![]() ![]() Instead of doing even spaced ones, I mixed it up and did a few lines together, then left a wider space before the next set.įor the final design, I wanted to break the block up in a completely new way. In the background, I chose to use diagonal lines to add a nice frame to the block. I chose a feather to fill in all the different spaces. With this approach, I’m going to ignore all the seams between the sections. With this design, I opted to treat the entire log cabin section as one piece and quilt it all together. ![]() This design can make things busier in the log cabin block, so I kept things simple and just used straight lines in the background This is a great technique to use and can keep your eye focused on the log cabins and not competing with the background. I like to pick a few designs and repeat, simply so I don’t have to come up with as many different options. You can pick a different design for each section, or keep things more simple and repeat or alternate the designs. When doing this, you can mix and match any of your favorite border designs. This is probably the most obvious way to approach the block. The first design quilts each of the different sections of the log cabin block individually. I prefer to show the designs without the patches and pieces being outlined on the screen and it has made me focus much more on the fabric choice than I do making a real quilt.As I post these videos, my goal is to help you see different ways you can approach blocks, there is no right or wrong way to quilt a quilt! Take what I show and adapt it to fit your favorite designs or ones you are comfortable with, or just use them as inspiration and a starting point to create your own unique plan. Most of this lecture is based on twenty five years of using a mixture of fabrics in quilts, but I have gained a lot of extra experience playing with the fabric choices on the computer, and trying to make sure my fabric choices still work in a quilt design out there on the web. That multi colour fabric makes the whole corner sparkle. My choice would be bottom left, but with lighter lights!īest one as shown in my opinion is the bottom right. This is not a written test, but you can add your answer as a comment if you wish, and what ever your answer is, it is your choice anyway! Look at the four quarters of the quilt below …… which one do you think shows the design most clearly, which one would you choose, and would you change anything. The centre squares I have varied a little bit, sometimes using light, sometimes dark, sometimes when I want to add a bright spark to the quilt I look for something to sparkle …… often a light bright fabric, though if it is surrounded by light fabrics a deep dark fabric might be needed. Now arrange the remaining light and dark in order, light to dark, in both the light and dark piles. Put the mediums back into storage, or use them with one very light or one very dark fabric as the contrast fabric Sort at least a dozen fabrics into light, medium and dark piles. Too many and the design will be totally blurred. Busy prints will attract attention and the design immediately loses focus. I would allow no more than one busy fabric in each block, and I would try to restrict them to either the light or the dark side, not both. However, used sparingly they will make the quilt come alive. At the end of the playtime you will have sorted scraps from your stash ready for use in a scrap quilt and may not have to buy the new fabric anyway.ĭiscard most of the really busy prints, the ones with multi colours, the conversation prints, half light/half dark fabrics, and any fabric with strong contrast between elements of the design. Any colour combination will work, and as many, or few, fabrics as you want will work, providing the contrast is there.Įven if you intend buying fabric for a quilt, allow some time to play with your stash so you understand contrast. The basic Log Cabin block, and all the variations I have used in thousands of virtual designs, all need strong, clear contrast between light and dark. I have never bought a kit, and if I did I bet I would have to change at least one fabric, probably at least half, not because I think I would make it better, but I don’t ever want to make a quilt just like someone else.Īs children we learn most of our life skills through play, so why should we stop playing, and therefore learning, when we grow up? Most quilters become quilters because they love touching fabric as well as the colour and prints, and so we should indulge that love of feeling the texture of fabric and re arrange them on the shelf or in the drawer as often as we can in the name of self education. One of my favourite steps in making a quilt (amongst others) is choosing the fabric. ![]()
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