When you pull out a 100 or so scraps from the bins to make a quilt, and your cutting table looks like a cyclone hit it; it made sense to me to make a different design from those same fabrics. With a couple of leftover blocks from 'Triple Joy' and my mess of scraps, that is how this two-block quilt evolved.
It's an easy way to work when you randomly choose fabric pattern/colors by only sorting into lights and darks. With half-inch logs, it all seems to blend and/or accent when needed.
STATS: 2024, Log Jam, 31" x 31", Paper pieced, Machine pieced, Machine quilted.
Number nerd report: 457 pieces.
Years ago, these two quilts would have been called sister quilts because they either would have been made from the same design, but different fabrics; or had been made from a different design, but the same fabrics, as is the case with 'Triple Joy' and 'Log Jam'.
In 1993, the editor at Quiltmaker magazine asked me to make a couple of sister quilts for publication. They were to be made from the same design and color, but from different fabrics. They were published in their issue #32.
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| Nocturne #1 |
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| Nocturne #2 |
Now I can clean up my messy cutting table!!!
