Thread: Card Trick Block...

Jan thank you so much for this. This is fabulous!!!

Originally Posted by Jan in VA

How about using NO triangles in each individual block, but then setting the blocks on point? That way you'd have only the side and corner triangles to deal with.

If you want a quick insruction sheet for the setting triangles I can send that to your regular email. PM me.

Jan in VA

I have also done Card Tricks like Jan. Mary Ellen Hopkins uses this method in her book 'It's Okay If You Sit On My Quilt'.

I had a heck of a time with the one I made for a sampler quilt. It is aptly named it is indeed "tricky" :)

I have that book (first one I ever bought many years ago), I'll check it out. Thanks.

Originally Posted by ewecansew

I have also done Card Tricks like Jan. Mary Ellen Hopkins uses this method in her book 'It's Okay If You Sit On My Quilt'.

Originally Posted by PiecesinMn

I have that book (first one I ever bought many years ago), I'll check it out. Thanks.

Originally Posted by ewecansew

I have also done Card Tricks like Jan. Mary Ellen Hopkins uses this method in her book 'It's Okay If You Sit On My Quilt'.

Me, too. It seemed very expensive ,at the time, and I waited for the bookstore to have a sale so I could afford it. I still refer to it often.

that was all so informative

That "cheating at cards" is a great name for a great technique. Thanks!
Nell

Originally Posted by ewecansew

I have also done Card Tricks like Jan. Mary Ellen Hopkins uses this method in her book 'It's Okay If You Sit On My Quilt'.

You gave me away, LOL! Yes, Mary Ellen Hopkins techniques all the way, including the setting triangles instructions I use.

She was a major factor in the strip piecing-speed piecing innovation that occured in quilting in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Her teaching methods, which were the first I learned, have served me so well inl my 30 years of quilting, that I rarely have come across a pattern that I can not draw/graph out/alter-in-size/or create in a some simpler way.

I adore her as a person, too.

Thank all of you for your kind responses to my first post under this topic.

Jan in VA