Once the Christmas scraps were used up I moved on to the rest of the prints. I have a lot of those too! This one will be a community quilt, so it’s waiting to be machine quilted. Both my machines are having trouble with multiple layers (at least I can still piece), so that will have to wait a bit for the Bernina service center to be up and running again. This is the first time I did a light/dark pattern, but I also did various things in the center square. There are quite a few half square triangle centers. Also, the light/dark divide is a little mushy leading to somewhat indistinct stripes. The best part here is all the great prints in this quilt. This would be an amazing I spy quilt.
I’ve had many comments about how fast I’m creating these quilt tops. The truth is that I chose the log cabin block specifically because it’s quick. If you press all the logs outwards as you go along, pressing is super quick. I do blocks in batches, maybe 10 at a time, which allows for assembly line sewing. Also, using varied log widths allow you to have some with fewer logs than others which speeds up the sewing time. Log cabin blocks are wonderful for setting options too which makes them different every time.
And these are all fairly small quilts. It seems like most of the time 30 blocks is my attention span. These work as wall coverings as well as snuggle quilts for kids. If you have a bin of scraps to use up, I would definitely recommend doing log cabin blocks.
