I had such fun making this quilt as a wedding gift for a very, very special couple. The bright colors of Tula Pink 's fabric lines seemed perfect for this bride and groom, so I had a chance to use up some of the Tula fabric I had been collecting. This L-O-V-E pattern is easy to put together. I saw a picture of this done in African print fabrics and fell in love with it. So I drew out a grid, sized it the way I wanted it, and started cutting out simple squares. With enough of a variety of fabrics, a quilt like this one doesn't require a lot of planning.  I love to see this quilt outdoors - the bright colors can really jazz up nature! One of my favorite Tula fabrics is Mineral and I used it in several colors in the quilt top and used the black and white version as backing. When folded up, this quilt looks like geometric designs, but you and I know there's a message hidden in there! I went with a scrappy binding, which has become my favorite way to bind a quilt. (Thanks to m...

  There's something about a log cabin quilt . . .  I subscribe to emails from Donna Jordan of Jordan Fabrics . Her free video tutorials, where she whips up (or "stitches up" as she says) a quilt so fast, are real confidence builders. More than once I have made a quilt without buying or using a pattern. I just follow along with Donna's video. When I saw her tutorial for this Curvy Jelly Roll Log Cabin quilt, I said, Aha! This was my chance to use a jelly roll I had bought a year earlier. Quotation , a line of modern fabrics by Brigitte Heitland , comes in these snappy, bright colors, and I'd been dying to use them for something worthy. According to the Textile Research Centre , a research foundation in The Netherlands, log cabin quilts were made in England and Ireland in the second half of the 19th century, but the pattern has been associated with North American quilts, especially during the American Civil War.  Quilters have been playing around with light and dark...