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Fairly old project, but with lots of designs in reserve. 

I like the second one … best for to                day!

The third is interesting. 

          So is the next one!

The last one needs some colour in those circles … perhaps some applique. 

All light, all dark, and some half dark/half light.

Mix them up and see what happens.

I like the middle one!

The next one is interesting ….

… as they all are.

More Log Cabin designs next week, mid week.

This project file hasn’t been opened since the middle of 2018!

Made up from mostly traditional half light, half dark Log Cabin blocks, With a few all dark and/or all light added .

I see four log cabins at a cross road!

The colours are rather pretty, as I usually prefer more masculine colours for Log Cabin

There are a lot of designs in this file waiting for their turn to be added to the blog, so I will try to open it up a little more regularly in the future.

Another week has flown by, so time to take a break and study some Log Cabin Quilt designs.

The first is OK, the second one is better.

Sixty half light, half dark Log Cabin blocks, four all ark logs in all but one of these designs.

My favourite for the day is the one with all traditional  light and dark blocks.

I wonder  how these would look in a mixed colour scheme … something to fill in time one day.

More Log Cabin Quilt designs mid week, next week.
 

Time to retreat from the mad world for a few minutes to inspect  some Log Cabin quilt designs.

I love the first two designs, but  my favourite for today is not included in those two.

Not too sure what to think of the diagonal design of the third. one.

Number four is my favourite … a combination of rings and diamonds!

I also like the last one for this week’s retreat, but there will be more mid week, next week.

All designs use  36 identical blocks, and there are still heaps in the project file for later on.
 

This is the last of this project file.                   

There are aa lot of designs I have saved into a new project, and will share them later.

Before then I am making some minor changes, not including fabric changes.

The main change is to replace the half blocks with solid fabric around the edge with a half square of fabric instead of pieced logs.

There are a lot of designs ready and waiting for the minor change … half of them were waiting to appear in the current file.

Very deep purple , very bright green. Not a combination I had ever thought of. Had thought of similar, but usually a  bit lighter.

I didn’t intend dog faces to appear in the two designs, but they did!

At least they don’t bark all day and all night.

Enough with the dogs, how about some pointy bits.

Not too sure that I like the last one … looks a bit weird!

Many Australian native plants can survive drought conditions, but they look forward to the break of droughts just like Aussie people, especially those who live in the country areas and provide food for those who live in the more built up areas.

The best flowers visible from my garden this year  were a couple of gum trees over our back fence, one with red flowers, one yellow..

In the second design the corners are different … I couldn’t decide which one I liked best, so left  them as they were. A real quilt made like this could be used with ...

The first two designs in this week’s Log Cabin Retreat  has only Log Cabin blocks featuring light fabrics on one side, dark fabrics on the other .

There are similarities, but they are laid out differently.  If you make  64 similar blocks, play with the  layout before you piece them together … there are many, many designs waiting to be discovered for those blocks.

But, what if you make four all dark fabric Log Cabin blocks? The third design has four  dark blocks to replace four of the half and half blocks.

Then back to all identical Log Cabin blocks but ...

Middle of the week again … feels like it was the middle of last week yesterday!

The second design is very interesting!

WOW!!!

My favourite for today!

I like the one above too!

I love the last one too!

I hope your preparations for Christmas are going well … just two weeks to go!

More Log Cabin designs mid week, next week, and the week after too!

Very interesting design … would work in many different combinations.

The second one would also work in many colour combinations.

I like the one above!

Very interesting.

Love the last!

One day I should print off three inch square red white and green quilt designs and hang them on a tree … which means I need another tree … and space to put it!

That is all for this week, but there will be more Log Cabin designs mid week, next week.

It’s the middle of another week already, and I like the first Log Cabin design but worry that the weeks are getting shorter. Not too mention the years.

The second design is very interesting!

Another very interesting design.

The project file these come from has no new designs at the moment, but I might just find some time to play with some of the designs with the cross in the centre … I like all of these, but can see changes which just might make them better.

I think the second design is my favourite, but it will be interesting ...

I like the first design of this week’s Log Cabin design variations.

The second design is very interesting!

Another interesting design.

Just a thought … Log Cabin blocks would be a good substitute for an autograph book, with the signatures added to the light strips, with the option of adding embroidery.

On second thought, I would add signatures to quilts with less blocks than those in the collection, but the general idea would make a great family heirloom in any size.

My favourite today is the second design.

That is all for this week … more Log Cabin design’s mid ...

The colours in this lot would be lovely for a romantic break in a Log Cabin near a river or lake … especially a pink lake. (There is a pink lake down the highway from where I live, though it often looks brown rather then pink.)

First design is interesting, and so is the second one above.

I like the one above …

… and I like the one above too!

I have been trying to work out which one I like most, but have given up … I like them all! It is always interesting to mix up the different variations of Log ...

First design is very interesting!

The next three designs could all use more dark pieces, but I like them without the extra colour as the quilting can be seen all over the top.

In the design above there are eight more blocks with dark added.

More dark areas added, and I like it like that.

Saved my favourite to last in this week’s Log cabin retreat.

More Log Cabin quilt designs mid week, next week.

This project file uses just one block … the basic Log Cabin block, using a centre plus four rounds of strips.

The size of the centre square and width of the strips determines the size of the quilt. The designs in this collection would be a queen size quilt if the blocks start with cutting a 1.5 inch square and strips 1.5 inches wide, with the finished block size 9 inches.

I wonder how many different designs could be created by turning the blocks every which way?

Adding multiple colours to the mix would introduce many more variations!

With ...

The first design is neat and tidy, but it might work on a tiled floor but not quite right for a bed.

Turn eight blocks around and it becomes a big star.

Back to the first design, but with four blocks moved out towards the corners.

Now they are all the way to the corners.

The final design for today has the four dark blocks from the centre moved towards the corners, and it is my favourite for the day.

That is all for this week’s mid week collection of Log Cabin designs, but there will be more next ...

Very interesting collection of block designs … especially the pyramids with floral clouds!

Lovely!

Another lovely one.

I think the applique is a bit too much in the design above.

I like the last one … just enough applique, so the logs are an important part of the design, and there is room to show off some quilting.

There are some very interesting designs in this project file!

I have included most of the Log Cabin blocks I have in my collection, and added an interesting colour combination.

I like the one above! But wait … there are a couple more to go for this weeks mid week just for quilters.

WOW!

There are a lot of possibilities when you start playing with even pretty basic Log Cabin variations!

That is all for this week’s mid week quilters short break from the mad world around us … more mid week, next week.

Interesting design to start today’s Log Cabin retreat … first of five Log Cabin quilt variations to look at.

An interesting variation of the first design, almost the same and with the colours swapped. I like the colour change.

In the design above the two rows of blocks in the centre, both vertically and horizontal, are the same but the corners have been changes.

I like the change, but what does it look like with the colours reversed?

I should have left them as they were!

My favourite of this mid week’s collection of Log Cabin designs is the ...