Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Log Cabins
These are my first-ever log cabins and I love them! I can't believe I've never made this type of patchwork before. It is right up my alley - lots of strips of fabric and not much planning ahead. . I made these for what I thought would be a quick little birthday project for a friend, but my second attempt at following a real pattern turned out to be extremely frustrating. I didn't even take a picture of the end result because by the time it was finished I didn't want to see it EVER AGAIN. *sigh* (It's nothing personal, Rachel, honestly!) If I can offer a half-hearted explanation: I turned these log cabins into a quilted little change purse with one of those squeeze-on-the-ends-and-it-pops-open closures. I even bought these fancy closure things and waited for them to fly here all the way from China. And then, after bungling the purse part three separate times, I spent a HOUR AND A HALF "sliding" the clasp through the loops (the pattern should really say "man handle"). Ninety minutes. And I was not about to give up, either, folks. I had already made the dang purse three times and the light was at the end of the tunnel. So I sat there grumbling and almost crying with a pile of various sized butter knives, chopsticks, and tweezers in front of me until I got the dang thing finished. And the purse is actually super cute, I just couldn't bear to photograph it. BUT I loved the log cabin making part of the whole thing. And the giving-the-gift part, of course. I'm thinking a huge log cabin quilt might be in my future...
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All us gals were drooling over that purse yesterday, Heather. Does this mean we won't be seeing these type purses in your shop any time soon? Sad.
i love log cabin anythings! too bad about it being so hard...sort of takes the fun out of it all. but...you did complete, and now have a sense of accomplishment, and i want to see it!!! once i made an apron, and it was very difficult (can you imagine an apron hard?), and when it was done i was sure glad it was putting it in the Quilt guild fundraiser, cuz i never wanted to see it again! hugs; Liz
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