Book Review - Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin

It is not often that I buy a book just because I like the cover designs, but I just had to have "Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin" without even reading a review or blurb! I have been mightily pleased with the entire content...It is full of really attractive log cabin designs with a new angle of triangles and diamonds. There is a vast variety of distinct, visually pleasing projects (over 30) which offer varying degrees of difficulty and challenge for the quilter, all pictured throughout in glorious colour. The authors, Sara Nephew and Marci Baker, both give advice and preferred methods throughout the book, so often there will be two techniques to choose from. It shows that there are many ways to achieve the same effect, something that we sometimes forget as we get bound up in the ‘rules’! Essential to complete these patterns is a 10 inch 60 degree triangle ruler, along with rotary cutter, mat and straight quilter’s ruler. Comprehensive cutting lessons are given, so there is no need to fear the shape cutting requirements! Even better is the common sense simple approach – the book is limited to one size of triangle and one size of diamond, so all the blocks presented in the book are the same size, and interchangeable. I have been poring over this book, trying to decide which pattern to sew first!