Hello, friends! It’s week four of the Heart of the Home Sew Along and today I’m sharing some tips for the house blocks and the log cabin strips. I’ll let you take a look at a little bit of my process as I made the first quilt and as I’m making my second version. I hope you’ll find some helpful ideas today as you are sewing along.

Heart of the Home Sew Along: Houses and Log Cabin Strips
Tips for the House Blocks
The house blocks might be my favorites (but don’t tell the stars and hearts, lol). There is just something about a tiny house as the center of a log cabin block that has my heart! Below you’ll find a few tips for making the house centers:
- First, have fun with color as you make the houses. I like to make sure there is plenty of contrast between the house top, roof, house sides, and door on each of my house blocks.
- Make sure your ¼″ seam is right on for these blocks as you will need them to finish true to size to give your log cabin block an accurate start.
- Use your favorite method to make the flying geese units for the house roofs. I did size my pieces up from the pattern directions and used a Bloc Loc Flying Geese Ruler as I shared in my previous post with tips for the stars and hearts.
Tips for the Log Cabin Strips
I like to cut all of my strips before I start sewing. Having the strips cut to the exact size also helps make sure the quilt block is going together accurately.
I first cut all of my light strips in all of the needed sizes and put them into piles making sure to vary the prints in each pile. After I had all of my light strip set piles ready, I started working on my colored strip sets. I also put those into groups making sure to vary the colors and prints in each set. You can see the light and colored strip set piles in the photos above.
When I’m ready to make a block, I simply grab a light strip set pile and a colored strip set pile and start sewing. Additionally, you can match center units to piles and chain piece everything together, making sure to keep all of the piles and blocks in order.
More Heart of the Home Sew Along Helps
I can’t wait to finish up my remaining blocks. And I’ll share another post on this quilt after my wall hanging is finished up and back from the quilter. (I can’t wait to see it all come together). If you’re just learning about this quilt and sew along, look at these previous posts for more information to help you get started:
- Heart of the Home Log Cabin Quilt: Introduction
- Heart of the Home Sew Along: Fabrics, Stars, and Hearts
Thanks so much for stopping by for today’s post for the Heart of the Home Sew-Along.
Happy quilting!
Cathy says
What is the pad the strips are piled
Up
On made
Of?
sherri McConnell says
It’s a project design board. One I purchased at Fat Quarter Shop and the other one I made–simple batting on a foam core board with a binding hot-glued on!
Kelly Davis says
Hi Sherri,
This may be too much to ask, or maybe I can try to figure it out myself, but would you be able to share the size the log cabin block should measure after each round?
Thank you!
Kelly
sherri McConnell says
That information is in the magazine–you’ll know by the strip size what size the block should be. Thank you!
marilyn says
im looking for the free pattern to make the pillow. can you post a link on FB sew along please. Thanks