Last year we swapped houses with my mother-in-law. We now live in the house where my husband grew up. Just across the road is a neighbour he and Linda have known forever. When we found out she was moving away, Linda wanted to make a quilt for her. She picked creams and reds from French General's Rouenneries Deux and Lumiere de Noel ranges. We picked up half a metre of each and wanted to make 18" blocks. Except it wasn't enough fabric. Whilst we had plenty enough for the small logs, we didn't have enough for the longer, outer logs. So we made an executive decisioin that we weren't driving back to the shop. With the reds, we swapped the colour order: the original plan was light logs in the centre, getting darker. Six of the blocks are like this. The other six... the first log is still the same, but the other logs are the opposite way. With the lighter logs, I cut width-of-fabric strips, pieced them together and then cut the logs I needed, so there are some ex...
Just let me sew!