Well happy Tuesday Archives everyone!
Time to dig through your past posts and share any and all post that highlight a Log Cabin.
LOG CABIN QUILTS:
I'm currently reading the The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini (An Elm Creek Quilt Novel) and was doing a little research myself as they actually referenced to the center of the block being black and not red, as I thought was traditional for a Log Cabin Quilt.
I found this article on the American Quilter's Society website and here is a excerpt I found interesting:
Early Log Cabin blocks were hand-pieced using strips of fabrics around a central square. In traditional Log Cabin blocks, one half is made of dark fabrics and the other half light. A red center symbolized the hearth of home, and a yellow center represented a welcoming light in the window. Anecdotal evidence, based on oral folklore, suggests that during the Civil War, a Log Cabin quilt with a black center hanging on a clothesline was meant to signal a stop for the Underground Railroad.
I also found a free eBook from Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting which features three different types of log cabin quilting blocks. Just click the picture:
lol does a post from Monday counts as an Archive? I'm working on a log cabin now :)
ReplyDeleteYes it does!!
DeleteI don't have log cabin quilt yet, but am now a step closer, thanks to your tip about this excellent e-book. I particularly like the "Bear in the Cabin".
ReplyDeleteI do a lot of log cabin variations - know that I have looked thru my archives. Hey, can't go wrong with a classic.
ReplyDeleteThanks or this last party of the year Val!
ReplyDeleteThe Log Cabin block has such an interesting history. Thanks for sharing what you found.
ReplyDeleteThat is fascinating. I always thought the red center was traditional.
ReplyDeleteI have quilted in a log cabin but never made a log cabin quilt. Maybe I should make a log cabin quilt whilst spending a couple of months in our Yukon log cabin!
ReplyDeleteHi Val! Happy New Year! I had read that before about the black center in a log cabin. I think that is so cool that quilts were used as a signal for a stop on the Underground Railroad.
ReplyDeleteI have one log cabin variation that I haven't finished yet...if my laser for my longarm every gets here it can finally get done.
ReplyDeleteOh Oh….I LOVE log cabin quilts. I have one I have been sewing blocks on for s-e-v-e-r-a-l years now. Wouldn't take much to have enough blocks to finish it………sigh……maybe…….soon. LOL
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and yours!!