Chevron Log Cabin
Also known as: Chevron
Logs added on two sides of a corner square, each round a single fabric, so the block shows nested L-shaped chevrons alternating dark and light.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Grid Type
- log-cabin
- Piece Count
- 11
- Tags
- log-cabinbeginnertraditional
- Also appears in
- Log Cabin
Construction Tips
Both logs of a round are cut from the same fabric; the second log of each round covers the end of the first.
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Related Blocks
Off-Center Log Cabin
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Half Log Cabin
A log cabin built out from a corner square instead of a centre, adding logs on only two sides; the logs on one side are light and the logs on the other are dark.
Log Cabin
A centre square wrapped in five rounds of logs that spiral around it, one log per side in turn; the logs on two adjacent sides are light and the other two are dark, so the block divides into light and dark halves along a diagonal.
Courthouse Steps
A log cabin variation built in opposite pairs: each round adds matching light logs above and below, then dark logs on both sides, so light steps stack up and down from the centre and dark steps run left and right.
Pineapple
A log cabin variation in which rounds of logs alternate between the sides and the corners of the growing centre, each log trimmed at 45 degrees; the dark corner logs and corner triangles form a broad X of blades radiating from the centre square.
Double Wrench
A five-patch drafting of the churn-dash idea: large half-square triangle units in the corners, a two-square bar at the middle of each side with the dark square towards the centre, and a light centre square.
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