{"id":1907,"date":"2013-12-22T21:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T03:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1907"},"modified":"2014-05-16T01:30:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:30:18","slug":"2013-log-cabin-sofa-quilt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1907","title":{"rendered":"2013 – Log Cabin Sofa Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

11\/12\/13:<\/strong>\u00a0 After finishing the piecing on Tumbling Stars and dreading appliqueing the borders onto it (I truly don’t like appliqueing!), I began thinking about making a quickie quilt for snuggling on a sofa.\u00a0 We don’t have a sofa so I only guessed on a size.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was stitched on my vintage Singer 301a machine.\u00a0 The fabric strips measure \u00be” after sewing, allowing use of lots of colorful strips in a smallish quilt.<\/span><\/p>\n

12\/2\/13:<\/strong> \u00a0 I’m very nearly finished with the main part of the top.\u00a0 Lots of fabric cutting was involved because I don’t keep this size strips on hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll add a solid thin frame (maybe black) and a pieced border.\u00a0 I have gazillions of half square triangles left from other projects so I’ll hopefully make the border from them.\u00a0 I’m seriously considering machine quilting as quilting by hand takes much more time than I want to invest in this simple quilt.\u00a0 I also want it to be very durable.<\/span><\/p>\n

12\/9\/13<\/strong>:\u00a0 <\/strong>After giving much thought to machine quilting, I decided to hand quilt this top in a hoop (since the frame is otherwise engaged).\u00a0 I have little experience machine quilting and didn’t want to take a chance of ruining it.\u00a0 I’ve decided to give the finished quilt as a Christmas gift.\u00a0 We’ll see if I can possibly finish it by then….. FAT CHANCE!!<\/span><\/p>\n

12\/20\/13:\u00a0 <\/strong>Finished this baby on 12\/20\/13.\u00a0 The handquilting, binding and label are complete.\u00a0 It’s even hand washed and ready to gift.\u00a0 Start to finish – 39 days!!!\u00a0 (My fingers hurt!)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Log Cabin Sofa Quilt 64″ x 48″<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Quilting, backing and label<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

I think this quilt turned out grand, especially considering it took less than 6 weeks from first fabric cut to last stitch.\u00a0 The quilt features bright orange ‘hearth fires’ on each block, 3\/4″ logs, and 1 1\/2″ sawtooth border.\u00a0 It has a small black frame and black binding with rounded corners.\u00a0 The finished size is 64″ by 48″.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11\/12\/13:\u00a0 After finishing the piecing on Tumbling Stars and dreading appliqueing the borders onto it (I truly don’t like appliqueing!), I began thinking about making a quickie quilt for snuggling on a sofa.\u00a0 We don’t have a sofa so I only guessed on a size. It was stitched on my vintage Singer 301a machine.\u00a0 The (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907\/revisions\/2064"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}