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These designs look more like the back of a pieced Log Cabin quilt.

Almost the same, but this time the Log Cabin block is facing the opposite direction

Curved logs on teh other side of the design above.

Once again the pieced blocks would be turned inside out.

My favourite is the last design, which shows the blocks in the previous design turned inside out.

More Log Cabin designs mid week, next week.

I see this series as the back view of Log Cabin quilt … but I wonder what colours would be on the front.

If you look closely the blocks are not the regular Log Cabin blocks, but Curved Log Cabin, and if you look even closer, some of the blocks have the curves on the opposite side of the blocks.

Now I am wondering what these designs would look like with colour added … I guess my personal challenge will be to add some contrast to these designs in between bouts of gardening during the next week.

I think I will try ...

These designs don’t really include the pieced blocks … just the quilting.

So, are they wholecloth designs, or the back of a Log Cabin quilt.

I think they would work as either, though some would work better as one or the other.

I have spent quite a lot of time trying to work out the stitchin sequence for the Log Cabin part of these designs, and have reached the conclusion that I would do them by hand unless there was a machine which could start and stop without the need to tie off or hiding all those loose ends. It ...

Today’s designs are either wholecloth Log Cabin or the back of pieced Log Cabin quilts.

More accurately the second and third are Log Cabin designs, the first and the last two are Courthouse Steps.

I have been sitting at a computer and playing with quilt designs for anything from a few minutes to a couple of hours most days over the last 10 years, and I am still amazed at the difference a few twists and turns of blocks make to a favourite traditional quilt.

So far in this project file all I have done is use the Symmetry ...