Curved log cabin quilt

At the beginning of the year I took a one day workshop with Jan Hassard to learn her technique for curved log cabin and below you can see (I hope) the quilt that I made.  It is nice if you like that sort of thing but I really know no that I don’t!  This was a last try to see if I could not just learn to love log cabin - but I can’t.  But the really important lesson with this was that I no longer have any desire to follow someone else’s pattern.  I finished this quite quickly because it was very easy to do - if tedious stitching all those blocks - but I didn’t have to think about it.  But lack of brain engagement resulted in a lack of much pride in the finished piece, other than the technical aspects ie accurate piecing and reasonably good quilting.  So now its definitely the design-from-scratch route for me, and workshops are strictly technique based rather than projects.

PS This quilt has been made some months and not stored properly before the photo was taken (see how much I love it?) but I have only just got to grips with publishing photos.

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