My Log Cabin Quilt

Vogue Knitting ran an interesting article many years ago about being process-oriented vs. being goal-oriented. The process-oriented people are those of us who knit or sew for the sake of knitting or sewing. We love the process, even if we seldom get around to finishing what we start. Goal-oriented people knit or sew for the sake of having a finished item they can actually use. What a concept, hey?

At this stage of life, I consider myself a recovering process-oriented needlecrafter. I'm digging old projects out of storage to either finish or officially discard. One of these is a log cabin quilt that I started, oh, I don't know, about fifteen years ago. I really started it in my mind a lot longer ago than that. When I was in my late teens, we visited a craft fair in West Virginia where I saw my first log cabin quilt. I fell in love with the combination of folksy tradition and geometric sophistication. Ever since then, I've wanted one for my own bed. Finally, I'm close!


The quilt top is partially assembled; if you look closely, you can see that the two halves haven't been seamed down the center. I need to add a row at each end (that's twenty squares, of which half are done). The finished size will be 110" square. That's pretty large, but it will go on a California King bed. I'm making it square instead of rectangular so we can rotate it regularly so it will wear evenly.