A Wow! Curved Log Cabin Quilt

At our July Charleston Modern Quilt Guild meeting members Kim McPeake and Rick Sanchez challenged us to make a “scrappy” quilt to donate to our ongoing work with organizations that manage foster children.

Their example was this WOW quilt featuring a curved log cabin block–that they swear is not hard. They made it together and also swear it only took a few meeting times to complete the top. Both Kim and Rick also have longarm quilting businesses, but Rick quilted this one.

How fun it was to see this charming and very different scrappy quilt! But Kim and Rick stressed that the challenge quilt tops did NOT have to be elaborate. In essence, they had a good time together working on this project.

There is a ruler used to make this block’s curved corner–made in solids by Kim and Rick. And there is a pattern. Here’s a link to both on the Sew Kind of Wonderful web site.

https://sewkindofwonderful.com/products/curvy-log-cabin-quilt-pattern-paper

In our Sit and Sew Saturday morning meeting last week, I shared my own quilt top for this challenge project–using Bonnie Hunter’s recent 2025 “Four Patch Fun” leader/ender block. There are all kinds of ways to set this block or groups of this block with sashing. And Bonnie used two color families, not all of them. (I can never resist COLOR, but I also think this top would be ok for girls or boys.)

And I shared many patterns that lend themselves to scrappy tops (or not) that are perfect for donation gifts. Scrappy log cabins are, for instance, a great choice and will use up scraps in your stash.

Here’s a link to Bonnie Hunter’s 2025 leader/ender project. Scroll down to find the print version.

2025-leader-ender-challenge-four-patch.html

I’m behind on donation quilts, so one goal for this fall’s work will be to create some donation quilts for my two quilt groups.