Showing posts with label log cabin quilt pattern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label log cabin quilt pattern. Show all posts

7/05/2010

Log Cabin Quilts Unlimited: The Ultimate Creative Guide to the Most Popular and Versatile Pattern [Paperback] Review

Log Cabin Quilts Unlimited: The Ultimate Creative Guide to the Most Popular and Versatile Pattern [Paperback]More pictures than instructions.As a new quilter, I need more instruction than this book provides.

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Quilters can explore the creative possibilities of the most popular and adaptable patchwork pattern. Log Cabin is the quintessential quilt block, at its most basic strips sewn in order around a square center. Generations of quilters have been fascinated with the limitless variations possible by changing the central shape, the widths of the strips, the arrangement of blocks, and the interplay of lights and darks. Log Cabin Quilts Unlimited provides everything a quilter needs to design and create an original Log Cabin quilt: options for block construction, 18 block styles with many variations, setting options, photographs of outstanding quilts from primitive to contemporary looks, and a workbook with full-page diagrams. This is the ultimate guide to the ultimate quilt block.

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6/18/2010

Log Cabin Quilts With Attitude: A New Twist on an Old Favorite [Bargain Price] [Paperback] Review

Log Cabin Quilts With Attitude: A New Twist on an Old Favorite [Paperback]The projects lend themselves to lots of interpretations, from baby quilts to whatever. A great way to use up all those small pieces of fabric you just had to buy too much of!

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-Unique and hassle-free approach to creating log cabin quilts
-75 percent of quilts displayed at recent Quilt Market shows were traditional quilt patterns
-Log cabin quilts are among the top five most popular traditional quilt patterns
This quilting book is all about creating beautiful quilt blocks with more creativity. Author Sharon Rotz's clever "freedom block" approach is a skewed log cabin variation that gives quilters leeway to sew log cabin blocks however they choose to.
Freedom blocks are created from straight-grain strips that use various colors and widths, giving quilters license to showcase their individual character in quilts. More than 15 step-by-step projects prompt readers to be free:
-To construct various-size blocks
-To skip matching corner points or cutting blocks at specific angles
-To combine many colors and fabrics into one project
-To use countless fabric combinations

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6/15/2010

Make a Quilt in a Day : Log Cabin Pattern (Quilt in a Day) (Quilt in a Day Series) [Paperback] Review

Make a Quilt in a Day : Log Cabin Pattern [Paperback]Need a fast gift for the baby shower or just a fast introduction to patchwork?Eleanor Burns is there for you, with great illustrations, easy to understand instructions, and delicious photos of finished projects.Anadded bonus:detailed info on fabric quantities for various sizes offinished quilt (wall hanging, crib, twin, etc.)You don't have to strugglewith the math!In fact, your only real challenge will be picking colors.She classifies "Log Cabin" as an "easy" project.Don'tbe misled; the finished projects can dazzle, despite the relatively simpleconstruction methods.You can probably turn out that baby shower quilt inabout 2 evenings.A king-size quilt obviously takes longer, but that'sbecause of the time you'll spend wrestling with the greater amount offinished piecework in the machine quilting stage. Although you'll find thebasic instructions for log cabin blocks in any number of quilting books,"Log Cabin Patterns" rates a place on any quilter's bookshelf.

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The Log Cabin design dates back to the time of the pioneers and is one of the most popular quilting patterns today with its traditional red center representing the heart or the hearth of the home and the stripes around the center representing the logs of the cabin.

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