April 4, 2022

This was a Guild project from 2021. I’ve never made a log cabin before and I was glad to give it a try. Of the eight extra blocks surrounding the centre seven were patterns given to us and the eighth one we were to choose our own. I picked the card trick block; Stacia had made a quilt using the card trick block a long time ago at one of our first sewing sessions and I really liked it.

Quilting was a challenge because I was limited to something I could do with my walking foot. I used my go-to star pattern in the blocks.

I was a bit worried that for three of the blocks the star pattern might look odd because the block really didn’t suit the quilting pattern. A conference with Stacia and Deloise set me straight and when it was done I made the right decision; those three blocks don’t look at all strange.

For a lot of the quilting I used the mattress stitch that Deloise introduced me to and I’ve used often. I wanted something with curves for the wide outer border so I dug out one of my quilting rulers and marked the curves. I was pleased that by using my appliqué foot I was able to sew through the layers (and follow the curves) without much trouble.

This was a large quilt so it took some energy to move it around through all the quilting. I thought it was 30 blocks by 36 blocks but it turned out I had miscounted and was dealing with 36 blocks by 36 blocks so a lot of quilting.

It wasn’t until I had the last few stitches in the binding that I realized I hadn’t put a label on the quilt so I added one by hand.