Grandmothers made quilts and a lot of them were log cabins.
A lot of options, a lot of used and scrap fabrics.
Place the blocks in different ways and you get different looking quilts.
We always have a log cabin quilt in the store, a small salute to the quilt that challenged me to conquer my inadequacies.
If fact, we have several versions of log cabins: * Basic Log Cabin construction (Grade 2) * Log Cabin Framed (our version with a small sashing) * Scrappy Mint Log Cabin (every fabric uses the same amount) * Our Okotoks Town Center Block-A-Month has twenty log cabin blocks
Further to that, Log Cabin blocks can all be identical, but when rotated result in a plethora of variations as shown above.
A New Era!
Now we have another Log Cabin quilt to add to our repertoire - My Upcycled Log Cabin, digitized with software, embroidered with decorative stitches on our top-of-the-line embroidery machine.
Whatever log cabin you prefer, we hope that you'll understand the influence this quilt has had on our quilting traditions. Historically sewn with a red centre depicting the fire place, and one half dark for the shadows of the log cabin, the other half light from the glow of the fireplace, this quilt block is one of the most basic with the biggest impact on our quilting education.
Look for our Grade 2 Quilting Class so you can benefit from the simplicity of this forgiving block.
