![]() ![]() Quilting is my passion, my labour of love. My creativity is poured into quilting and it is a skill that I constantly work on and will forever improve on. I can share my quilting with my children as my mother did for me. We solve problems, learn, laugh and cry together. My quilty friends are generous, warm and supportive. I am blessed with friends through my local Modern Quilt Guild and online (some of which have turned into real life friends too!). Friendship, legacy, creativity and most importantly, love. Every day I take another step towards making this dream a reality.ĭo you teach/publish your skills and projects?I teach around Australia and you can find all of my patterns, projects and workshop schedule at What do you love most about crafting?Quilting is much more than just a craft to me. I am lucky to have the support from my family to be able to quilt and blog, which I almost always do at night! I am looking forward to this becoming my full time profession though. I have two young children and a day job working for the man. ![]() Is crafting your hobby or your profession?Both. From going to classes at the local quilt store, quilting retreats, my local guild and online classes. When I left school I went to TAFE to study fashion design and I always make time to learn new skills however I can. Who taught you your skills?My mother and grandmother have always been a crafty lot, however I have had plenty of training as well. So here I am, passionate about, and totally addicted to quilting. It really didn’t take long to get hooked. ![]() I reached out to my mum who provided me with a glorious selection of scraps and started quilting. It took me a while to get to quilting from dressmaking but, when I had my daughter, I needed something to keep me busy and out of trouble. How long have you been crafting?I have been crafting and making since forever. There aren’t a lot of crafts I haven’t tried - flower arranging, folk art, decoupage (does anyone else remember gluing bits of tissue paper onto plaster of Paris cats?) and so on. We can cut them straight as we go.What crafts do you do?What crafts don’t I do? Mostly I do quilting and sewing, and I also enjoy embroidery and cross stitch occasionally. Just be sure that the scrap is long enough to cover the section of the block that you're working on.įor the center 'square', cut a piece of fabric that has four sides and is about 4 Step 1 Choose scraps or cut strips of fabric in varying widths from about 2 inches to 3 or 4 inches by at least 6 to 12 inches long. Then, trim the block using a squaring up rotary cutter ruler (you'll see this being used when we get to this step). After adding each round, use a squaring up ruler to check the size of the block.Īdd rounds until the block is 1 or 2 inches greater than the size that you want. To get the block the size you want, you continue to add logs around the center in what's called rounds. I'm aiming for a 12 inch wonky log cabin in this tutorial. Refer to this diagram as needed while you assemble your block. Then proceed counterclockwise around the center. Think of the sides of the center square as the 3 o'clock (right side), 6 o'clock (bottom), 9 o'clock (left side) and 12 o'clock (top) positions on a clock.įor this log cabin block, stitch the first log (1) to the center at the 3 o'clock position. (In the diagram below, the center may not look like a square, but it did start out as a square.) It shows you the order in which to stitch the logs to and around the center square. Look at this quilt block assembly diagram.
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