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 ...

Some piecing but more applique … and space for quilting to feature. Everything I like in one quilt design.

A little bit of playtime, and I still like it, but prefer the first design.

Note that all the blocks are from the Electric Quilt Block Library.

I started this project file with the intention of using blocks from the Electric Quilt Library without making any modifications. Up until this design I stuck to my original intention, but now things have started to change.

In the second design I have blacked out 4 squares in four blocks, and from now on I will be making changes!

Yesterday the designs were red and white applique, today they are green pieced.

The design above is my favourite today.

Today there are areas that quilting could be added, yesterday the quilting designs I would use are there.

I like it! Apart from the star block. Cannot believe I didn’t notice that before I saved the design.

The other blocks and the quilting motifs are a collection of old style applique in old fashioned colours, but with a bit of a twist here and there.

The pieced blocks in the second design do not include the rogue star which appeared in the first.

Interesting centre, and a very unusual border!

Another interesting centre.

Looks like a road map for a city centre.

Slight change to get the designs above ….

… and another change.

That is all for this week’s quilter’s mid week break, and there will be another chance to stop briefly to look at more Log Cabin quilt designs next week.

The first design was designed on a standard grid with blocks and sashing, but the results looks like a central design with borders. I would make it as though there were borders, and would make the outer border narrower.

Second design is interesting, and the use of sashing is more obvious.

I like all of them, but especially the last one.

Make some star blocks with a dark background fabric, add some plain dark fabric blocks, then quilt with light thread, fill in the larger blank areas of quilting with stippling in a thread to match the background fabric.

I like both these designs.

Interesting version of Patchwork Jigsaws, formally known as Drunkard’s Path.

Flip every second block left to right, and the Drunkard’s Path link becomes much more obvious!

Untangle that if you can!

I like the second design with blocks set diagonally.

The mandarin tree has been stripped last week, the last of the oranges were falling off yesterday, so a couple of friends left with bags full to clear that, and there are lemons galore on the tree, and a large box full picked and waiting for some homes.

Luckily these designs will keep during the summer.

Love the design above!

I also love the next one!

The one above is interesting, but not on my list of favourite designs.

I think one job on my list for today is to wrap some of those lemons in the box with paper ...

Some times less is more.

Make that OFTEN less is more … especially when it comes to allowing space for quilting to shine.

Love the quilting space again, but also love the centre panel.

The last time I opened Cornerstones project file there were over 500 quilt designs, all in rather boring colours, so I set about dividing the file into some smaller files, deleted about 100 designs I thought were repeats, and I now have several files using different designs and different fabric choices in each one. I like both of the first two designs … no favourite there.

I would have liked a background fabrics with less black lines than the ones I have used, but got sick of looking through fabric collections, so these designs have got a darker background than I ...

Interesting. I have noticed that i am starting to use purple a lot. It was my Mum’s favourite colour, and I got to like it when I made my parents a quilt, and Mum got to choose the colours. I am going to have to add some different colours to some of the purple projects.

I love the second design!

Regular visitors may have noticed that there are a lot of new pattern projects making their debut over the last few months. I was getting a bit tired of some of the project files I had started much earlier ...

Interesting!

I like the second design!

In both designs the seam lines of the centre block are used as a quilting motif for every other block.

I didn’t use the most inspiring colours in this project file but it would take a long time to change them all as there are over 500 quilt designs. I wonder how many repeated designs are included!

I rather like the design above.

Not all the blocks have the half and half light and dark combination of fabrics, which opens up a lot of options when placing blocks in quilt designs.

I like the one above too.

Another one to add to my list of likes!

The last Log Cabin design for this week is almost boring compared to ...

Interesting.

I like this one, and wondering if it would look OK with a wider variety of colours.

Very basic nine patch blocks, but not the usual sort of use of colour placement.

Interesting!

Exciting. Certainly more exciting than the average Log Cabin quilts I have seen anywhere.

A bit more mundane.

Another exciting design.

Interesting design above.

Another very interesting design to complete this weeks collection of Log Cabin quilt designs.

More Log Cabin designs mid week, next week.

Now I have to make sure I get this posted in the middle of the week, and I have checked the day and date three times so far to make sure I get it right.

I still like the colours in these designs … they remind me of antique quilts.

Love the second design.