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The Figo Fabrics Lucky Log Cabins quilt

Good morning! Today I’m sharing the Figo Fabrics Lucky Log Cabins quilt!

You can find the Lucky Log Cabins quilt pattern in the Quilty Love shop here.

Lucky Log Cabins is the first quilt pattern in the Quilty Love Stash Buster series. Lucky Log Cabins is a quick and easy stash friendly quilt that you can have sewn together in a weekend.

This log cabin look alike quilt is jelly roll friendly, fat quarter friendly, fat eighth friendly and 1/4 yard friendly! Find one of those in your stash and lets start sewing! Without any background fabrics, this one is a true stash buster.

The original – The Figo Fabrics Lucky Log Cabins quilt

This Figo fabrics version of Lucky Log Cabins is the original one. This was my test quilt or more like my play quilt. Lucky Log Cabins was designed over the course of several months. Usually I have a design in mind before I start sewing but not for this one!

This fat quarter bundle from the Figo Fabrics Sunkissed line was sitting in my stash for a while. I started cutting into without a plan and just enjoyed the process of playing with fabric.

I would work on it here and there as inspiration struck. There was one point where I was pretty sure it would never turn into anything because I just wasn’t feeling it. But I figured if I felt inspired I would go back to it.

And that did happen! I did end up taking out the WIP and working on it again. The Lucky Log Cabin blocks emerged. Once I finished this quilt top, I could not wait to try it again in other fabrics!

Fast and easy quilt pattern

I ended up making five, so as you can see it is quite addicting to make! You will find yourself thinking about other versions as you sew it together ;). Lucky Log Cabins is a quick and easy quilt so you will find yourself sewing up more than one!

Lucky Log Cabins works with so many fabrics

This Sunkissed line by Figo Fabrics is a busier print line when all together like this. But I love how it looks! Since this fabric line really only has a few colors in it, it really works!

All quilt sizes available

As I started working on Lucky Log Cabins and writing it up, I got excited with how versatile it became. It worked so well using so many different pre cuts and it worked easily into just about any quilt size you would need.

The quilt pattern includes instructions for a baby size quilt, a lap size quilt, a throw size quilt, a large throw size quilt, a twin size quilt, a full size quilt, a queen size quilt, and a king size quilt!

I’m so happy that all of the bed sizes are covered in this Lucky Log Cabins quilt pattern. It can be harder to find some of those bed size quilt patterns such as twin and full.

This Sunkissed Figo Fabrics Lucky Log Cabins quilt is the medium throw size.

Stash Buster quilt pattern

As I mentioned before, this is the first in the upcoming Quilty Love Stash Buster quilt pattern series. I’m so excited about this series! The quilts in this series are meant to provide a quilt pattern for you to sew your stash! All of the quilts in the series do not need background fabrics. Without background fabrics, it’s all about using up your fabric stash!

Lucky Log Cabins includes instructions for using jelly rolls, fat quarters, fat eighths, or quarter yards. The larger sizes even include half yards.

So choose your fabrics from your stash and this pattern will help you with cutting for any of them.

Perfect Jelly Roll Quilt Pattern

I always get excited when a Quilty Love quilt pattern is jelly roll friendly. Jelly Rolls are such a fun precut to have and to collect. They are 2.5 inch strips of fabric and usually contain 2 prints each of the entire fabric line. They are one of the more affordable ways to get the entire fabric collection all together.

Plus they are so fun with their little round shapes…lol. Below is an older jelly roll I had just pulled the ribbon off of.

Anyways, Lucky Log Cabins is the perfect Jelly Roll quilt! You will need one or two jelly rolls depending on the size quilt you make. Or if you just have one jelly roll, you can supplement it with some solid or neutral fat quarters or yardage from your stash.

Log Cabin quilt pattern

So Lucky Log Cabins is not a true Log Cabin quilt pattern since the construction is a bit different. But the end result comes out looking very similar to a log cabin quilt block. A true log cabin quilt block is constructed by adding a new log to each side of the block.

Log cabin quilt blocks are so classic though! Lucky Log Cabins is a spin on the log cabin block. I actually named this quilt pattern “Lucky” Log Cabins because it felt kind of lucky that the blocks ended up looking like log cabins. I had no visions of what this quilt would turn into since I started cutting fabric with no plans so the end result did feel lucky 🙂

Figo Fabrics Lucky Log Cabins binding and backing

I used a Peppered cotton wideback on this Figo Fabrics Lucky Log Cabins quilt. I tend to keep a handful of neutral wide backs on hand since they work with so many quilts. With a busier quilt top like this one, that solid backing really tones down the quilt. I’ve used these peppered cottons for quite a few quilts now and really like them. They are more like a linen and nice and soft.

The binding on this Lucky Log Cabins quilt is Kona cotton in the color denim. This denim color has worked on a few of my quilts recently! It’s a really pretty blue solid fabric.

Free motion quilting a stipple pattern

I almost forgot to tell you about the quilting on this log cabin quilt! I actually attempted some free motion quilting! I attempted..(ha) a free motion stipple pattern.

Here is what I have to say about free motion quilting…. It is so enjoyable! But… it is challenging. You will feel like you are doing a terrible job quilting the entire time as a newbie. But it always looks better when you step back and observe the entire quilt!

So while my free motion quilting skills have a lot of room for improvement, I still enjoy doing it every once in a while. A quilt like this one is the perfect free motion practice quilt because it’s busy in its pattern and I wasn’t particularly attached to it or afraid to mess it up.

I pieced and quilted this Figo Fabrics Lucky Log Cabins on my Janome MC6700p. If you want to try free motion quilting you will need a free motion quilting foot that looks like this. Your machine might have come with one so take a look at those extra feet!

Free Motion quilt in sections

I try to work in sections when free motion quilting. Big rectangle sections. Sometimes the hardest thing to figure out about free motion quilting is where to start and where to go. But break your quilt up into sections and start quilting! There is only one way to improve your free motion quilting skills…! And that is by doing!! And possibly messing up a few quilts along the way.

If you look closely at this quilt you can see my stipple isn’t very loopy and swoopy. Instead they are a little more jagged and rough but when you step back and look at the quilt as a whole, it looks much better…lol.

You can find Lucky Log Cabins in the Quilty Love Shop.

Lucky Log Cabins quilt pattern by Quilty Love

Materials Used:
Figo Fabrics Sunkissed
Binding – Kona in Denim
Backing – Peppered Cotton Wideback
Batting – Quilters Dream Select
Pieced and quilted on my Janome MC6700p
Connecting Threads thread

Mammoth Flannel Junior Lucky Log Cabins quilt

Today I am sharing the Robert Kaufman Mammoth Junior Flannel Lucky Log Cabins quilt. Now I know I’ve said this a few times in the past but this one really is my favorite quilt..lol.

Lucky Log Cabins is the first in the Quilty Love Stash buster series and you can find it in my shop here.

So yes, this one really is my favorite! As I was sewing up this mammoth flannel quilt I knew it was going to actually get used around here. I suspected it would end up in the regular quilt rotation and it sure has!

Let me tell you about this Mammoth flannel junior Lucky Log Cabins quilt.

Robert Kaufman Mammoth Junior Flannels

Robert Kaufman has released a few new mammoth junior flannel fat quarter bundles recently and I ended up with a warm and cool bundle. They are so gorgeous!

Robert Kaufman Mammoth jr WARM flannel bundle
Robert Kaufman Mammoth jr COOL flannel bundle

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to do with them. Can you really mix all of these flannels together without it looking like a hot mess? The bundles themselves looked so pretty so I went for it and started mixing!

I wanted to make the large throw size of Lucky Log Cabins so I needed fat quarters from both bundles. But wouldn’t it be pretty to make a quilt with just the warms or just the cools!? You could easily make a small throw size Lucky Log Cabins quilt with just one bundle or even a medium size throw if you add in an extra fat quarter!

I was apprehensive the entire time I was sewing up this quilt. I almost didn’t finish it because I wasn’t sure I would like how it turned out. But experience tells me that it always looks better in the end so I kept sewing.

As soon as this flannel quilt top was done and I stepped back and took a photo I got excited. It did come together and turned into a really pretty cozy flannel quilt.

In the end the blues, teals and pinks became dominant colors preventing it from looking too much like a hot mess…lol.

Below are the 20 fat quarters I used from both the Warm and Cool Robert Kaufman Mammoth junior bundles. You can see I tried to stick with the softer colors from the bundles. I believe I also kept most of the purples out.

Quilting with flannel

A lot of quilters sew flannel with a 1/2 inch seam allowance. Flannel tends to fray (and shrink) more than a quilting cotton does.

I’m going to warn you guys that I did not use a 1/2in seam allowance on this flannel. I have no idea what that means for the future of this quilt but I pretty much sew everything at a 1/4in. I did use a really small stitch length (1.8) and reinforced my half square triangle seams with an extra basting stitch.

So just a word of warning if you want to make the same quilt… You could use a 1/2 inch seam allowance and leave all measurements as is but then your blocks will all be smaller. No big deal though! Or you could cut larger to compensate for the 1/2in seam allowance. It’s just going to get really tight since you need the entire width of fabric. I honestly don’t really recommend that for this pattern.

Most quilters have had no issues using a 1/4 inch seam allowance on flannel

Quilters weighed in on this post on Instagram and most have had zero issues using a 1/4in seam allowance on flannel! So that is good news!

I pretty much sew everything at 1/4 inch and rarely prewash. I really thought Essex Linen frayed worse than this flannel as I was working with it and I always sew Essex linen at 1/4 inch without issues.

Both linen and flannel will shrink quite a bit when they are washed so that also could be why having a larger seam allowance is recommended. Don’t be surprised if your flannel or linen quilt comes out of the dryer several inches shorter on each side! I’m hesitant to wash this one for the first time because I know it’s going to shrink…lol. But it could also make it cozier..

Lucky Log Cabins quilt pattern

Let me tell you about the Lucky Log Cabins quilt pattern!

I am so excited about this quilt pattern. It is the first in the Quilty Love Stash Buster series coming out over the next few months.

Stash buster quilt pattern

Lucky Log Cabins is a true stash buster quilt! There is no background fabric and many different fabric sizes can be used making it the perfect stash quilt!

All the fabric precuts friendly including jelly rolls!

You can use fat quarters, jelly rolls, fat eighths or quarter yards for this quick and easy strip quilt.

I’m so excited that jelly rolls work nicely with Lucky Log Cabins because we could all use a good jelly roll quilt pattern.

Fast and easy quilt pattern

Lucky Log Cabins is a fast and easy stash quilt. It goes together with strip piecing shortcuts making it a quick and easy one to chain piece. It’s quite addicting to make actually, and you will find yourself planning out your next one (or five) as you make it….lol.

Lucky Log Cabins is perfect for the jelly rolls in your stash or that fat quarter bundle you just have no idea what to do with. I’m finding that Lucky Log Cabins looks great in a wide array of fabrics!

Or mix up a bundle from your fat quarter stash for this this quick and easy Log cabin look alike quilt. This blog post talks about sewing from your stash and creating your own bundles.

All the quilt sizes in this fast and easy quilt pattern

I have you covered for every quilt size with Lucky Log Cabins! The quilt pattern includes a baby size, a small throw (lap) size, a medium throw size, a large throw size, a twin size, a full size, a queen size AND a king size! Every quilt size you would need to make is covered!

There are multiple throw sizes. I like them large! This mammoth flannel junior Lucky Log Cabins quilt is a large throw size.

Bed size quilt pattern

And there are multiple bed size quilts in this pattern! Some of those bed size quilt patterns are harder to find. Every bed size quilt is included in Lucky Log Cabins: Twin, full, queen and king.

Back to this flannel Lucky Log Cabins quilt… It really is our new favorite around here! Not only has it made it in to the rotation, it’s the one we all grab first. I actually have it on my lap right now as I type this out on the couch…haha.

Flannel quilt backing

To keep this one super cozy I backed it in flannel also! The backing is actually a flannel duvet I picked up from Ikea a while back. Isn’t it cute! I really love to tone down busy quilt tops with a subtle neutral backing. This polka dot duvet cover couldn’t be more perfect.

Another great flannel backing to use!

If you are looking for a flannel backing with a similar feel, try this grid one from Robert Kaufman! It would be perfect paired with the Mammoth flannel junior bundles.

I used it in this Farmhouse Christmas quilt and actually have more on the way for another quilt.

Piecing my Mammoth junior flannel Lucky Log Cabins

The nice thing about Lucky Log Cabins is the random placement of the fabrics. It’s a quick and easy quilt to put together because you don’t have to put a lot of thought into fabric placement.

However, I did try to put fabric next to each other that flowed. So each strip set coordinates a little bit. Rather than have a high contrast, low contrast, high contrast situation going on in the quilt, it flows a little better when you place fabrics next to each other that play nicely together.

This wasn’t a hard and fast rule and it didn’t always work out but that is how I pieced my Mammoth flannel junior Lucky Log Cabin quilts.

Creative fabric placements in Lucky Log Cabins

You could also start to create all kinds of emerging patterns in Lucky Log Cabins if you started to get intentional with your fabric placements. For example, you might use the same rainbow of color in your strip sets. Or you might place the same color strip in the center each time.

I’m excited to see some clever quilters play around with their fabric placements like that.

Binding fabrics used in this flannel Mammoth Jr Lucky Log Cabins quilt

The only fabric that isn’t flannel in this quilt is the binding! I used a Kona cotton in the color Denim for this cozy flannel Lucky Log Cabins quilt.

Flannel quilt long arm quilting

I sent this flannel Lucky Log Cabins quilt off to Knot and Thread for quilting. Kait chose this fun repeating circle quilting pattern. The batting is an 80/20 quilt batting. Sometimes flannel and linen quilts can get really heavy and thick. This one really isn’t too bad! It doesn’t feel a whole lot heavier than a regular cotton quilt.

Log Cabin Quilt Pattern

I call Lucky Log Cabins a log cabin look alike quilt. It’s not a true log cabin quilt since the construction is different than an actual log cabin quilt block. But the end result of this quilt block ends up looking very similar to a log cabin quilt block.

This quilt probably goes together a little faster than a true log cabin quilt would.

You can find Lucky Log Cabins in the Quilty Love pattern shop:
PDF automatic download – Lucky Log Cabins
Mailed paper copy – Lucky Log Cabins

Fabrics Used:
Robert Kaufman Mammoth Junior bundle in WARM
Robert Kaufman Mammoth Junior bundle in COOL
Binding: Kona Cotton in Denim
Backing is a flannel Ikea Duvet cover – similar option here

Modern Farmhouse Christmas quilt – Quilty Trees

I have the cutest modern farmhouse Christmas quilt to share today! If you need a quick and easy Christmas quilt, this version of Quilty Tree’s is just that.

You can find Quilty Trees in the Quilty Love shop.

I made this quilt for my sister. It’s actually last year’s Christmas present…oops! My sisters and I exchange names for Christmas each year and gift each other a handmade gift.

Since my sister already has a few of my quilts I thought she might be sick of getting quilts…lol. But it turns out that’s not the case. She suggested a Christmas quilt. I immediately thought of a Magnolia style modern farmhouse Christmas quilt for her.

I started searching for the perfect quilt to make but then realized Quilty Trees done up in a gingham would be perfect!

Quilty Trees Quilt pattern

The original version of Quilty Trees is written around fat quarters and comes out a little more scrappy. I modified (and updated) the Quilty Trees quilt pattern to include this repeating block version.

Quick and easy Christmas quilt

The best part about this repeating block version is that it’s fast and easy to make! Since this Christmas quilt is a year late, I needed fast and easy..haha. This version has piecing shortcuts that really speed up the quilting process. I had my quilt top done in about a day.

Or if you are like me, and like to sew up your Christmas quilts around Christmas time a fast and easy one like this is perfect. You can sew it around the holidays and maybe even use it that same season.

About the Quilty Trees quilt pattern

The Quilty Trees quilt pattern is full of options! Especially now that it has been updated!

All the quilt sizes

This farmhouse style Christmas quilt pattern includes instructions to make four different quilt sizes! The pattern includes a baby size quilt, a throw size quilt, a twin size quilt and a queen/king size quilt.

All the quilt options

Quilty Trees has options..lol. The original Quilty Trees quilt is written around fat quarters. You choose some green fat quarters from your stash and make up a fat quarter version.

The original also included a full on scrappy version made up from your scrap stash. You can even use low volume scraps for your background. You can see these quilt block options below.

The new modern farmhouse style quilt option

I call this new version a modern farmhouse style but only because the one I made looks very Magnolia Christmas thanks to the gingham fabric. But this new version I added to the pattern is a repeating block version. So you use yardage instead of fat quarters. The repeating block version is quick and easy to make!

You could make the repeating block Quilty Trees quilt in a green fabric also. Or a green gingham!

Modern Farmhouse Christmas quilt

So I’m super excited about this modern farmhouse style Christmas Quilty Trees quilt! This quilt is very simple in it’s colors and the Carolina Gingham is the star of the show here.

I kind of want to try other quilts in gingham and grey now after this quilt! I kept it simple and farmhouse feeling with a grid flannel backing.

Fabrics used in this Farmhouse Christmas quilt

The black gingham is Carolina gingham by Robert Kaufman.

The background is Essex Linen in steel by Robert Kaufman.

The binding is Kona Charcoal.

The backing is a grid flannel by Robert Kaufman.

Wavy Machine quilting

I quilted this farmhouse Christmas quilt myself on my Janome MC6700p. I went with the usual wavy stitch. I can’t even bring myself to do straight line quilting anymore because I just love how this wavy stitch crinkles up!

I usually space my lines 3/4 inch apart. I start on one edge and quilt 1.5 inch lines. I then go back and fill in lines 3/4 inch apart. This wavy stitch is a stitch on my machine and does all of the work! You basically quilt in straight lines using a a walking foot and the stitch makes the waves.

This quilting tutorial will walk you through a similar style of quilting. Just switch up the stitch and it works the same!

You can find the pattern to make your own farmhouse Christmas quilt in my pattern shop.

Rainbow Ombre Lucky Log Cabins quilt

Do I have a colorful quilt to share with you today! Today’s post is the Rainbow Ombre Lucky Log Cabins quilt.

If you have never sewn with ombre fabrics yet… run and get yourself some! They turn every quilt into magic!

The Lucky Log Cabins quilt pattern is available in the Quilty Love shop.

Ombre Lucky Log Cabins quilt kit

You can find an ombre Lucky Log Cabins quilt kit here! The kit includes all of the fabrics you need for the quilt top.

The quilt pattern is in my shop here.

Stash buster quilt pattern

Lucky Log Cabins is the first quilt in the new Stash Buster quilt series coming out over the next few months. This one is a true stash buster!

You can use various cuts from your stash such as fat quarters, fat eighths, jelly rolls or 1/4 yards. This stash buster quilt doesn’t require any background fabric so it actually uses up that fabric in your stash!

You can see the pretty rainbow trimmings in the photo above. Those trimmings are all that get left when using fat quarters. So you really use up every square inch of a fat quarter.

Rainbow Ombre Lucky Log Cabins quilt

This ombre version of the Lucky Log Cabins quilt uses the popular VandCo ombre. This is the newest ombre fabric in the collection and it’s called Fairy Dust Ombre.

You can find this exact quilt kit here!

Lucky Log Cabins would look amazing in any of the ombre lines!

Piecing this Ombre Lucky Log Cabins quilt

The nice thing about this Log Cabin look alike quilt is the fact that you don’t have to overthink fabric placement. It’s a quick and easy quilt because it has a lot of chain piecing and basically random piecing.

I placed like colors together when making my blocks and a lot of times the blocks were made from just one or two different fat quarters. Just flip the strips so the light and darks are on opposite sides as you piece your strip sets.

You can see some of my blocks actually bleed into another color. So my color placement isn’t perfect but the nice thing about Ombre is that in the end it’s going to look super cool! There is no need to overthink Ombre!

Modern Ombre Fade Quilt

I arranged my quilt blocks in an Ombre Fade. I stuck with the color order in the original bundle. So if you want to do something similar, keep your colors and strips in that general order as you work on the quilt.

I think Lucky Log Cabins would look really good with a completely random placement too! With each block being a mix of colors and no ombre fade. I might try that some day with all of my extra ombre fabric stash.

Lucky Log Cabins quilt

Lucky Log Cabins is a log cabin look alike. It’s not a true log cabin quilt as the construction is a bit different. However, when I was creating this quilt, the fact that the end block looked similar to log cabins felt like a lucky find. That’s where the name Lucky Log Cabins comes from.

A true log cabin quilt block is constructed by continuing to add “logs” to each side as the block grows. Lucky Log Cabins is a strip pieced quilt with a few shortcuts that end up looking like a log cabin block.

Jelly Roll quilt pattern

I’m really excited that Lucky Log Cabins ended up being such a great jelly roll friendly quilt pattern. Jelly Rolls are a really fun precut to collect but they require specific patterns since they are all 2.5in strips.

Lucky Log Cabins is the perfect way to use up those jelly rolls in our stash. Depending on the throw size you choose, you will need one to two jelly rolls.

Lucky Log Cabin Quilt sizes

This rainbow ombre Lucky Log Cabins quilt is the large throw size. You will also find a baby size, lap size, medium throw size, twin size, full size, queen size and king size in the pattern instructions.

The fact that this quilt pattern is super stash friendly and includes any size quilt you could possibly need, its super versatile. Have I mentioned how fun and addicting this one is too?! It’s going to be the quilt pattern you can reach for again and again.

The quilting on this Rainbow Ombre Lucky Log Cabins quilt

I sent this rainbow Lucky Log Cabins quilt off to a long arm quilter. Jenae of Vintage Stitch did an amazing job finishing off this colorful quilt. I love this quilting design she chose as it adds a lot of movement to this already glowing quilt. I highly recommend Jenae! She has done a handful of quilts for me lately and all look amazing!

Ombre Lucky Log Cabins backing and binding

The backing of this super colorful rainbow quilt is a peppered cotton wideback. I had this grey wideback fabric on hand so it was an easy choice to use. I tend to tone down my ombre quilts with pretty neutral backings.

The binding is a purple ombre from the VandCo Ombre Fairy Dust fabric line. I believe its two purple fat quarters from the bundle that I didn’t use in the quilt.

Any one of the ombres will work well as a binding for an ombre quilt. If you have extra Ombre fabrics you could even use them to make a scrappy binding. That would look really good on an ombre quilt like this.

Quick and easy quilt pattern

The ombre fabrics in this Lucky Log Cabins quilt make this look more intense and involved than it is. This modern log cabin look alike quilt is super fast and easy and such a great way to use up the ombre in your stash.

Or just your stash in general! Below are some of the other Lucky Log Cabin quilts I’ve made! I’ll add links below as the blog posts become available.

Check out this blog post if you need some tips and tricks for mixing fabrics and making bundles from your stash!

Flannel Lucky Log Cabins – not blogged yet
Solids Lucky Log Cabins quilt blog post
Figo Fabrics Lucky Log Cabins quilt – not blogged yet