I wanted to see how spring-like the quilt feels so far. I will try several different layouts though. That is the fun of log cabin.
I wanted you to see how the boxes stack, each sitting in its neighbor's lid, ready to pick pieces out of.
I cut each full width strip at the fold line and only cut half into pieces for the log cabin blocks. Here is the stack of "the other half strip".
There were a few comments about cutting the logs to lengths yesterday. Back in the 1980's when I made my log cabin quilts with the same 7 or 13 fabrics all through the quilt, I didn't cut lengths. I would just add the first strip to all of the center squares and then cut between them, press and add the next fabric to all of the squares with first strip added, etc. However when doing a scrap log cabin you can get the best variety in the blocks by having a pile of cut strips to choose from. They are in piles of darks and piles of lights in the boxes. The blocks will be more square and accurate if you precut lengths too as long as your seam allowance is accurate. Whatever seam allowance you added to the log lengths is the seam allowance you must sew.
I wanted you to see how the boxes stack, each sitting in its neighbor's lid, ready to pick pieces out of.I cut each full width strip at the fold line and only cut half into pieces for the log cabin blocks. Here is the stack of "the other half strip".There were a few comments about cutting the logs to lengths yesterday. Back in the 1980's when I made my log cabin quilts with the same 7 or 13 fabrics all through the quilt, I didn't cut lengths. I would just add the first strip to all of the center squares and then cut between them, press and add the next fabric to all of the squares with first strip added, etc. However when doing a scrap log cabin you can get the best variety in the blocks by having a pile of cut strips to choose from. They are in piles of darks and piles of lights in the boxes. The blocks will be more square and accurate if you precut lengths too as long as your seam allowance is accurate. Whatever seam allowance you added to the log lengths is the seam allowance you must sew.