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    Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin: 40 Projects - New Quilts, Design-Your-Own Options & More
    Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin: 40 Projects - New Quilts, Design-Your-Own Options & More
    Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin: 40 Projects - New Quilts, Design-Your-Own Options & More
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    Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin: 40 Projects - New Quilts, Design-Your-Own Options & More

    By Sara Nephew and Marci Baker

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    Best-selling authors Marci Baker and Sara Nephew are back with a new slant on the classic Log Cabin. This updated second edition includes 6 amazing new patterns, for a total of 40 projects! Use the 10" Clearview Triangle ruler, also sold by C&T Publishing for fast and easy cutting. A robust "design your own" section with setting shapes, alternate blocks, and border options will help you uncover infinite possibilities. This fully illustrated guide includes easy-to-use troubleshooting tips and detailed material lists for all the quilts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateNov 1, 2015
    ISBN9781617452307
    Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin: 40 Projects - New Quilts, Design-Your-Own Options & More

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      I just love the effect of the 60 degree diamonds and 60 degree triangles and how simply things go together once the logs have been created.

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    Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin - Sara Nephew

    Preface

    For many years, when I have given my lecture Quilts from the Clearview Triangle, which shows the many designs from all my books based on the equilateral triangle, I generally repeat to my audience that whatever you can do with squares, you can do with triangles. My husband has been listening to my lectures and he said, Then you need to do 60° Log Cabin quilts.

    Actually, I had done Log Cabin quilts many years ago. It is how I got into these quilt designs in the first place. I was a beginning quilter, with a small stash of fabric, having fun trying designs and making quilts for my family and friends out of corduroy and clothing scraps. I was also taking classes and reading books.

    Two of our three children were approaching high school age, and looking ahead to college we could see that we would have two students in college at the same time. Where would the money come from? Well, what if I made quilts to sell? Making and selling is what I had done as a jeweler and cloisonné artist, so it seemed natural to me to consider it in my new interest—quilting.

    I was playing with miniature (4˝) Log Cabin blocks, having lots of fun, and many people were offering to buy the resulting wallhangings. So that’s what I started to make to sell. I cut 1˝ strips of cotton or wool, sewed them to a foundation of old sheeting to make the blocks, and arranged the blocks into the layout they looked best in. Eventually I made more than 60 of these wallhangings and sold most of them. By then I had baskets of 1˝ strips sitting around and was getting bored trying to think of what else I could do with those strips that would be fun. In my library was a book by Jeffrey Gutcheon called Diamond Patchwork, in which he showed how any quilt block could be drafted at a 60° angle, and the beautiful quilts his students made using this approach. So I decided to try a miniature Log Cabin 60° design, as shown here. I had some Plexiglas from a garage sale, and I used my husband’s band saw to make a template for the foundation pieces of old sheet. When I had to set the Log Cabin diamonds together, it was difficult to deal with the bulk of fabric, doing a set-in. I thought, This would be so much easier if this were a triangle! The proverbial lightbulb came on in my head and the excitement began. I bought two 60° triangles from an office supply store, taped them together with clear packaging tape, and drew lines 1˝ apart from the base to the tip. The first Clearview Triangle ruler was born. I sewed strips together and used my ruler to cut triangles out and arrange them to make designs. It was so much fun!

    I began learning how to work with fabric cut at a different angle and experimenting with all the designs flowing from this new approach. Stars, floral looks, even isometric 3-D designs took shape on my graph paper. Soon I began to write pattern books full of those designs. Moving on from the Log Cabin quilts was easy.

    Thanks to those first Log Cabin quilts I became an author and began to travel and teach. I even started a business manufacturing my own isometric rulers so everyone could easily try the techniques I was having fun with. Then Clearview Triangle became a publishing company too. Who could have imagined all this would happen?

    Nineteen books and 23 years later, I am back at the beginning, working with Log Cabin quilts again. After years of designing isometric quilts and teaching classes, my skills have grown. Now I can design 60° Log Cabin quilts without set-ins and without so much bulk. Here is a book filled with dozens of new quilts. I hope you like them as much as I do!

    One of Sara’s first quilting projects, a wallhanging with 60° Log Cabin blocks

    Photo by Sara Nephew

    Introduction

    Log Cabin is a traditional pattern that most quilters have tried at one time or another. The idea is simple. Start in the middle of the block with a square (usually red—this piece is the chimney in the center of the cabin and the red is the fire). Then add concentric strips to the square until you have the size you want your block to be. The design of the block changes depending on the order in which you sew the strips. Popular variations of the Log Cabin block are Courthouse Steps and Pineapple. The design of the quilt changes depending how you arrange the blocks. Many different arrangements are possible.

    If you change to a 60°-design Log Cabin, you can make both diamond and triangle blocks. And you can vary the strips within the blocks. And many beautiful quilts are the result. Page through the projects section or look at the visual index to find your favorites. This book is organized with general directions for making and assembling the blocks first. You will want to check out this section before you start your chosen quilt. Learn how to cut the shapes you need and pick up the tips that will make the process more enjoyable, such as how to use the charts and diagrams. You will find the designs arranged alphabetically. A few borders are at the back of the book. All these have been included to help you build your own Log Cabin easily.

    Enjoy!

    Throughout the book, Sara has written her favorite method for creating these quilts. Where Marci has a different favorite method, we have given this as an option. Try them to see which one fits you best. In our years of teaching, we have both found that some students are more successful with different techniques, so we hope you find one of these to be your very own frustration-free method. –Sara and Marci

    Basic Beginnings

    I made some decisions about how to put these blocks together. For the sake of simplicity, the book is limited to one size of triangle and one size of diamond. So all the blocks presented in this book are the same size and interchangeable. Rather than sewing each strip on and then trimming it to the correct size and angle (a technique often used to make Log Cabin blocks), it turns out to be quicker and more enjoyable to cut the strips to the correct size and shape and then sew them onto the block.

    Both Sara and I have found cutting shapes and then sewing to be easiest. However, if your seam allowance is not removing exactly ¼˝ of fabric, you may find the technique of trimming after sewing to work best. See the description of seams for more details. –Marci

    Fabric Selection

    Though most quilts are best made from blouse-weight 100% cotton, Log Cabin quilters have a tradition of using whatever fabric is available. During the 1930s, being hard up meant your quilt might include all kinds of stuff. Wool, silk, rayon, and thin and ravelly cotton were all used. But when they were sewn onto a foundation it made the whole range of fabrics possible. So a couple of the quilts in this

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