Choose your box
Every box includes your ticket to all live sessions. Prices are in Canadian dollars, before HST. Shipping is free on orders over $150, so both boxes ship free.
Add to your box
Add-ons ship free in the same box.
Pick a fabric kit
Pre-cut fabric for the pattern you choose. Pick your colourway right here, under the kit. Backing is not included.
About the retreat
Log Cabin Weekend is a virtual sewing retreat. You sew at home on Saturday and Sunday, January 16 and 17, 2027, and join live Zoom sessions for demos, tips and company. Your box is mailed ahead of time, with a playlist, cocoa, a mug and everything you need to start. A dashboard helps you follow along, and you can log in at different times for the demos.
The weekend covers strip sewing tips and an accurate 1/4 in seam, the variety of quilts made with log cabin blocks, a miniature log cabin, a log cabin cup cozy, kinusaiga, and a talk with Catherine-Marie Longtin, author of Log Cabin Quilt Blocks.
Schedule
Friday is an optional welcome night and is not recorded. Saturday and Sunday sessions are recorded for registrants.
Friday Jan 15
- 7:00 pm
- Welcome night: open your box, cocoa, playlist, weekend plan
Saturday Jan 16
- 10:00 am
- Strip sewing tips and an accurate 1/4 in seam
- 11:15 am
- Sew time
- 12:15 pm
- Lunch
- 1:15 pm
- The variety of log cabin quilts
- 2:30 pm
- Strip/Chain Piecing
- 3:45 pm
- Log cabin cup cozy sew-along
- 7:00 pm
- Evening drop-in, games and prizes
Sunday Jan 17
- 10:00 am
- Kinusaiga demo
- 11:30 am
- PFAFF session: floating stitch
- 12:30 pm
- Lunch
- 1:30 pm
- Author chat with Catherine-Marie Longtin
- 2:45 pm
- Show and tell, prize draw, wrap-up
Meet Catherine-Marie Longtin
Catherine-Marie Longtin is a Montreal-born French Canadian quilt-maker and textile artist now based in London. She learned to sew from her mother, then left a career in academia (a PhD in cognitive science) to return to her love of textiles and colour. Since 2016 she has had a studio in Camberwell, South East London, where she takes commissions, sells quilts and artworks, and teaches patchwork classes online and in person. Her work is inspired by artists such as Josef and Anni Albers, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Nicolas de Staël and Paul Klee.
Join our Sunday author chat about her book, Log Cabin Quilt Blocks: 100 Colour and Pattern Variations (Batsford), which is available as an add-on.
Log Cabin Quilt Blocks, 100 colour and pattern variations. Add it to your order below.
Kits and colourways
You choose your colourway right on this page, under the kit you pick.
Meadow colourways
The Meadow kit comes in six bird colourways. Tap one to see it larger.
Carpenter's Cabin colourways
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Country Retreat colourways
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Geese in the Cabin colourways
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Puzzlement Log Cabin colourways
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Photos for the remaining colourways, including Rising Star, are on their way.