Off-Center Log Cabin
Also known as: Off-Centre Log Cabin
A spiralling log cabin whose light logs are half the width of its dark logs, so the centre square sits off-centre toward the light corner; set together, the blocks suggest curves.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Grid Type
- log-cabin
- Piece Count
- 17
- Tags
- log-cabinbeginnertraditional
- Also appears in
- Log Cabin
Construction Tips
Cut the light strips half as wide (finished) as the dark strips and keep the spiral turning the same way each round.
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Related Blocks
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.
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.
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.
Chevron Log Cabin
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.
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.
Half Square Triangle
One square cut corner to corner into a dark and a light triangle; the unit many pieced blocks are built from.
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