"Log Cabin" variation

At the quilting bee they had these different materials that they sold, and I bought me some corduroy. ’Long at that time, it was cheap and it was heavy. You didn’t need to put much batting in it to keep warm. They used to put cotton from the field inside quilts, and it taken a lot of them quilts to keep you warm. You didn’t need too much corduroy on the bed to do the job. I had to use a sewing machine on the corduroy, else you couldn’t sew it so good.

Ma Willie Abrams was my auntie. She was real good at making quilts, but she make hers to satisfy her. I made mine the way to satisfy me. Ma Willie was making a quilt one time, and I say, "Ma Willie, I want to learn from you," and she say, "I’m sewing you a block and giving it to you, and I want you to make a quilt from it." It was this "Crosscut Saw" block. Sometimes you sit down and be thinking you going to put it this way, according to how you feel about it. You might know how somebody else do it, but you tell yourself, I’m going to do it different. When you sit, you don’t know how it going to come out, and you don’t think it will come out like that. I made that quilt out of corduroy. I just put it my way; I didn’t put it the way the pattern went.

I go by the guideline, If it don’t look good, if it don’t make sense to me, it ain’t going to make sense.