a new project?

 I wrote last week about a finished quilt top - off to the long arm quilter soon.  Why not start a new project?  Yes, why not?

I have in mind a pink and white or cream log cabin quilt similar to the red and white log cabin I posted previously.  These strips are cut 1.5 inches wide for a finished width of 1 inch.  There is actually a pretty tall stack of strips here.  All of these pink strips fill a shoe box fully - which means that with the white strips to come, I will have enough for a 70 by 90 inch quilt, easy, if not larger.  Going through my extensive stash of pink fabrics, mostly reproduction double pinks, has been soothing in this crazy election season.  Now to attack my white and cream shirting fabrics!  You can see I have started on them.

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A finish: Red and white log cabin

 Hello and welcome.

I have been working on this off and on.  Started in December 2019, and blogged about in this post.  I finally took it to be long armed quilted this year.  It recently came back, looking lovely with quilted swirling feathers on a wool batting that puffs up so nicely.

No borders; I bound with a red fabric I had saved for just this purpose.  About 70 by 90 inches.

And a close up view:

The logs finish at 1 inch wide.  I bind by sewing the binding to the back, flipping it over to the front and pressing then pinning, then top stitching down with a closely matching thread.

I like this one so much I have put it on my bed, and slept under it last night and the night before.  Heavenly!

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Tuesday quilt in progress Dec. 18

Hello and welcome!
In this busy holiday season, I am finding time to work on my current project, a log cabin quilt.
I finished the blocks in 2017 and didn't want to trim them up at that time.
Well, early this month I pulled them out and trimmed them square (though not all to the same size).  I was as careful as I could be in sewing them, but I found I did have some variation in size!
Well, after trimming, I might as well set them on the floor and audition a zig zag design.
And since they are laid out, I might as well sew them together, right?
And find that border fabric I set aside for this project.
And then cut and add the border.
And layer it up, and pin baste.
And start quilting it on my own machine.

I am still in the midst of quilting this sandwich, but I am over half done!  Some problems with tension but I am doing OK.  It's about 80 by 75 inches, so a bit of a struggle to shove through the harp of my trusty old Kenmore.
All reproduction fabric in this one, some of my favorites:

(Pictures taken when it was just a top.)

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Quilting update Tuesday

Hello again!
I am still working on my double wedding ring quilt - hand quilting away.  But one often needs a piecing project to take a break.  So I have been cutting and sewing a log cabin quilt.  Logs finish at 3/4 of an inch.
I have tried several different layouts of the blocks, but I think I like this zig zag;

Though one must be careful in laying this out!  Still a work in progress.

I am linking up with Connie at Freemotion by the River as I do most weeks I have projects to share. Follow the link to pictures of pretty quilt blocks and other projects.

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