I made this quilt for my husband to use as a throw (it measures 45 1/4″ x 50 1/4″). It took me a long time to come up with what I wanted to make for him, but I knew it had to have purple in it, since that’s his favorite color! I finally settled on this Log Cabin variation, giving a woven effect; the layout for it was sent to me by another quilter online. I then translated that layout into a QuiltPro pattern to make my life easier. The quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted, and I finished it in January of 2000.
I used yellow for the center of each log cabin square, just to brighten things up a bit. Since Mike loves to garden, I machine quilted the names of his various crops into the white borders. This includes chiles, tomatoes, peaches, and lots of other fruits and vegetables. The logs in the pattern represent the logs he used for his square foot gardening, and there are lizards quilted into some of the blocks; they’re to keep the insects away! Even the back of the quilt is garden-themed, as it’s a vegetable and garden-tool print.