Wonky Log Cabins Part One - Making blocks
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- This is the second in the series about log cabins, the kind made from fabric 😉
In this video I demonstrate how I piece a block using several different techniques and various kinds of cloth.
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Can I please have a sick note for my boss? I don't want to work anymore, I want to sew, sew, sew!!!! Thank you for all your skills, tuition and expertise, these videos must take you hours!!! and I appreciate every one and watch them over and over again xx
Thank you Kelly, I am so happy you like the videos ❤️
Me toooo! The only bad part about that is i am my boss.but i still want to sew.
@@rebeccaday7076 😂❤️❤️❤️
Yes please, notes for everyone so we can all stay home and sew. 😂❤😊
Thanks for putting me squarely in “cloud cookie land” with these videos❤
Thank you Kathryn for your video and company. No rulers,complicated maths ,rotary cutters or any of the other paraphernalia I associate with quilting. Talk about myth busting. I watch you , you are clear, logical and understandable. Result, yes I can do this but more importantly , I can and I will do this. The time and effort you take for these videos is very much appreciated.
Thank you Carol, it's truly my pleasure. I want you to enjoy this slowstitch thing as much as I do. 😁❤️❤️❤️
I to want to thank you for your time, patience, willingness to share. You are a very easy person to work with and listen to. I look forward to every week.. grateful to you k3n.❤❤❤
@@louannwilde6381 thank you so much for appreciating ❤️
I really liked the way you stitched your log cabin block. I never really liked log cabin when I was quilting years ago, so I never actually made one. But this looks so lovely. I think the colours and the raw edges and the 'looseness' of style is really appealing to me. I think I have to make some! Thanks Kathryn ..
My pleasure Marion ❤️❤️❤️
OMGosh! I can't keep up with you! I love watching you create and the other day when you said you made another rice bag using the hexes, I almost fainted! Do a video on time management! Thank YOU!!! Fantastic! 💓
😁 re the time management, I stitch all evening, every evening and in winter, sometimes during the day as well as there is less to do outside. Although I am firmly and absolutely a slow stitcher, I have got quite quick over the years, if that makes sense. 😂❤️
My 3rd viewing ❤ When you say "I can only do me" that is exactly who we love and why we watch. You could never be boring...we learn so much from you and we appreciate you and who your are❤
Thank you so much Pam, I feel all the appreciation from you all and it makes me happier than you can imagine. ❤️❤️❤️
😊 I see! a useful unique way of using small bits of clothes. Nothing needs to be thrown away. Thank you.
You’re welcome 😊
Organised but liberating - just my sort of log cabin!
Hello Kathryn, greetings from Amelia in Tasmania (Australia). My first experience of sewing a quilt was with the log cabin design. I purchased all brand new fabric, carefully measured and cut every individual log, and proceeded to machine sew the pieces together. Numbers, straight lines and an obsession with precision, stripped my project of fun. Although I felt proud to have finished, the project was lifeless. My sewing was neat and uniform, and stripped of any personality...that was 30 years ago and I've never sewn another quilt, not even wanted to. I have learnt now that it is ok to break/question the rules and that imbues projects with my personality. An 'imperfect', organic approach to creating, is quite perfect and satisfying. And that's what I'd tell my younger self.
Thank you for sharing Kathryn.
Hello Amelia my absolute pleasure, I am glad you have found the freedom of creativity without perfection. 😊❤️
Super inspiring tutorial yet again! My list of slow stitch projects is growing......and growing!☺
I think you make perfect sense when you explain different issues to consider when adding logs to the cabin. I love the randomness in your choices. The final product is quite beautiful. Thank you for these tutorials, you are a joy to watch and listen to. 😊. Rules are meant to be broken.
Love this❤️
Your videos are just delightful. Thanks so much for sharing
Now you really did it Kathryn….when you showed me your log cabin wall hangings i felt a tingle. And after watching this video i think i am obsessed with log cabins. My son is getting a little better so i am able to do some creating of sorts. Log cabins it is. Thanks you so much, i just cant imagine how much time you spend on making and uploading etc. all this for us.💖🍀Machteld
My pleasure Machteld so pleased your son is doing better. Enjoy the log cabins 🥰
SO funny, I'm just re-watching a couple of these as I'm trying a seamed log cabin. You were saying about having lights and darks sorted making it easier and I'm up to my elbow in one of my scrap bags 🤣😂🤣
Not a bad place to be 😉😁❤️
This revolutionizes my whole idea of log cabin quilting 🥰
Thank you, K3N for this amazing gift ❤❤❤
I just love having you in my room stitching and chatting. I was so looking forward to this video. I did not watch any how to do log cabin videos either cuz I knew you would softly and patiently show us how it is done. I'm in love with this. Slow deliberate stitching and creating something. I just stuck a couple of old pillowcases in my projects bag so I'm gonna start this tomorrow. I'll be watching this more than once! I stitched half a dozen 6 inch blocks of fall things, acorns sunflowers pumpkins and such for a fall table runner and having blocks of these between and around will be stunning. You have such a gift of inspiration! I got in a slump about doing any more in that and it's just another half finished project and I've just been quilting hearts to stay occupied. Now I can't wait to start on this! Hugs big big hugs!
Wonderful to hear, log cabins will be perfect in your Fall runner ❤️
Lovely. Thank you for sharing this.
I have to admit I had never heard of Log Cabin, not being a quilter. I am going to have a go at a small square. Thank you again for showing all of us.
Snippy snip! Love it! I feel like that is now how I will say cut from now on. Loving the wonky log cabins.
Dear Kathryn, was lovly morning with you and cup of coffee.Lowe yor work❤
Wild stitching ……no measuring needed …marvellous!
Yes! Love the phrase wild stitching 😁❤️
A really enjoyable video. Thank you. I’ve watched a number of quilt videos with all the rotary cutters, special rulers, machines to do the actual sewing etc. The results are lovey. But, frankly, both daunting and unaffordable just on a “trial” basis. Watching something being created, which is equally as beautiful as the “professional” ones without the implied rules inspires and builds confidence to just have a bit of a go and see what happens. I am now looking forward to seeing the finished piece and watching it build over the coming weeks.
Thank you Angela, I used to use all that stuff but find it so much more engaging and pleasurable nowadays to use simple tools and less pressure. ❤️
I’ve always loved log cabin but never in the mood for measuring or sitting at the sewing machine….SOOOOO THIS IS VERY EXCITING FOR ME!!! Thank you for your sharing!🙏🏼
Finally figured out how to fit in 2 tutorials a week. I love anything with the word wonky in it. With the fabric I pulled today, a bit of fussy cutting gave me lights and darks from one fabric. 😊
Excellent 😁♥️
Thank you, Kathryn, for all your wonderful videos ❤❤
It’s 3:45 am and I have NO business being up this late, but can’t wait til morning to watch.
Thank you so much, I am sorry you can't sleep but happy to keep you company 😁🥰
What a lovely start to my morning - thank you for all these wonderful videos. Hope you didn't have to sit outside the Town Hall all night to upload it!
Yes woken up to your notification..hurray
Hi Lynn, no it all went ok this time 😁❤️
I love your videos, so inspiring! I've made 3 rice bags and am working on a book cover. I find myself saying "a plee kay" while I stitch. Beautiful work!!
Thank you, and for helping spread the word app-plee-kay 😂
Thanks for another great tutorial, Karyn. I love log cabin blocks and especially wonky ones. I love how the three inch blocks when sewn together make a six inch block - they look great butted up against each other. I'm inspired to do something similar for a rice bag 😘🥰
Thanks Kathryn. You’re such an inspiration! X
Hi, lovely Kathryn! I know I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again: you teach perfectly. In my opinion, everything you explain makes sense. So when you say “I hope it makes sense”, it does. Don’t forget I’m not a native speaker, so there are words that may not be so familiar. Apart from the inches (we use the metric system), I find your videos so well explained.
I am in love with this! I am! I have an old cushion in desperate need of a new dress 😆, so I am thinking either of making a bag (I am crazy about bags😆) or a cushion… or both 😂 I don’t like to measure so this is perfect for me!
Thanks for a wonderful hour (if it were two, I surely wouldn’t mind 😊) 🤎💙❤️💛🤍🩵💚🩷🧡💜♥️😢
Hello lovely Alexandra, thank you I am glad it makes sense. I know English isn't your first language but you speak (write?) it brilliantly. 😁 Certainly better than my French, which is my only other language besides English. 😉 Yes I have witnessed your bag craziness, long may it continue because they are beautiful. 🥰
@@k3n.clothtales Thank you for your compliment on my English 🙏🏻🤗❤️
Thank you so much for this video, I have a not very precise group of exact log cabins for a quilt and have just put them in the naughty corner, so to see you doing log cabins this way is so wonderful. My only regret is I didn’t find you before I started the “precise” log cabin because I want to make a quilt using gorgeous blocks like these ❤
Hello Carol, could you not combine your 'naughty' blocks with wonky ones? ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Good idea, the naughty ones are between 13” and 14” big would it still work?
Yes, you could make wonkies at 7" square then four of those would be the same size as a 14" naughty... And you could call the finished quilt the Naughty, Wonky Quilt 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Love it, thank you ❤️
Mind reader! Looking about for a piece of silk for the Tricksy Fabrics piece I remembered an old cushion that had a very worn silk cover…so,of course, I now need to make a new cushion cover…maybe a log cabin one 😀🙏🏼
Yeayyyy 😁❤️
Well who would have thought, I actually prefer the look and making up of wonky log cabin. I so enjoyed watching this video, I’m sorting my “lights and darks” as we speak. Your tuition and inspiration is priceless, thank you so much for sharing, it’s brought my love for sewing back in bounds
So pleased to hear that Jean ❤️
Oh my gosh! Your hands are beautiful. I wish I had them. I so admire them. Mine are terrible cause of anxiety that I bite my nails. I also like that you don't wear bright color polish which is distracting on other videos. I'm so in love with your log cabin blocks. I want to make a small log cabin block book like yours.
Thank you so much, I haven't worn nail polish for years, it wouldn't last five minutes. 😁 I am sorry you bite your nails because of anxiety, I wish I could give you a hug. I hope you enjoy making a little log cabin book. ❤️
I agree with Kelly, I don't want to go to work now!! I must leave in an hour and a half! I just want to play with the fabric and stitch away. Thank you for sharing again, so fun watching you. I will have to watch again and have a think on fabrics. This will be fabulous to see how many variations we see.
I wish I had the power to issue sick notes all round 😉😁
A bunch of us would be asking for a work pass!!@@k3n.clothtales
I absolutely love your videos! So glad I found you! I have always wanted to do patchwork but I knew I could never get it perfect. That would have really bothered me….. do I never did it! now you have given me assurance that I can do patch work in my style and have it wonky and it can look even better!! Thank you 🙏 and keep making your wonderful videos xxxx
You are so welcome!
When I first saw the 4 log cabin squares, my first thought was Japanese rice bag. I’ve watched that video of yours a couple of times and am getting ready to make one, now I’ve got a great idea for a log cabin rice bag
I recently finished my little one, I will show it in the next log cabin video ☺️
Speaking of large cotton fabric pieces.....I was doing a nature call one morning and noticed my shower curtain and realized it was cotton and started to grin thinking of reasons to "throw it out" and get a new curtain! Then I would have this beautiful piece of fabric to sew with! Hahaha 😅
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Just found you and love everything you are doing! I am excited to join the 52 week challenge. I have been busy trying to catch up.
I love the freedom of your tutorials, even when I measure carefully and use a 1/4” piecing foot on the machine, my blocks end up wonky , which can be very dispiriting! I don’t know if you have young children in your life but The Wonky Donkey is a lovely book and it may appeal to you! ❤
Yes I used to be a 'normal' quilter and remember all that stressing. 😉 My children are in their twenties and no grands on the horizon but I will look up the Wonky Donkey because it sounds wonderful 😊
Just stunning love, the simplicity of your concept and the fabric's you used to the conventional way of making the blocks, if you know what I mean, Normal quilting way always stuffed me up lol
Thank you so much for the info on cloth to sew with, without fighting with it lol, i totally get your way of thinking xx
Thank you happy you like it 😊
I love this.❤
I’m so envious of all of you who have so much scrap fabric! I have a lot of catching up to do 😂
Thank you I find your videos inspiring. Looking forward to to the next video. Happy stitching
Thank you so much for your video's x
Очень красивые квадраты получилось.❤
What a great tutorial , absolutely loved every minute of it thank you once again for your time . I’m going to make a few blocks and see how I get on , love the wonky no stress approach. ❤
Thank you hope you enjoy ❤️
Thank you for another wonderful video! 😊
I find these soft, muted colors so appealing, soothing, desirable! ❤️
I know there are many, many tutorials on YT on eco dying, but I’m wondering if you are planning to do any when the weather warms up. You may have said in a previous video, and I’ve forgotten - sorry! I hope you will; you know how much we love your teaching style, Kathrine.
Hugs from Montana, USA.
Hello Annie, yes I will do some ecoprinting videos later in the year somewhere online. Wherever they end up, I will definitely announce it here though. ❤️
Thank you! 😊
I love the way you give us the freedom to do what we think should go next, after years of stitching traditional log cabins . Thank you 🙏
My pleasure 😊
Your style reminds me of Japanese quilting. They seem to love neutrals and very organic colors and stitching. Beautiful indeed!
Thank you, I am very inspired by Japanese quilters, especially Yoko Saito. I must talk about her work in a future video for those who don't know her. ❤️
I do a lot of slow stitching but I am a quilter too and made log cabins; drawing, measuring and precise sewing by hand. Loved it but this is fun, enjoyed your video, thank you
I love this thank you, I wish I could sup-ort with a coffee but I don;t do pay pal. You are well worth it. Blessings
Thank you Janet, watching, commenting and subscribing is also supporting me 😉❤️
I love log cabin. I think it’s my favourite block. I once saw some wonderful antique ones in York including some real Manx ones. I believe the quilt guild rooms have now closed. ❤❤❤
I heard that too but I just checked the website and it seems to be open, at least a version of it. Plus, the whole collection is available to view online. Not the same as in person I know. 😁❤️
Hello I started to watch this earlier... was interrupted...back for real🎉😂❤
Hello from Beautiful British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you...confess i have not done log cabin. I had one onmy bed that my grandmother made😅
Welcome back 😁❤️
Wow, gorgeous ❤
I'm glad that you have a Ko-fi page! Thanks for letting me know. Also, K3N, have you considered putting time markers in your videos for different phases of your process? I'm not sure what YT calls that (making chapters???) but it helps with referencing milestones if a viewer , after watching the full episode and going away, wants to come back to see a certain part again.
Hi there, I think YT puts timestamps automatically but it might take a while? I will look into it. 😁❤️
Hello, I have the impression that you have to do it. If you find out please let me know! I do think subtitles are done automagically like that! @@k3n.clothtales
Automagically 😁❤️
Love it, very inspirering Thank you x
I find if a watch the video once and just take it in and then go back a second time to do the item it helps. And I don’t like following directions so I rather like there is no precision here 😂. No right or wrong way really so this suits my style ❤.
Thanks!
thank you so much ♥️
Mesmerizing...... every second of every video you have shared with us. I am addicted to slow stitching. I'm in my 70s and have always had friends and relatives who were "traditional quilters" with all of the measuring and rules and perfect seams and it did not appeal to me. I always loved and admired the finished quilts, but had no interest in all of that measuring, precision and rules. Slow stitch is my thing. With this wonderful video, I can now look forward to wonky, organic, intuitive log cabin blocks as part of my slow stitching journey. Thank you.... as always. Love your videos. I had never heard of Osnaburg cotton. I have been using a wonderful lightweight 100% cotton muslin that I found on U.S. Amazon. It is like a lightweight sheet and it sews beautifully. And it is available in both natural color and bleached. In order to do these log cabin blocks, I need to get some lighter color fabrics. Most of my limited stash is darker colors... particularly blue/green batik cottons which I love. I need to expand my stash to include lighter colors for log cabin blocks. I shall go rummage in local thrift shops.........
Thank you 😊 you could have a look at the back of your cloth, some might be lighter. The batiks will obviously be the same both sides. 😉❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Excellent idea. I shall do that......Thank you !!
Hello from south wales,uk.
Hello 🤗
Hi Kathryn, just in case it looks a bit weird …. but at last got into ko -fi and joined etc then paid for a ‘coffee’ then some how I cancelled it!! I will sort it out but I didn’t want you to think I changed my mind. I’ll leave a couple of days to make sure I’m not tripling it 😊 also I found out that I had an account….. who knew!! 😂 ahh the hassles of technology.
Love this way of doing log cabins so stress free cheers Cathy A
Hello Cathy, there were two Cathys on Kofi this morning one after the other, hope you didn't pay twice! One was just Cathy and the other was Cathy Anderson 🤔❤️
@@k3n.clothtales yep that was me😆😆both times but I’m happy with that as you have been posting since November.
All good, I’ll sort it out.
I actually find this funny as I should be able to navigate this sort of thing cheers
Thank you. 😊
Sweet!!
I have a bolt of Osnaburg my favourite cloth for many projects absolutely wonderful to stitch 🥰 I used it for the 5” squares for the k3n projects either pages or backings 💝
Hi Susan it's lovely cloth isn't it ❤️
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I can't tell you how much I needed this today! I've started trying making log cabin blocks from the intro video because I was impatient but that only gave me frustrations because I was getting overwhelmed at perfect rotary trimmed strips and such. Ugh. I want to just stitch and not focus on the silly measuring. I had to rewind and listen to the part about your partner liking straight edges. I fear my style of quilt will not be his. But oh well. I'm sure he will love the end result of my "art" because he always does. Question-would a light weight flannel be the wrong kind of foundation? I want a quilt for warmth and you don't mention wadding/batting in the building of the blocks. What am I missing here? I'm going to start making strips but I'm torn between using old cloth or new to me cloth that I got from a thrift store, unused brand new quilting cottons. Hmm...choices! Love this tutorial series. Thanks!!!
Hello Michelle, yes you could use flannel as long as it's nice to stitch through, bearing in mind the layers. I will talk more about wadding in next week's episode about joining the blocks, though I know you are champing at the bit to get started. 😂 I would say, make a few blocks with your flannel and see how it goes, if you make say four at 6" square, they could become a little cushion, but view them as practice. 😁❤️
Absolutely love this method of log cabin block making👏🏻👏🏻😍😍👍. I have always been wanting to make some blocks but hated all the measuring and cutting. Everything being so precise but you have totally given me a way to do it and be totally happy doing it. Thank you so much!!💞💞🫶🏻🫶🏻
My pleasure 😊
Good moring K3n....your English and talking about money is uncomfortable 😂....ok so let's talk logcabins.. loving the loos higgledy-piggledy aproch definitelymy style...thanks for sharing always..Q. why not patrion? much easier for many to access and manover/ user friendly...think about it..... can you believe hump day where is the week going? You know that saying time goes faster when you're older... now that I'm 59 I find it's true😂😂😂
Good morning, I did look at Patreon but seems like a whole extra endeavour which I am not up to at the moment, still getting used to the tech. Kofi is easy and links straight to TH-cam. One step at a time my friend 😁
I believe in you.........patrion dose the same...9k slowly slowly catchy monkey 😂😂😂😂...
I have a wonderful silky soft pillowcase that's been Eco died or perhaps just had light brown leaves on it. It's one of those pieces you just cannot bear to use or cut up. So last night I boiled a pot of coffee and went out on the porch as and gathered leaves and added the juice off a jar of black olives and let a white pillowcase soak all night. It's slightly off white but not nearly what i wanted . what did I do wrong? 40:34
The process of ecoprinting is more complex than that I am afraid. I am guessing the olives were in brine which won't have much if any effect and leaves need to be bundled and processed with heat. I am sorry, it's far too much to explain in a comment. You could maybe have a go at tea and rust dyeing for starters, there is a two part tutorial on my channel. ❤️
That was really interesting.
Could you please tell me what font you used in your advert. For the writing Wonky Log Cabins Part One etc.? I have been searching for the name. Thankyou so much.
Thank you, I will have a look for the font. I use Canva to make my adverts.. I will be back 😉
Had a look, it's called Charm 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Thankyou. Appreciate it.
Hi Kathryn - so will this block end up as a five inch block?
Regards Rhonda
If the foundation square starts at 5" and you use the butting up method to join (in the next video) then yes, it will remain 5" 😁♥️
Every once and a while you mention that you have added information below that we can go to see more information on what you are doing. How do I find that?
Hello, it's in the description below each video, you have to click the word 'more' to see it. 😉❤️
Would a man’s cotton white hanky work as a foundation cloth?
Yes as long as it's not too tight a weave, try 'stitching' through it with an empty needle first. ♥️
This will take me awhile to figure out. It just has to click with me.
I am sure you will get there. If I can help further, let me know ❤️