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A project file which has been in hiding with many others for quite a few years, with some simple but unusual designs using a lot of whole squares and some squares made with half square triangles.

Some of the squares can have a little bit of applique, or perhaps embroidery motifs on them.

The stars have been modified in the second design, and the applique is on a larger square.

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 ...

Very interesting start for a new project file, though i have to admit that the project file was started months ago, but got shoved into a corner until a few hours ago. I wonder how many more files are in hiding!

I always like mixing pieced blocks with applique designs … both in my virtual quilts and in real life.

I started this project file by selecting 11 blocks, along with some fabrics, and started playing. The fabric choices for these designs are a bit dull, but I like subdued colours in a bedroom rather than bright ones … I want my bedroom to be restful.

My favourite today is the second design.

Very interesting, and not my usual taste of colour combination for me to play with.

Second design is also interesting.

This project file started when I was teaching a small group some tricks to designing quilts in Electric Quilt quite a few years ago, using blocks from the EQ Library, but making changes to them to fit better into a design.

This colour collection sets a happy mood for me. Perhaps it is the combination of my Mums favourite colour, purple, Dad’s favourite colour green, and the gold of crops ready to reap so all the bills could be paid over the next year.

I love the first design!

The quilting as shown I would do in a contrast colour, but I would add some fillers in a colour to match the background.

The second design appeals to me too, but nowhere as much as the first.

Interesting design to start the day!

The send design is much more interesting, especially the centre bit.

I love the one above!

Neat and tidy and would look great on a bed in just about any colour combination. Remember that the trick with getting good results with any of the Log Cabin variations is to get the contrast right.

Interesting design to finish this weeks collection of Log Cabin designs.

That is all for this week’s Log Cabin retreat, but there will be more next week.

Very similar to yesterday’s designs in colour and style … but a different collection of designs. I have no idea why I have 2 project files so similar, but perhaps I missed my morning coffee one morning!

I am intrigued with the way the X shapes between the corner blocks become an extension of the blocks inserted amongst them.

Interesting!

This project file has been ignored for a couple of years, but I decided that today it could come out of it’s hiding place.

Love the second one.

Very interesting design!

I like the swirling stars! Or are they windmills?

Could have called this project file Field of Green, though considering that all the blocks are stars it should have been bright white and yellow in colour.

Lots of stars, and all on the same background star.

Love the first design for today!

If I was making though I would add a little insert inside the row of lattice blocks around the outside.

I like the second design, but nowhere near as much as the first one.

Filled a bin with green waste yesterday, but the back yard still looks lovely and green. Unfortunately most of the green is still weeds.

These blocks would be a bit more fiddly to make than the usual Log Cabin blocks, but the fabrics could be cut into strips and joined together and then cut into narrow strips to fir the blocks.

I think I should add more colours to the designs … one day when I have nothing to do and expect no interruptions! It probably wouldn’t work as when I don’t expect interruptions I get lots.

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Interesting design, pretty colours.

Are those crowns in the corners in the design above? Or birds without heads?

Another interesting one.

The one above is a slight alteration of the one above it! Less interesting, but I like it more.

The last design for this week’s mid week retreat (or coffee break) looks like an exploding star. It would be interesting to make with fading blocks around the centre star.

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

This could be the back of a pieced quilt … or the front of a whole cloth quilt.

The second design is the front of a quilt because the pieced blocks are visible … and I like it! I think I would quilt the block outlines in these designs, but in a thread to match the background fabric.

Baby Blocks become the stars in this project file!

The diamond shapes can be pieced separately in two pieces, which deleted some set in corners in some places in the design above, but not all of them.

There are so many ways to arrange the baby blocks … so little time to play with them to find more of the ways!

I like to see stars in a dark sky, which means I also like using dark backgrounds around stars in quilts.

Wow, a spinning star! Well, the centre bit is spinning.

More Log Cabin designs mid week next week.

Using less logs around the centre square saves a lot of time in making a block, and it makes a big difference to the design. I thought it might make the overall design less effective,, but now I think it looks more effective.

I love the design above … and the one below!

Not a big difference between the two, but effective.

The one above is very interesting

The last one is also very interesting, and below is the group photo of today’s designs.

There will be more Log Cabin designs mid week, next week.

I challenged myself to go through all my Electric Quilt project files and use the designs which have been waiting for years for their day in the limelight. Many of the files I am targeting have not been opened for two years … and often more! When I do open them I often add more quilt designs for future reference, or sometimes change the fabrics and save them in a new project file.

I like the second design, and suspect that there are many more in this project that I like as much, or more than this one.

I like the four subdued pieced blocks around the centre. I think they add a lot of interest to the design.

Love the second design … more of the subdued colour blocks!