Berry Hearths in Moss

Log Cabin blocks, seven across and eight down, sit edge to edge so the light and dark halves can run. Turn every other cabin a quarter turn and the buttercream logs meet, making a slow zigzag down the quilt. It sews up at 95 by 107 inches, covering a queen mattress and hanging a little at the sides.

Each twelve-inch cabin starts with a hearth square — deep berry on half the blocks, faded berry on the rest — then three rounds of logs. Buttercream builds the two light sides; quiet moss builds the two dark ones. Work around the square, adding one strip at a time. None of these seams run on the bias, so press after each log without stretching the edges.

A two-inch quiet-moss inner border sits next to the last logs. A three-and-a-half-inch dusty-rose outer border carries that rose out to the edge.

It suits a maker who likes sewing in strips and watching a block grow from the middle, and it is meant for a queen bed slept in every night. You get yardage, the cuts for both hearth colours and both borders, the order for sewing the logs, and a seven-by-eight diagram of which way each cabin faces.