![]() The star stitches work in nicely with the starburst pattern and the quilt is very soft and cuddly given the low density quilting. Then I decided to tie the quilt within these lines, using a decorative star pattern dotted around various spots within. I used a decorative straight stitch to sew anchoring lines between all the ‘stars’ (along the light grey grid) and around the edges. Once the top was finished I basted and did some fairly quick quilting. I don’t mind and I know my daughter doesn’t care, so I was happy with the trade off. It would be remiss of me not to point out that this method will lead to some inconsistencies in your blocks – you can see below that my greys aren’t lining up from block to block. These blocks came together so quickly using this method – it was so gratifying. It was super quick to iron them like that. When I did iron, I pressed all my seams to the side. Finger pressing the seams within each round worked fine for me. I only ironed after each round, not after each individual log. I did NOT trim the blocks back with each round, I just trimmed the final blocks to 10.5″ x 11.5″ Then when I cut them apart it only took one cut instead of two, and many times I just used scissors and eyeballed it. ![]() With this quilt, when I chain pieced I butted my blocks up right next to each other, like this: Normally when chain piecing I like to leave about a half inch between blocks in the ‘chain’ and then cut them apart with my ruler as a guide, lined up along the length of my block. But before I get to that, here’s an outline of a few things that made it really quick to put this quilt together. I’ve put together a tutorial should you wish to make this 60″ x 88″ twin rectangle log cabin quilt pattern. I was also contemplating using a HRT instead of a plain centre rectangle in these mock ups: Light to dark vs dark to light in the grey fabrics. I finally settled on my version as I felt it made the ‘stars’ pop the most. Dark against light, light against light, phew. And then deciding which way to gradate the colours. Boy, there are some configurations out there – this was the hardest part of this quilt, deciding which to go with. My final layout was 6 blocks by 8 blocks, and they are arranged in the configuration commonly known as Sunshine and Shadows. My blocks are 10″ x 11″ finished (sewn together). ![]() I realised that a rectangular block would work much better, so that’s what I went with. I was contemplating using square log cabin blocks, but found that they didn’t give me the twin sized quilt I wanted or they ended up with an odd number of blocks along the side, which didn’t suit the layout I wanted to use. Why not combine the two hashtags and sew my daughter a log cabin quilt from stash? Yes! I had been stashing sunny yellow fabrics for almost a year to make my daughter some sort of quilt. A rectangle log cabin quilt pattern tutorial.Įarlier this year, on instagram, I noticed there was a #scrappylogcabinQAL and a movement to #sewmystash2015.
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