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Making a Log Cabin Quilt

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Here are some examples of one of the regular patchwork block patterns we love to use in Rejig sewing sessions – the Log Cabin Block. A couple of years ago we all worked together as a group over a couple of months to create a log cabin quilt to display at the Festival of Thrift, recreating the traditional quilting bee in lots of different places, which was a lot of fun, and something we planned to keep on doing in the future.

It’s an easy block to create and can look very striking with just 2 colours as in a black and bright pink design giving it a stark, graphic quality or very crisp in the more traditional red, white and blue colourway shown here. It is also a great block for making all kinds of secondary repeating patterns using the light and dark tones of the chosen colours in the individual blocks to create great contrast across a quilt.

Look out for our Log Cabin tutorial coming in November and why not make something lovely with it for a special winter present.


Rejig Sewing Sessions

Log Cabin blocks showing light & dark contrast


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About the Artist

Rosi Thornton is a visual artist based in Tyne and Wear. Her interests combine pattern, print, colour, and cloth, which she uses creatively in textiles, quilts, printmaking, and handmade books.

She believes passionately in recycling, skill-sharing, and art within communities, and started the REJIG project as a way of drawing these related interests together into a creative whole.

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