Manx quilt

This is the beautiful folded log cabin quilt made by Grandma Langille that Edith brought for show and share at our last Guild meeting. I just love all the scrappy colours. It inspired me to make two folded log cabin blocks but mine pale in comparison. And here's a closeup Her quilt was made with approximately quarter inch folds where my two blocks were made with half inch folds. Here's an even closer look at a block. The dark and light choices of fabrics are very subtle when looking at only…

The other night at quilt guild one of our members was showing some antique quilts made by her grandmothers. A folded log cabin quilt caught everyone's interest. I will post a picture of it here once I have her permission. I went looking for the instructions on how to make a folded log cabin block and found several that used strips of fabric folded in half, but if you lifted the folded edges you would have been able to see the stitching and this particular quilt you could not. I finally found…

Aaron Sanders Head on Instagram: "The Manx blocks I mentioned in yesterday’s post are multiplying. I used a gifted vintage quilt top as the base fabric for these new blocks. The woman who pieced that original quilt top made some pretty risky pattern and color decisions, and any fabric was fair game. It feels good to work in that same tradition with these reimagined blocks."

Introduction to Manx quilting - a quilt as you go style of log cabin quilt block - made by hand. Developed by inhabitants of the Isle of Man.

This is a doll quilt (or little wall hanging) I made, using a folded log cabin pattern. Oscar our Dachshund, was thinking about joini...

This is the beautiful folded log cabin quilt made by Grandma Langille that Edith brought for show and share at our last Guild meeting. I just love all the scrappy colours. It inspired me to make two folded log cabin blocks but mine pale in comparison. And here's a closeup Her quilt was made with approximately quarter inch folds where my two blocks were made with half inch folds. Here's an even closer look at a block. The dark and light choices of fabrics are very subtle when looking at only…

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Block #9 from the Patchwork Quilt Along hosted by the Fat Quarter Shop. A new, free quilt block pattern released every month.

Wondering how to make a tradtional Manx Quilt Block? Top US quilting blog, Diary of a Quilter, features their step by step guide. Click here now!!

Wondering how to make a tradtional Manx Quilt Block? Top US quilting blog, Diary of a Quilter, features their step by step guide. Click here now!!