Build your best Log Cabin

Fons and Porter have published an e-book, “Build your Best Log Cabin”. The book focuses on three of the most popular Log Cabin Styles – Traditional, Courthouse Steps and Chevron.

The book boasts 24 pages of:

examples of antique log cabin quilts
comprehensive instructions and illustrations / photos
measurement charts showing the centre square, strip width and strip lengths for each size block
Handy tips and techniques for preparing, organising and sewing a log cabin block
Extra tutorials on making piped bindings and finishing off a binding the ‘Bumpless’ way
Suggested Quilting patterns
Alternate layouts for log cabin quilts.

In addition to the basics of making a log cabin block, four designers have created patterns to share using traditional blocks.

Bears in Bertie’s Log Cabin – Ricky Tims

The Dark Side – Lori Christianson

Linked Chevrons – Marti Michell

Woven Log Cabin – Shon McMain

I recommend this e-publication for any quilter that would like to explore the fun patterns and techniques of the traditional log cabin. Download your free copy of the e-book here.

Have you ever made a log cabin quilt? Here is one I made years ago for Grandfather’s 75th birthday.