Design choices - log cabin quilt layout

I've made some more blocks for my pastel scraps log cabin quilt and they're all now cut to size (7 inch squares) - but the next bit is trying to decide the layout and design.  The log cabin blocks have whites and pale strips on two sides, and colours on the other two, giving me a load of layout options that give the quilt different effects.  Here they are side by side to try and make deciding between them easier:

1. Straight setting;  2. Pinwheels;  3. Straight furrows; 

        

4. Chevron;  5. Barn raising;  6. Streak of Lightning;

          

7. Log cabin star;  8. Sunshine and shadows;  9. Shadows and lightning.

        

Suggestions on a postcard please!


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In progress - pastel scraps log cabin quilt

I woke up really early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep for thinking about my sewing Sunday ahead - so I got up and started playing in my studio. I hadn't planned to start a new quilt (I was intending to actually finish some of the several nearly-finished ones that need backing) but began rummaging through some scraps and before I knew it I'd made a couple of these log cabin blocks. I was on a roll, so just kept going! I'm not sure where this will end up - either I'll make a load more and sew them into this light/dark diagonal colourway, or I might mix them up with some half square triangles (I spotted this quilt by April Two Eighty on Pinterest and am quite inspired to do something similar...) I'll keep you posted!

In progress - colourful pinwheel quilt

As I've mentioned, I recently discovered how easy it is to make quarter-square triangles and half-square triangles. This quilt was the result - I used a charm pack of 5inch square shot cotton plains, and some scrap pieces of Kaffe Fassett shot cotton stripes from my fabric stash. The colours are just wonderful I think! Just need to quilt it now - I'm hoping to spend a happy afternoon soon with my mum using her amazing long armed quilting frame. I'll post the results once it's finished...

In progress - Indigo baby quilt

I bought a stash of Indigo patterned fat quarters and white-on-white printed fabrics last time I went to a big quilt show. I cut some of it up into 2inch and 2.5inch squares, and then ran out of steam. But I've recently discovered how to make quarter-square-triangle blocks, and so I used up some of the larger squares to for this, and turned it into Ohio Stars. I still need to back it, but I'm planning to sew buttons on as laid out here to quilt it simply.

Another baby-sized quilt, but as I (stupidly, as always!) didn't wash the fabric before I got carried away starting, and as it's indigo it will inevitably run, this of course won't be suitable for a baby as I don't think you'd ever be able to wash it without it ruining! So it will have to become a wall quilt instead. Ah well...

In progress - purple stripes quilt

I'm in the middle of making this quilt using lots of purply Kaffe Fassett shot cotton stripey fabrics - the first time I've ever made something to 'match our sofa', a phrase I used to scoff at when I heard people choosing to buy paintings when I worked in an art gallery. A sign of growing up or selling out?

In progress - pink baby quilt

This is another quilt that needs backing - a baby quilt made of some old cushion covers I'd originally made from a charm pack of pink patterned fabrics. I cut the cushion covers up into random width diagonal strips and then sewed them together to make one higgledy-piggledy log cabin.

In progress - shirting scraps baby quilt

This is the front of a baby quilt I still need to finish. It's made with scraps left over from the wedding quilt I made for my friends Adam and Bex - vintage shirt fabrics from Worn and Washed.