Log Cabin Arrow Design

My brother Paul likes to believe that he is part Indian, though in truth we have no Indian blood. So, I chose to use an arrow lay-out for his quilt.

This is another example of a log cabin quilt. It is a king size bedspread.

In the beginning all of the quilts I made were log cabins. I had not yet developed the confidence to branch out.

Log Cabin Painting of a Sunset

Another layout of log cabin squares! I call this the rainbow quilt. It was also made for my sister Nicki. She handed me a picture of a sunset and said, "Here, use these colors."

It was quite a challenge! Because all the colors of the rainbow were in the picture. When I started putting the squares together, I really didn't know if the fabric combination I had chosen was going to work!

But... as you can see... it worked very well. The very fact that there was a strong contrast really makes the design stand out when the squares were put together.

This quilt was made for a long queen size bed.

More Log Cabin Designs

This is another log cabin quilt, pieced for my youngest sister Nicki. Are you beginning to see how versatile this pattern is?

Log cabin squares are very easy to construct, but there are an endless number of ways in which you can put the squares together to form interesting patterns.

In this zigzag quilt, the log cabin square has been created in the traditional fashion. The little red squares at the center of each block symbolize the hearth of the home, and the fabric "logs" the way in which the homes on the frontier were constructed.

Here is another quilt made with the same set of fabrics, and which is also a log cabin.

One of the fascinating aspects of log cabin quilts is the number of ways in which the squares can be arranged. Unfortunately, I am sitting on the only picture I have of this quilt. I am in the process of pin basting the completed top, a process which I no longer struggle with.

At this point in my quilting, I always quilt small sections of a quilt and then use binding strips to put them together, as opposed to giving myself a major backache by machine quilting the whole quilt at once. This quilt is currently in the home of my youngest brother, Bob Beglau.

Warms a Mother's Heart

Now here is a picture to warm a mother's heart - my daughter, wrapped in a quilt we had just finished making together.


In the beginning, most of the quilts I made were log cabin designs. After completing the log cabin section of this one, I made a strip-pieced border from scraps. Jennifer then appliqued flowers around the edges.

Here my eldest son is wrapped in the first quilt I ever completed, though it was the second top I pieced. Walt picked the color scheme. The picture was taken the night I gave him the quilt.


Again, this is a log cabin design. All squares have the same light fabrics; however, there are two color schemes used for the dark portion of the squares. I love the way the placement of the squares in this quilt created a cross within a cross. The colors are truer in this picture of the full quilt.