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Ooops!

Went outside to water the garden and forgot about it being the middle of the week, and you might be waiting for your break away from the humdrum by looking at a small collection of Log Cabin designs.

I have chosen the right designs to share today, as it is the day I am trying to get everything loaded onto the new computer, and the colouring of these designs just may keep me cool and calm during that process.

The changes in the designs are about as subtle as the colours, so I had to spend time looking closely ...

I love it when quilters send me photos of quilts they have made from my patterns!  Joy F. sent me this photo of True North, a pattern I designed to use Northcott's Oh Canada fabric.

Joy told me that the quilt is 'proudly displayed in a log cabin that used to belong to my great great great grandfather....so Canadian!'

The only reason to make a Log Cabin quilt using all light coloured fabric would be to show off the quilting design.

Of course, you can also show off the quilting design if you just use creative quilting on the light parts of the design.

Choices … light …

… light …

… or a bit of dark.

I like the last one.

More next week … giving you a few minutes to virtually retreat in a Log Cabin.

It is mid week again, which means time for a very short retreat from the world at large to look at some Log Cabin designs.

I like the windmill in the centre of the one above.

All the blocks are basic Log Cabin blocks, with a few made with all light or all dark fabrics.

We are now living at the southern end of the Flinders Ranges, which is a very old range worn down by time, and one of the features of the flora of the area is the Flinders Range wattles, and this is the time of year ...

Carmen is searching for a log cabin quilt that she made for her son, Benjamin. It was last seen during 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan at her son’s apartment. It may have been taken by a roommate or roommate’s friend. They didn’t realize it was missing until recently.

This full-size quilt is mainly blue. It includes the different military branches put together in a log cabin style. One the back is a typed message for her son. It has a red border. It was made about 10 years ago. It has a label sewn to the back ...

Interesting!

Not a big change, and it is still interesting.

More change this time, but not sure that I like it as much as the first two.

Another interesting one, but I prefer the first two.

As always, more next week, mid week … which usually falls on Wednesday.

I am still managing to get some sewing in now that I have gone back to work and have to commute two hours a day it is just extremely slow compared to what I have been able to accomplish over the last few years. 

I've been on a tear in an attempt to use up some of the blue fabric in the stash. It's beginning to become a burden. Actually it's more like seasickness. But I'm determined. I have one more quilt top complete and ready to go on the long arm for quilting. This one, though, is complete and ready to go to a baby boy.  I'm calling it "Under the Haystack Fast Asleep."

Did you notice the green chair. It's part of the set with this orange chair. 

If you've read my post from Sunday or Monday, you know that I have been sick. I still don't know what that crud could have been, but thank goodness, it's gone. Just in time to help Rory and Meggan with the girls while she recovers from a procedure.

This crazy month of May is almost over - and it's still raining in Ottawa. Hopefully not enough to cause more flooding! Everything is very green when the sun does shine :-)
I haven't been quilting as much as I think I should. But I have been reading books (not audio or even digital). What a treat!

Classic side of the placemat

I went back to full time work this month so there is not much sewing but I am still plugging away at works in progress. My long arm is still in the shop waiting for a part to be organised to fix it so I have not been able to get any of my quilt tops finished. Just keep adding to the pile.

Since my sewing time is limited now I always seem to have improv scrappy projects on the go.  These projects are great when you don't have much time. I never know where these pieces are going ...

Jo Ann Smith found this quilt at a thrift store in New Jersey, and she hopes someone might recognize it and claim it as theirs.

This quilt was made in 2014. It has a label fused to the back, lower right corner. If this is your quilt, please contact Jo Ann at jxs@comcast.net to confirm what is on the label.