A Curvy Log Cabin Quilt

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 fabrics to make log cabin blocks and then arranging the blocks in various ways to make a wide variety of shapes and patterns.

I arranged my log cabin blocks into a couple of different designs, sent photos to my sisters and the consensus was this giant flower design.

I love the contrast of the white, black, bright orange, spring green and sunny yellow.

This quilt has an outdoorsy look to me. I hope it's used for picnics in the park.

The fabric that looks like jacks is one of my favorites.

I love the mash-up of a traditional quilt design with ultra-modern fabrics.

Backing is in Ellipses, one of the Quotation fabrics.

Curvy Log Cabin lives at our lake house until it can find its forever home.

I added a scrappy border from my scraps from the quilt top.

The flowery quilting really shows up on the black.

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To learn more about these quilts and Diane's other quilting projects, contact her at diane.fitzpatrick@mac.com. And check out her Instagram page.

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