So now we need to add another layer of the light. Alright so now we’re going to trim this off just like that. And I always keep the piece I just finished at the top so that I know exactly where to lay my strip. So I’m just going to put my strip right along the side like that. So now I need to add this red to the other side and so, ok so now I’ve sewed my red piece on and I’m ready to add the side piece over here. Alright so now what I do is I would just trim this off just like this. And let me just sew that right along here and show you what that means. What I try to remember when I sew my squares on is that generally the piece I finished is the piece that I’m sewing to. Or you’re sewing all the 2 ½ inch squares together and you’ll get a bunch done at once. In this way, if you start a bunch of blocks, you can have a bunch going at one time where you’re sewing the sides of all of them. So now I haven’t cut my strips to size, again in the pattern it will tell you the size but what I’m going to do is I’m just going to lay this onto my strip and sew down. And I’m going to go with this, let’s go with this red right here. And then come over here and we’re going to add a dark side over here. Now you can see we have, here’s our center red block and we have our light side started. So here’s what we’ve got right here, press this back because I iron after every step on this. And this is one of those quilts also where you’ll want to make yourself a little ironing nest, you know, so you’re right there ironing. So this little rectangle I’m adding right here is a 4 ½ by 2 ½ and I’m just going to add to the side. And so I’m going to show you how to do that. But when I put a log cabin together I literally sew it on and trim it off. So in the pattern they tell you all the measurements for all the pieces and you will know that you need this many 4 ½ inch pieces and this many 6 ½ pieces. So now what you’re going to do is you’re going to add a light to the side of this. So we’re going to put these on here and just sew a quarter of an inch. And this is the beginning of our log cabin. And we’re going to sew it to the 2 ½ inch square of our red fabric, just like this. Now how we do that is we’re going to start with a 2 ½ inch square of our light fabric. So we’ve got the dark on this side and the light on this side. Here’s another one I can show you right here. And that’s generally how you layout a log cabin block. And they generally go, they graduate from light to dark, you know, and lightish to less lightish on this side. One side of it is light and one side of it is dark. We have our little red piece in the center. But most of them I kind of just pulled out a strip and did it.Īlright so for our first little round, on the block, let me show you the block right here. There’s a few that are different, thrown in here and there. So you’ll need two strips for your middle. And out of one strip you’re going to get 16 blocks. So you are going to need 25 of these 2 ½ squares. And I am going to just take this and trim both sides because I think. So the first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to cut, take out some of our red strips and we’re going to cut some 2 ½ inch squares for our very center of our log cabin. When I saw this line of fabric literally I, into my mind came, I need to make one of those old fashioned blocks out of this and the log cabin came to mind. And so they’re traditionally red or yellow. Now traditionally with a log cabin block the center square right here refers to the heart of the home or the light of the home. But for now we’re going to get to making the quilt. We’re going to talk about this border a little bit later. And so you’re going to need a yard and a half of that. Now our border out here is an eight inch border, at the peak, it’s an eight inch border. And then we’re going to use some border fabric. So to make this quilt you’re going to need one roll of 2 ½ inch strips and we have used Walnut Creek by Julie Hendrickson for Windham Fabrics. So let me tell you what I used to make this. Because we just want to talk today about the simple Log Cabin. There’s literally tons of ways to set a log cabin. But I set it in a fields and furrows way so that you can see how the darks are together, the lights are together. Isn’t this fun? Now some of these blocks are scrappy, some are not which I’ll talk about in a minute. So today we’re going to work through that. And I discovered on our site I’ve done lots of different log cabins but not just the standard simple log cabin. The log cabin is a really old block it’s super easy to do. And today I’ve got a fun project for you and it is a simple log cabin quilt.
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