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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface
- Glossary
- I. Color
- II. Preparing to Make a Quilt
- III. Making a Log Cabin:
- Planning and Cutting the Blocks
- Piecing the Basic Log Cabin Block
- Using Two or More Block Arrangements
- Light and Dark Arrangment
- How to Figure the Measurements
- Yardage Chart and How to Use It
- IV. Putting It All Together:
- Making Up the Quilt Top
- Borders
- Curring and Piecing Borders
- Backing and Quilting the Log Cabin
- Finishing the Quilt
- V. Other Wonders from the Basic Pattern:
- Other Arrangements and Patterns for Dark and Light Blocks
- Birds In Flight
- Pinwheel #3
- Straight Furrows
- Streak o' Lightning
- Wild Goose Chase
- Wild Geese Flying
- Barn Raising
- W's
- X's
- Pinwheel #1
- Pinwheel #2
- Starburst
- Sparkling Diamond
- Sea Storm
- Sea Horse
- Open Windows
- Joshua's Star
- Thistle
- Square Barn Raising
- Chevron
- VI. Some More Traditional Patterns
- Touching Stars
- Courthouse Steps
- White House Steps
- Pineapple
- VII. The Log Cabin Dances to a New Tune:
- Hexagon
- Triangle
- Diamond and Parallelogram
- Off-Center Log Cabin
- VIII. One Block at a Time or Quilt-as-You-Go:
- Making the Blocks
- Joining the Blocks and Finishing the Backing
- IX. Quilt Care:
- Washing and Cleaning
- Hanging
- Packing and Shipping a Quilt
- Bibliography
- Sources
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Title: The Great American Log Cabin Quilt Book: Complete Patterns and Instructions for Making All Types of Log Cabin Quilts
Author/Designer: Carol Anne Wien
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1984
Publisher: E.P. Dutton, NY
Language: English
Page Count: 140
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11 1/2" x 8 3/4"
ISBN: 0525476733
SUMMARY- Log Cabin was her favorite design - and it shows. She says the magic words in her preface, "I have done my best to create a book that would have proved helpful to me when I was a beginning quiltmaker." With that, you know it's got to be great. She puts her glossary up front and center and she provides a bibliography for further exploration. She could have slapped the word "ultimate" into the title and I wouldn't have blinked. Her secret weapon for cutting fabric strips to the proper length is a paper cutter. I don't feel bad about giving that tidbit because it was in the Table of Contents section that I excerpted because it was all boiler plate(information all books give pro forma) except for that amusing tidbit at the bottom of section II. that said "Hallelujah for the Paper Cutter". All the rest of the ToC is there for your edification. She gives you great diagrams for a great many log cabin configurations - some of which I hadn't seen before - and she gives you non-square Log Cabin blocks just to add that extra dimension of cool to the whole shebang. I love you, Carol Wien - you ROCK.
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