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10-12-2010, 08:13 PM

#61

madamekelly

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Originally Posted by np3

I agree, I cut as I go.

Ah yes, but, do you remember to toss the scraps over your shoulder???? LOL! Eleanor Burns helped me make my first well made quilt.

10-12-2010, 08:29 PM

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Momsmurf

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Originally Posted by Nancy S.

Just so all you "cut as I go" people, the QUILT POLICE are at your door. ha ha. I think what ever works.

I hear 'em knockin, but they cant come in! LOL :-D

Same here...and if they did come in they couldn't get through the stash to find me.

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10-13-2010, 05:18 AM

#63

quilt queen

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Not to repeat everyone, but I don't precut my strips when I make a log cabin, I think that is the beauty of the pattern, you can use up alot of your scapes and make a beautiful thing...This is my favorite quilt to make because I can completly do it my way...

10-13-2010, 09:36 AM

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Olivia's Grammy

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Originally Posted by Mailmanldy

I have Marti Michelles Log Cabin ruler... haven't made one yet, but it gives you lines for how wide to cut the fabric and then the lengths to cut the strips so they all go together correctly... I'm going to have to dig that out and try one one of these days. I have her kaleidoscope rulers also, and need to use them as well... I love gadgets... just don't have the time to use them all.

Hi Mailmanldy, from another Colorado quilter...
They always say " The one that dies with the most wins". I can't tell you all the gadgets that I have purchased and never used.

What, we have to use all the gadgets we use. I am in serious trouble. :lol: :lol:

10-13-2010, 04:12 PM

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Helen20906

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I've paper-pieced mine. Precut the pieces and paper-pieced. They came out perfect.

10-13-2010, 08:27 PM

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JeanieG

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Originally Posted by Shorebird

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Originally Posted by cjr

I know many of you make log cabin quilts, as I've seen many posted here. How do you do your log cabin quilts? I am incooperating log cabins in a quilt I'm working on. I did a test block by cutting logs from a long strip after sewing. My instructor says all should be precut or will curl. My test did not curl. How do you do them and why?

I ese Eleanor Burns' method for piecing log cabin blocks....she does not precut, and neither do I. I have never had a block curl.........but I have, before I began using HER method, had logs precut and they were too short....ugh....her method is great, as you true up as you piece, so you wind up with perfect blocks........

I've made numerous log cabin quilts. I took a class using Eleanor Burn's book at a LQS many years ago. I use her method and my blocks always turn out great!

10-15-2010, 05:45 PM

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rainbowquilt

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Originally Posted by mygirl66

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Originally Posted by Nancy S.

Just so all you "cut as I go" people, the QUILT POLICE are at your door. ha ha. I think what ever works.

I hear 'em knockin, but they cant come in! LOL :-D

lmao

10-16-2010, 05:47 PM

#68

Ruby Y Campos

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I have done the logs both ways. I really did not think one way was better than the other. I do remember once when several of us were making a quilt together and one of them was left handed we realized that the logs were going around differently. It really does not matter which way they go, as long as for the same project they need to go the same way.