Freehand Quilting Ideas for a Log Cabin Block - Quilting Tutorial

hey everybody it's Cory from Linda's electrical ters and today I am here in beautiful star Valley Wyoming with the one and only Lynda V Taylor and we are working on a log cabin call today ironically ironically because we are in a log cabin and it's snowing and so we wanted to give you a couple of different free hand quilting ideas for a log cabin quilt some a little bit more basic and easier that's kind of my wheelhouse and then she'll take it to be a little bit more elegant a little more classy a little bit more advanced so you can have kind of both ways of looking at how you would quote a log cabin freehand sounds good let's get started before we do that though Oh quick quick before we do that though make sure that you are subscribed to our YouTube channel so right down there at the bottom right hand corner click on that button and after you click on it make sure you click on the little bell that shows up so you can get notified whenever we go live or whenever we post new videos all right let's go let's go okay Cory you know log cabins when they're put together there's so many ways to put them together they're so interesting right so many new things that they're coming up with all the time but basically it's a light in the dark side and kind of a triangular shape right that's how it and when you put them together then you get kind of this look and you can see how I taken this feather down all the way through this quilt and you know added things like that and I'll show that so you can see kind of how I did that feather but these aren't together so I can't do that right but one of the things that I do do as I'm stabilizing the quilt I will either stitch in the ditch or this is called a serpentine line [Music] a little big there just a little it's a curve yeah yeah so I do this all the way down through the quill in order to stabilize the quilt okay okay so and so that's how I stabilize gotcha all right got it now I'm not sure how the feather would come on this light area but your light area is where you want to really focus your girl team because the dark is going to probably blend in a little bit we want something interesting there but it's a light area that people look at first doctor okay so if maybe the next area was coming around from there I would just be first of all I need to do kind of a you know a line through here somehow all right and then I can start my feathers and they've got to reach into each of these points and I really like doing the I'm going the wrong direction with this I think there we go around just kind of follow the edge of that you see how I'm reaching out into each of those areas right it'll turn my speed up I'm in constant oh now I'm in where I need to be sorry about that oh I love this I could do this well in 15 minutes you know yeah then I'm gonna come back I'm gonna put stems in them I love those stems now this light area is really going to show off those feathers right okay but of course I have to have more on the other side and there would be another block there for sure for me you know I mean it's hard just doing this this one block because they always go together [Music] so we'll start here [Music] don't worry if every feather looks exactly the same people freak out over the weirdest things you believe it I'm gonna put tear drops in these normally I would do the same you know just put a stem in them right you know this is a sampler yeah switch it up a little bit so that you have ideas all right so that would be that would be you know it just wavy on the quilt right like this example that we have okay okay Cory in this other area the dark side you know the dark you have to decide where you're gonna what you're gonna do with that middle thing if you got the middle like that see they're gonna be on the dark side of the light side this one would have normally been on the light side right but I'm gonna use it the dark side and make a special design in there I think that's what I'm thinking yeah yeah I got it in my head so you could do any kind of a meandering you could do anything that you wanted to hear because it's probably not gonna show a lot okay but I want to do show you another technique it's Linda's Egyptian curl and I'm gonna at the top of it I'm gonna make it a little pointed so it's a little different I've seen gotcha so it would be a really good idea though for me to just from this corner to here to just use the chalk pencil and these are just the pastel chalk pencils that I like to use because they erased so easy and they don't stay on the quilt I'm just making a line there because guess what diagonal lines kind of hard for me and yeah yeah that so here I go it's gonna go fast everybody ready I hope I'm ready okay so I'm gonna come up here like this come in here like this but I'm gonna have a point on the top of that one okay and then I'm gonna come in and start doing the Egyptian curl which is I'm coming over into this area touch the tip of the last one and then come back down oh these are so fun so fun really swing out there watch how I can force this to go into the area I want it to go I don't have to worry about where I've been right because I'm gonna go over the top of where I've been and that's what's the best part you don't have to worry about that coming up here I can see I have one more that I'm gonna do to fill that corner almost back to the very corner now and right here now I don't have to go all the way back I can stop right there and start making more curls and they're gonna be really pretty in this bright orange fabric right they're gonna look like another design looks like I'm in that batter yeah you see how I just yeah touch and down just like no you didn't go up there before it doesn't matter go and down maybe one more right there to make sure that that gets quilted then I'll go up again and I'm gonna go in toward it point and down oh it did exactly what I wanted it to look at that it made a really pretty design in that white area and I will do the very same thing here that I did over there yeah come around oops there we go and down I'm gonna swing out over here I feel like I could have put one more in there so I'll just go do it right now ha ha I just want you to know that this is just like forgivable right you don't it doesn't have to be I'm sure you could make it absolutely perfect if you weren't going 200 miles an hour I like it it's a different look they're all gonna be unique yeah which is really nice yeah how's your eye looking for things and you see in that orange area how that curl just really made that into a design didn't it right yeah [Music] hello that's fun that's fun okay now it's your turn okay all right Linda so I'm over here on my log cabin and I'm gonna kind of do two different things like you did but I'm gonna be marking a lot of stuff out cuz I want to follow it a specific way okay so I'm going to take this ruler and my chalk pencil and I want to kind of break this into a triangle on this side and a triangle on this side yeah so I'm just coming in with that chalk line doesn't that be absolutely perfect I actually just go to here have that diagonal line here all the way over okay and I'm going to start in the center because that's where I have all my when it comes to marketing that's where I had all these piecing lines so I'll mark those down two towards the center best I can I know this gives me a line to follow and then from that point I want to measure off because I want to ask about basically certain channels to follow with them okay but that little different design they leave some blank so I'm going to measure these off and we'll do we'll do two inch channels doing there make it easier there there there and this last one would be a little tiny one so I'll do the same thing on this other side and this is just going to give me that marking that I need to give it a straight line all the way out making sure it's parallel with that center line yes okay yeah yeah so following along with that it's a double checking now that you've got me wondering if you can use if these points are all even just seeing how you have a point point point point point you know of course you wouldn't come and clear down to here but wouldn't oh I see what you're talking about okay yeah that could do that too cuz it unless they were yeah they would be even yeah they would be so using this point you mean uh-huh and then coming in and finding where this one is right as long as it right now without national line should be okay yeah so we're gonna use this line on stone so I've got this point mean correct you know you're fine it's just something yeah it's something to think of yeah something to think of for sure I'd even think about that one that one out there somewhere okay well two different sizes that's what we'll go with that's okay all righty so kind of staying in that same parallel idea would be following this all the way out mm-hmm so making sure that that line is staying straight from here all the way out to there and I'll start with our center one first why not and then I can just use this as a guide won't turn that down just a little bit for me all right I switched back over to regulated mode you were in constant yeah that means I have what I need this I need to go into a regulated so I'm good I'm going to drop down to that two inch mark so I'm kind of following in the ditch to that two inch mark and then following though all right so we're just gonna keep going and I'm just gonna make these all a little bit different not that big of a deal yeah look here down a little bit now say all right that'll work but the biggest thing is making sure that you have these straight lines on this ruler so as long as that's following on that same diagonal we should be fine you're good yeah that'll there bring it over do a little bit sort of there and come up [Applause] come down and make our way all the way - all righty Linda so I finished off drawing out and stitching out all the straight lines across the other side so for here I'm just gonna be putting a simple ribbon candy Oh perfect every other one that was though it a little bit so I've got this and I'm using this template just to give me a straight line to follow for the bottom piece of it because I have that open so I'll start with my straight line move that off to the side and then this ribbon candy it all the way up here follow this up the ditch nice to have that ruler handy right left all this all the way up to that top portion may be the ruler off and then start making my way so you keeping those lines perpendicular to your lines that you've already stitched right perfect yeah follow that follow that all the way it looks so good cuz that's just gonna pop up the areas that right yeah what a modern look yeah very modern follow those all the way up to there using my template to follow up the ditch move it if I need to all the way up to this portion take it off to the side here and let's put in that ribbon candy I would think that the point was to make sure that the ribbon candy is perpendicular to those lines because you could get real mixed up oh yeah I'm going diagonally and all right unless that's what you want it to do yeah that's already looking fantastic back and forth and this would be something you could easily do in constant mm-hmm as opposed to having that regulator because you're here because that's all right no it doesn't bother me I'll take that skipping that Center one following here going back and forth that's great able to do it one-handed like you I love that you know not everybody likes feathers uh-huh and leathers and flowers and you know right bold look and very different so the the ones next to it in the dark area cuz you're using you're doing the dark area would look so dramatic right yeah which would be a little different from that initial thought that we have for yours mm-hmm take it here rolling around for this one we're actually gonna stop right there there you go that's like no just giving it a little bit of texture and it kind of moves that way out the triangle okay all right so then I've just kind of taken the ruler and I've just stitched right across this top piece here to get to this other section and for this side just to get since it's a sampler to give you a couple different ideas we're kind of just looking at ignoring the P thing in general yeah and is throwing in some swirls okay swirls that kind of build on each other so we'll just kind of start in here and I am in constant speed I've moved a constant for this section so we're gonna come in and I know you've had it up a little bit so I might have to slow it down the second I get going so we'll see and here we go yeah not too bad swirling it yeah foxy bad right cuz I'm just coming in leaving plenty of room to make my way out trying to do an echo yeah maybe come into more of this section do that that's such a good one for a beginner right yeah and this is kind of switching it out to be where some of these would be a little have some peacock ones or there's more of that teardrop builds a little entry yeah and then some of them can just go into being a swirl if you can just build as many echoes on that as you would like you know whatever look you want to give it come back and fill in certain sections if you need to so interesting but definitely something that anybody can do you know just kind of playing around yeah you can do it on paper and then you just do a little practicing and you're good at it right yeah for sure could even do more oh let's see this section a little bit more open and it was both pastors for sure no yeah yeah it depends on how dense the rest of the clothing is on the quilt we really have to be careful about that you know not having big areas in the little areas that's it this starts to cool right right yeah I like that contrast [Applause] I think filters are always like making sure they don't get cornered yeah oh what's my plan they definitely being okay with kind of ignoring that piecing line will definitely help you work your way through this and I'll stop right there super well I can see that you are going back to your Statler yeah I've got it I've got to have a computerised fix a little fit yeah yeah free free hands gotten yeah so what I've kind of done here is I took a chalk pencil and I've marked out these this log cabin block as if it were just triangles and X yeah so if you don't have a styler you can place these patterns in as if they were just triangle pieces and what that gives you the ability to do is just you know kind of mark that off with your boundaries but for me I'm gonna be using draw a pattern and just click out points along this way all right okay let's see that all righty okay Linda so I'm gonna be using one of your point-to-point triangles okay I may be using the LT 2236 Dakota's triangle okay so I'm gonna have that pattern selected and the first thing that I want to do is I do want to go ahead and draw a boundary just around the outer piece of the block so I'm just gonna start clicking and you can have as many points clicked as you want in a boundary normally on bigger blocks you want to do you know a couple more as you go or if you have same lines that you can hit that's better too because things aren't perfect no no which is you know something we can you know take into account when we're free-handing we can see that but whenever we're setting it up in the computer we have to set it up you know as best as we can because that's how it's gonna go out so I'm gonna come around and finish this and once I get to that last point I can exit my drawing and then what I'm going to do is I want to go into draw pattern okay you're gonna draw a pattern oh yeah with the point-to-point pattern patterns we function with the head of the machine what I'm gonna do is I want to click the four outer points so and I'm going to be doing that counterclockwise counterclockwise okay because direction does matter what you're thinking without yeah so I'm gonna start here at the bottom left and I'll click a point here come all the way across this section on this right hand side and click a point here come up to the top right click a point there top left click a point here and then I will have to return back to the bottom left and click a point there as well now you have to return you can just thanks it out for this instance yeah okay so much like that point and then I'm gonna close my drawing and exit my drawing but since we're already here at the machine this is another point that we would want to make sure we can find that direct center because if we need to make any adjustments with those patterns we want to make sure that it's going off the center of the block yeah that's in a white square right and so it's like I don't know where that's gonna be so I can go into draw boundary and I can just make myself a little X right here okay and so then on the computer screen I'll have that X all right and I can point everything to that okay so I'm gonna mode over to draw boundary and with the head of the Machine I can just click these points I'm just I'm making this in an X fashion down here over and then I can close that and exit and if you notice on the computer screen you can see that that little X point mm-hmm isn't in relation to those patterns at all that's okay that means the block has shifted a little bit as we've been quilting through okay so we want to fix that on the screen with our handles to make sure that everything lines up perfectly okay okay so I'm zooming in a little bit further and Linda if we see these points we can really tell now they're not anywhere near that Center marker so what I want to do is I can click on these patterns individually and if I double left-click I can go through my handles until I get to my universal handles now these are where I have three of them in one and I'm gonna use my gray handle here and then just kind of maneuver that point right exactly where it needs to be so I'm going to do that to all four of these triangles that's gonna shift everything into alignment into the center just like that now when i zoom out and I take a look you can see that everything's flowing right to that Center just the way we want it to be and you can even see it has that kind of secondary design here between these petals so if you wanted to you could also go in and maybe freehand some feathers in there if you would like of course all right Linda so let's go over to start quilting and have our machine move to its starting point pull up my bobbin thread and then we're gonna let it tie off and it's gonna start sketching I know I can see that the square next to that pattern would make a really cool design as well for sure especially on a log cabin right yeah yeah the way they would all mesh together at the end they would look basically I'd block some point yeah I kind of know how they all fall out together not very cool very cool so then you could also like we were talking about earlier if you didn't have the draw pattern function aid and have a Statler which is perfectly okay you could still set these up as individual triangles and then just make sure that if you need to manipulate those points that you didn't manipulate them off the center right before you start oh yeah that's right yeah right in the ditch house check in my fabric here real quick just to double-check I saw it going I was like oh all right coming here to that point yeah it's off to the next section all right Linda look at all these just pop right there to that Center right I would never have chosen that design but that I mean you know I'll turn that design I wish I could do a log cabin with that now right because I would love to see what the alternate design would be what it is your pattern so you've got it you're good to go yes thank you it's coming here to tie off and then we can pull up our threads and let's take a look at what it looks like okay so I'm gonna start on this one and again I'm going to come through with that serpentine root between the lights and darts and I'm gonna leave that square on the lights they're cars you could you know make that decision where you're gonna put that or you can divide it yeah right I'm gonna have it there so okay so now I'm going to go around and you go down to the bottom come around are gonna really speed this up so we go down to the bottom come around you want to swing in and come around about the same each time go to the bottom come around you know I left enough space at the top to get myself out come around and up to the top we'll put one in here we know we have to get out and this I would have already stabilized this right where you know that right little stitch in the ditch yeah because I just don't do well without stabilizing them but we're kind of pressed for time so so I'm gonna put that in there now just so you know I mean you could do this in each thing right you could come along and great way to practice your freehand skills right do something different in each one of those right okay but I'm going to put a feather in this area okay and then I'm gonna do something fun in this area okay for I'm just winging this so I like that enjoy okay all right hand me a pencil try pencil just so that I can kind of get this curve the same I'm just gonna kind of come over here and I could certainly use a template for that you know kind of end it right at the end of that and end that right there at the end of that just that's all that's all I need so then I'm gonna start coming over here like this I'll make a heart here hey I like hearts set up a thank you you're doing a great job thank you so good for me okay all right that's the top okay no I left areas here cuz I want to echo it okay so I knew that ahead of time all right I believe that thought ahead hey hey that's what I was thinking so okay so I'm just I'm ignoring the PC okay okay I think I will put a little curl in here like that gotcha yeah I'm gonna come out here like this here so I'm gonna come down here yeah match my little are all right okay here and here and now I'm going to echo so you're doing deep that goes I'm doing deep at all sir yes so I can really swing out on these fill up some of that space I might even I can reverse and come back like this a very nice white area there so where we fill in that space I like that love it Cory you know when I looked at these polka dots I was really inspired okay yeah I love this fabric yeah and so I decided well let's just continue that so I'm gonna go around I am in a constant right now and I'm using my templates I'm just gonna go around this one I am going to try to do all the way around see if I start about five o'clock here mm-hmm and then do I have a clamp on that side yeah I need another one we got two I'm just starting that okay so I'm gonna see if I can do it all the way around let's try it come on here we go now that we have clamps on you really have to have your clamps on good because otherwise you're pushing too hard on there they might not be perfect circles because Cory's sitting next to me but other than that they're gonna be great okay all right all right [Laughter] you just gotta know this is so much fun we're you're having fun yes well this is what people run into at home really yeah I mean they don't have a jokester with them you know that's right but that one is really good that one is good okay yes I'm going to do some little [Music] swirls around these circles here and then I'm gonna go around the circles again because you can hardly believe that they're not perfect but they're not have any idea what she's doing yeah okay now I'm gonna go around and I'll have to do is just hang on to the machine because it wants to go around these lots of times because this is going to raise these right up okay okay and then I'm just gonna come out and I'm going to meander til they get over to the next one okay and I better finish meandering in that area there we go so it's that same thing you don't want to get cornered you want to make sure you get everything done right right trying to use one hand so this is just going to make the circle stick out a little bit more right than it would normally over here and the nice thing is you can come out of the circle wherever you want right it's not that bad to stay on that circle you know we just try what are you free and you really have to get over yourself as far as being perfect yeah I'm still working on that I know it's the same for all computerized owners because you know they just are so used to doing perfect oh I know we'll just go over the top of it later all right I'm okay with that so we just are meandering let's ditch in the get back over here you see I need to just slow down yeah they're here so they go it's how to beat the machine they're doing what I'm doing so I'll just turn it up oh okay well there you go that's the machine $2,000 so doing the swirls around these for her this might be too fancy for modern clothing you know because I don't know maybe they don't do that much clothing it's more minimal more line some more this multiple stitch thing though is cool yeah not like a cause if you make mistake you just go over it again awesome there there we go so for this one you're really trapped in this would you go around would you find their way into the circle and make another loop around okay stitch around it got necessarily I knew you were gonna find your way out no I was just trying to see another way out of the corner I'm trying to adapt Linda that's what we do we gotta with that very good so am I one handed adapter there you go yep now it's a party this variegated thread is very pretty but yes you can find your way in and out of those circles and go over them again as many times as you want right so all over the quilt in the dark areas would be all of these circles right pretty cool and you know all the rules for meandering no crossing no points and no pattern no pattern I paid attention you did Oh wanting some Eminem's but I'll take an egg there we go so that would be pretty fantastic on the quilt yeah it's gonna be like sort of like the lines that you did I mean it's gonna really stand out right and I love the feather yeah and that cut down the work I had to do by going around in the outside yeah so just so many fun ideas to do on these that was super fun I love that and there's a lot of ideas there for different parts of culture not just for a turn down all over the place so thank you for watching we'll see you next time

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Length: 34min 22sec (2062 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 08 2020