Just back from my walk with our dog/Maddie. It's a brisk one out there tonight. This evening was for running around getting things done. I finished the Christmas decorating and putting up the tree. We only have the decorating of the tree to do and for that I wanted to wait until my daughter got back, so some time this week we will tackle that.
Am I the only one that feels the need to do spring cleaning while I decorate? I washed windows, walls, floors, furniture and all. That is why I didn't get any quilty stuff done, aside from Sunday when I quilted a quilt for a customer. Tomorrow I have to see about trimming the quilt and maybe getting a picture or two.
In the meantime, let me take you back to Sept 12/2023: That was when I finished my mini log cabin quilt. I call it my mini log cabin quilt, not because it is small, but because the blocks are small. The blocks finish at 3 1/2" square. I set 4 blocks by 4 blocks to make a larger block of 14" square. Easier to manage and put the quilt together. This picture was taken in my back yard, a couple of days before I entered it into the Acton Fall Fair. I won first prize in it's category.
I started making this quilt, as I wanted to use up my smallest of small pieces. The smallest piece, is the red 1" square in the center. Sewn in a block it finishes at 1/2" and all the rest of the "logs" go up in increments of 1/2" with each log only 1/2" thick. You can use up a lot of scraps with pieces this small, but funny thing is, you can be sewing and sewing and never seem to be reducing your scraps.....lol.
Above is a picture of the bottom left hand corner to get a better view of the border. I did a traditional log cabin layout. Different than my usual layout of straight farrow, but just as pretty.
Below is a close up of the blocks prior to quilting. Can you see that I used any and every scrap colour I picked out of my scrap bin. Up close, you may thing, what a hodge podge of fabrics.....all together though and they make a gorgeous quilt. The more variety the better.
I have every colour in the rainbow and every style/genre of fabrics in here. You name it and it is likely represented in here. I love it that way. The trick to making a really scrappy quilt is not to look at the individual fabrics going together. So long as the same fabric is not up next to the same fabric all is good. I also made sure that within each block there are no repeat fabrics. Another trick to making a scrap quilt work is to add in different saturation of colours. I have some dark darks, medium darks and some light darks that sometime appear to be just a bit on the too light side. I did the same for the lights. So long as there is contrast between the lights and darks next to each other, it will all work out.
I hope you like this quilt. Just a word of warning. This is not for the faint at heart.......lol. It took me quite a long time to do this quilt (years). The reason being, is that each block has very small pieces and many of them. You can do a few in a sitting, until you have to put it aside. I started this as a block-a-day. But, as always happens, life in general gives you distractions.....lol. So long as you don't make a deadline, it will be ok.
I laughingly call this quilt my insanity quilt....lol. I am glad I persevered and made this. This is one that I am keeping for myself. Every time I look at it, I go down memory lane.
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