Saturday, June 22, 2024

LOG JAM


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.

Nocturne #1


Nocturne #2


Now I can clean up my messy cutting table!!!

1 comment:

Alycia~Quiltygirl said...

Those are Beautiful!! and what small pieces!!
I like seeing the sister quilts - its interesting how color changes the whole designs