EQ8 tutorial Tuesday- log cabins

It’s time for another tutorial, and I couldn’t think of anything until I thought about the log cabin quilt I made with Island Batik recently for their monthly challenge!

Log cabins are SO much fun and it was super easy with the Accuquilt log cabin die too!

Here’s my initial sketch in EQ for this quilt

Of course this sketch is kind of “boring” but it gave me the general idea and I could count how many of each piece/log I needed and also for the border blocks!

In EQ7 and 8, the log cabin blocks are under foundation blocks, as they are often made with foundation papers- not that you HAVE to…. but pineapple blocks are under that category too and they are technically log cabin blocks too!

There’s lots of blocks, some start at the center and go out, some start in the corner, some are straight and some are un-even or crooked.

Here’s a simple log cabin layout

I made the blue parts white instead and changed the layout to a 4×4 layout and then turned the blocks around into a large star block layout

just by turning the blocks a differently, the layout can be totally different

or like this

Here’s a log cabin quilt I designed years ago and actually used FQs and turned into a quilt

Here’s a blog post about it and here’s the end result!

You can add more blocks and change the layout

A tip is to use the symmetry button and click away on the layout until you find something you like!

Now here’s another quilt I designed and it ended up in Annie’s Log Cabin book

I did design this for Accuquilt too

So as you can see, Log cabin blocks are SO much fun!

Have you done any log cabin quilts? designed them in EQ or followed a pattern or just went for it and did whatever?