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| This isn't a true log cabin quilt but it looks like it! |
This was my first log cabin 'look-a-like' quilt.
The true log cabin block has a center square, usually red, and an imaginary diagonal line separating a dark and light side.
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| A "wonky" log cabin quilt, made crooked on purpose. A community quilt made by the Spadina library quilt group. |
The block I used for my quilt has a square in the bottom corner of the block instead of in the center. It can be substituted for the log cabin block and subsequently all of its pattern combinations because it still has the light and dark aspect.
This pattern has become one of my favorite ways to use up scraps. I later tweaked and perfected this technique and teach it in Italy and in Toronto.
I put in many surprises in my quilt. If you look very carefully you see butterflies, animal eyes, a light house, a hand, a duck and many more curiosities. There are even a few pieces of a cotton dress I had made while living in Kuching, East Malaysia (Borneo).
The quilt lives in France.
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