I laid all the finished cabins out yesterday, to see how many I had -
Turns out there were fifty-three.
Since then I've finished a few more, but didn't get another photo. I'd laid them out on my cutting table and I had to gather them back up in order to have room to cut some more logs.
Not that I'm obsessing over tiny log cabins or anything. But I am running low on a couple of log sizes...
My method thus far is to sew a 1" strip to a 1.5" strip of that red polka dot that I'm using for all the block centers, then subcut into 1.5" pieces. No way on earth am I going to cut 1x1.5" pieces and sew them to 1.5" squares. (The neighbors would complain about all the cussing coming from my sewing room, even with the windows closed...)
At first I was then sewing these pieces to a 1" strip and then subcutting (the mile-a-minute technique), but the blocks were coming out a bit too wonky. I think that blocks using wider logs work fine that way, but at this scale I'm better off cutting logs to size and sewing them on individually.
I've been cutting 1" slices off the ends of my pre-cut strips (2", 2.5", etc) but was grumbling to myself about the sizes that I don't normally have on hand - 4" strips, for example. Then I had one of those 'duh' moments when I realized that I could just cut any length off a 2" strip and slice it longways into two 1" strips. Two inch strips I've got aplenty - and cutting more all the time since I need them for my Demented quilt.
Logging on!
Linking with all the other Log Cabin Loonies at Julie's place. Come admire the logs!
10 comments:
Your log cabin blocks are deliciously colorful! I use the mile a minute method but I've never done any tiny logs like yours. The smallest that I've gone is 1½" strips. Yours look great!
No, no, you are definitively not addicted to the logs, not at all. You have nothing to worry about. X^D How big do the blocks finish at? They look great all together like that. Enjoy the insanity. ;^)
They are looking wonderful! I need to get back to mine soon!
I used the mile a minute method...but then I didn't make as many. I do forego the iron and just use finger pressing...because I do most of my distortion with hot metal.
I always love log cabins. That was my first quilt... but these are much cuter!
Ok. I thought you were going to make a small quilt. So...don't you have enough now? I guess small is relative.
I've been making mine like you - cutting one inch off the side of my various sized scrap pieces. Makes for scrappier blocks than mile a minute. Just as fast as mile a min. it seems to me. Cut before adding log or after? Anyway, I like looking at all the different fabrics as I sew and strange as it may seem I tell myself stories about fabrics that land next to each other. Today I saw crabs next to a cat, a gingerbread man next to a heart.
I am always intrigued by the ways different quilters store and sew their scraps. Your blocks are looking wonderful!
Your Loony Logs are looking amazing, so very bright, what will the finished size be?
I just love every one of those blocks! Bravo!!!!
Lots of color in those blocks. Lots of stitching too!
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