Being a joiner-inner, but not joining crochet squares yet

I've got so much to tell you!  Nothing exciting, just blog life!  First of all, remember my Rule Britannia cushion?  A friend asked if she could buy one from me, wahoo!

OK, on to the joining in that I've been doing.  I signed up for the We Can Do It! Sampler over at Sewn.

The first week's block was a log cabin.  It had to be easier than the half square triangles I've been attempting?  (Thanks ladies for your lovely helpful hints about HSTs, I didn't realise it was so fraught with difficulties and just went blundering in as usual).  Now, I'm not making a quilt from these blocks, I just can't justify the expense in fabric and don't have enough coordinating fabrics, so I'm using fabric from my stash and making... stuff!  Any suggestions would be greatly received.

I started out by laying out some fabrics, I chose a cute little bunny for the middle and worked around that, trying to do the light and dark values as suggested.

Here's my fabrics:

There are a couple of bits of charm square in there, and a piece of layer cake and some scraps and some parts of fat quarters.

Now, we were supposed to be focusing on seam allowance.  I duly measured my first two strips and they all lined up and were the correct size.  Then I got complacent.  And ended up with this:

Clearly it's a wonky log cabin block, on purpose of course!  I really don't know what went wrong but when I measured it at the end it range from 11 inches to 12 inches!  Some trimming later and the addition of a border...

Ta da! It's a cushion!  The fabric round the edges and on the back is actually a tea towel, bought 5 for £3.50 (varying styles) from Asda.  Bargain.

I look forward to next week's challenge.  If you're new to quilting, or just fancy giving it a go without any huge pressure, come and join in.

That's not the only joining in I'm doing.  I've also signed up for

Over at Amy's Creative Side.  I'm planning on trying to finish my elephant ballerina cross stitch.  I'm not sure how likely that is as I've only got until Monday!

And finally, I've been a fan of 52 Crafts in 52 Weeks since I discovered it last year.  She's now completed her challenge and is inviting us to join in for the next 52 years.  You can do either a challenge a week, or a challenge a month, or just dip in and out as you like.  It starts on July 1st with printing.

But you know what I haven't been joining?  These crochet squares.

They're destined to be a cushion... I'm planning on sashing in white but have no idea how you crochet sashing so that should be interesting!