log cabin at the cabin

and just like that, my blogging streak is over. i've not been quilting, either. early mornings have become workout time and all the other things have taken over what's left in the day thereafter. i was spending a whole lot of time with my grandchildren until my daughter up and took them to my cabin several hours away for the whole month of august. how dare she.

but this last weekend we decided to visit our own cabin ourselves and got to see the grandkiddos. i brought along handwork and actually pulled it out a few times. my christmas liberty log cabin was the easiest pick. i'm not as opposed to its christmas colors and cheer now as i was in the spring by the beach. late summer and at the cabin, i can stomach a bit of christmas. besides, if i want to have it a finish for this coming christmas, now would be the time to start.

i'm shadowing the outer edges of each square in the blocks and will add a stich in the middle of each strip as well. it's actually rather hard to see the handquilting on the print fabrics. that's fine. i haven't decide yet if i'll do any stitching in the green sashing areas. i'm could do it either in white or green, so it doesn't have to stand out. undecided. i'll do the blocks first and make that call later. as d3 says, "we'll burn that bridge when we get there."

while i was working on this, d1 was looking at the fabrics in the quilt and asked if there were christmas fabrics in it or not. basically, no - these are not christmas fabrics. there are one or two that are christmas versions of classic tana lawn prints, like the red "wiltshire" print above, and a "betsy" that has stars added to it, but the rest are just red and green prints i put together. add the dark green sashing and the bright red hearth centers to the blocks, and voila - it looks like christmas, which will be here before we know it.

fingers crossed i find more time to stitch on these blocks.