Quilt Notes: According to Nancy Cabot's 1930's Chicago Tribune column, the classic LOG CABIN design is one of the oldest, "in quiltdom." Also called WHITE HOUSE STEPS (see Ladies Art Company Catalogue #221) and compare with STRAIGHT FURROW (Cabot). This version, with the smaller center (usually twice the size) is illustrated in the QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY by Rhoda Ochser Goldberg, 1988, with two traditional variations. In quilt nomenclature, the unusually long rectangles are referred to as the "logs" of the pattern.

There are innumerable other settings used to assemble log cabin blocks into a full quilt — producing very different over-all patterns. See the variation in the Ladies Art Company Catalogue (#374), for instance, which sets four of the these blocks together (Nancy Cabot used the same design, but rotated each block as if around a circle). Online see McCalls and other sites for free cutting and piecing instructions.

More illusions of sunlight and shadow, suggesting receding space, at this site, would includeLEFT AND RIGHT and SHIFTING CUBES, also WONDER OF EGYPT and the radiant STAR AND BOX, just to name a few — have a look at the magnificent 3D effect in THE COLUMBIA, and which includes a long list of actual 3D quilt patterns (all of them somehow incredibly mysterious and fascinating!!).