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Courthouse Steps vs Log cabin
I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done
courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply |
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Courthouse steps has the light and dark alternating instead of adjacent. So
if you match up light and dark sides in the finished layout, you get diamond sort of shapes. It doesn't necessarily need more planning, unless you have some plan to make your diamonds in different colors, instead of just light/dark. It looks great in scraps! My favorite kind of quilt! I did make one once with carefully planned color areas, and it wasn't that hard. You just need a diagram so you know which colors go where. Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap "frood" wrote in message om... I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply |
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:00:29 +0200, "Roberta Zollner"
wrote: Courthouse steps has the light and dark alternating instead of adjacent. So if you match up light and dark sides in the finished layout, you get diamond sort of shapes. It doesn't necessarily need more planning, unless you have some plan to make your diamonds in different colors, instead of just light/dark. It looks great in scraps! My favorite kind of quilt! I did make one once with carefully planned color areas, and it wasn't that hard. You just need a diagram so you know which colors go where. Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap One of the things you can do with Court house is use four different colors. Nice effect, and like Roberta says, you can see four diamonds when you finish. There is also a Court House Mania design where you start with a large center square and add random width strips, cut into four quarters and reassemble with various designs. Anna Belle in Palm Bay (carefully watching Isabel) "frood" wrote in message . com... I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? |
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Susan Druding (http://quilting.about.com) is featuring the log cabin block on
her home page. Page 5 of the series (http://quilting.about.com/library/0l..._logcabin5.htm) is all about the courthouse step block. This is one of my favorite sites: it's tied with Quilter's Cache. |
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There is a CS quilt on my webpage:
http://home1.gte.net/res0yk6g/taria/quilts.htm about 2/3 of the way down. I won the blocks in a block of the month drawing at my guild. Everyone was given the muslin background and a center square of red. Photo appears darker than the quilt but it is really scrappy. The log cabin I want to do is the one with the stars in the corner. If you want to play with design I think a traditional LC would be more fun. Taria frood wrote: I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply -- Please visit my web page at: http://home1.gte.net/res0yk6g/taria/index.htm See my Siberian Cat, Lilly, at: http://home1.gte.net/res0yk6g/lillypage/lillycat.htm |
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OK, based on what I've seen so far (thanks, everyone!), I don't think CS is
right for the project I have in mind. It's just that the name I came up with was so cool.... I was thinking of doing CS with Halloween prints, and calling it Sleepy Hollow Courthouse. See, isn't that a great name? (when I was an English major in school, I was always coming up with titles, then trying to write stories to go with them. Sometimes the title was great, but then no story... ) However, I have lots and lots of different prints, and not a lot of any particular prints, so it would end up being very scrappy, and I don't really want that look. I may file this idea away for future. As for Log Cabin, I have plans for a Halloween one of those, too - Haunted Cabin - and I want to do them wonky - on an angle. That is, make the blocks, then cut them all with my square ruler at an angle. I'm still deciding if I want black center blocks, or orange. I have a really cute black print with little ghosts that would work, but I only have about an FE of that. Oh, anybody know how to say "quilt" in Spanish? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "taria" wrote in message ... There is a CS quilt on my webpage: http://home1.gte.net/res0yk6g/taria/quilts.htm about 2/3 of the way down. I won the blocks in a block of the month drawing at my guild. Everyone was given the muslin background and a center square of red. Photo appears darker than the quilt but it is really scrappy. The log cabin I want to do is the one with the stars in the corner. If you want to play with design I think a traditional LC would be more fun. Taria frood wrote: I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply -- Please visit my web page at: http://home1.gte.net/res0yk6g/taria/index.htm See my Siberian Cat, Lilly, at: http://home1.gte.net/res0yk6g/lillypage/lillycat.htm |
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Hullo Wendy
I was just about to launch into a reply - thought I should read the other answers! The only thing I would like to add is that, even if Courthouse Steps isn't right for this project, it is a very useful block in the Log Cabin stable, because it can be made completely symmetrical - seams and all! Log cabin can't. So, when you need symmetry, it might be just right. It doesn't *have* to be regular and carefully laid out. I'm sure it could be done with irregular logs as well - perhaps I'll have a look at that? could be fun. .. .. In article , frood writes I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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The best way to make it scrappy or random is to make up a bunch
of blocks with all your Batik strips, then send them to me. I will put them together in random placement and send you a picture. PAT in VA/USA ... you have my address! frood wrote: I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? |
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oooo that was very good Pat!
Shona learning in NZ "Pat in Virginia" wrote in message ... The best way to make it scrappy or random is to make up a bunch of blocks with all your Batik strips, then send them to me. I will put them together in random placement and send you a picture. PAT in VA/USA ... you have my address! frood wrote: I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? |
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I did see a scrappy Batik CS in that Australian magazine - Australian
Patchwork & Quilting, I think. It was really beautiful. Sure, I'll send you a picture if I ever do it. No problem. -- Wendy, who knows how to read creatively http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "Pat in Virginia" wrote in message ... The best way to make it scrappy or random is to make up a bunch of blocks with all your Batik strips, then send them to me. I will put them together in random placement and send you a picture. PAT in VA/USA ... you have my address! frood wrote: I know these blocks are assembled in a similar fashion, but I haven't done courthouse steps yet. Does it involve more planning for light/dark/color placement? With LC, I can do half dark/half light blocks, then play with the arrangement. The only CS blocks I've seen are very structured, with colors or values from each block lining up with the neighboring blocks. How does it look scrappy/random? |
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