flip and quilt “i love log cabin”

Use up your stash, just divide into light and dark! Log cabin is one of those designs that can be sew!!!! simple with largish strips like 2.5” or going the other way cutting 1” or even 3/4”, the good thing is that it is excellent for using up all sorts of scrap fabrics. You just need to divide the colours into a light and dark category or can go further and add a medium. If you choose a pictorial centre to the block you cant rotate so it needs planning but if you just have a multi fabric that you can rotate once you have made the blocks the design possibilities are endless. This class will have a twist to the log cabin you will learn different techniques which can be made into a throw or quilt. The great news is that you can sew directly onto cotton wadding so that you quilt as you go, you then join the blocks and add the backing and can add hand stitches, ties or buttons, but the quilt is already well attached
STUDENT REQUIREMENTS
Cotton Wadding approx !m 90” or you can use up small scarps they need to be at least 6” square or larger if wishing to make larger blocks like 12”.
Square ruler 6” – 12” or Card or template plastic to make 9” or 11” template for wadding.
Sewing Machine, in good working order with instruction manual. Walking foot if possible or ¼” foot
Rotary Cutting Equipment, and good permanent fine ish black felt pen.
Basic Sewing kit and sewing thread to blend with fabric.
Selection of pre-washed scrap fabrics to be sorted into:
1. Multi-coloured Light and Dark pile OR …
2. Two contrasting sets of colour (e.g. Light green and dark green, or red and blue)
Student can prepare strips prior to the class I would suggest that we work on 1” or ½”wide finished strips, so cut either 1” or 1.5”, by the full width of the fabric, what ever that might be. You will end up a selection of long and short, light and dark strips (if you store these in mushroom boxes or something like it helps to keep the cut edges in nice sharp order ). These need to be as accurate as possible A jelly roll also works very well and half the cutting is done for you the finished width of those strips is 2” but by quilting down the middle it looks like more work and is very quick and effective.