In my haul from Mr Wedding Dress Man was some raw silk material, I liked the colours but was not too sure what to do with it. I mulled it over for some time but remained uninspired.
Then another quilting book prompted me into action. Maggi McCormick Gordon's The Quilting Sourse book has a logcabin block with wide strips on one side and thinner to the other giving the optical allusion of a curve.
To my mind that meant I could do flowers, logcabin flowers.
I did not get enough of a curve to the logcabin itself to fully get the effect I was after so I quilted flower shapes to try and get the feel across. Next time I try a curved logcabin I need to make the difference between the thick and thin strips greater.
The backing is cream, and the binding is in cotton, I was quite please how close a match it was with the green raw silk.
To my mind that meant I could do flowers, logcabin flowers.
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| Raw silk logcabin |
I did not get enough of a curve to the logcabin itself to fully get the effect I was after so I quilted flower shapes to try and get the feel across. Next time I try a curved logcabin I need to make the difference between the thick and thin strips greater.
The backing is cream, and the binding is in cotton, I was quite please how close a match it was with the green raw silk.
This is a link added in 2026 to BBC Songs of Praise as "Mr Wedding Dress Man" features with his wedding dress exhibition. Songs of Praise - Celebrating Long-Lasting Partnerships - BBC iPlayer it is around the middle of the programme.
