Stack the Deck Quilt
#41
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i have made this with red prints, cream and brown. It turned out great. It was so easy and quick to make. There are dfferent directions but I remember I started with quite a large square (16" I am thinking). Move one to the bottom each time. The really fun part is then twisting and turning the resulting blocks. It is hard to see they are all cut the same.
#42
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Here are my versions (from a previous post) - not Stack the Deck but another similar method:
Link:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...ml#post3758555
And I use this method often for backgrounds - I find it's way more interesting and effective than a solid or big patches.
This was a group quilt my bee did for one our member's 2nd baby - I asked each to make a bright star - any color - as long as the background was a really, really dark fabric - black, blue, purple, green - I didn't care. Just dark.
Then I made all the Slice & Dice/Mince blocks to be used for background.
And in different fabric combos.
I chopped off some of the corners of the blocks so they would meld in better with the background. (I'm not a big fan of straight grid settings.)
If you notice, the outside edges of the quilt are even darker.
That's because for those blocks I eliminated all the lighter darker fabrics (if that makes any sense) and only used the darkest of the dark.
It's a very versatile and useful technique.
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Link:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...ml#post3758555
And I use this method often for backgrounds - I find it's way more interesting and effective than a solid or big patches.
This was a group quilt my bee did for one our member's 2nd baby - I asked each to make a bright star - any color - as long as the background was a really, really dark fabric - black, blue, purple, green - I didn't care. Just dark.
Then I made all the Slice & Dice/Mince blocks to be used for background.
And in different fabric combos.
I chopped off some of the corners of the blocks so they would meld in better with the background. (I'm not a big fan of straight grid settings.)
If you notice, the outside edges of the quilt are even darker.
That's because for those blocks I eliminated all the lighter darker fabrics (if that makes any sense) and only used the darkest of the dark.
It's a very versatile and useful technique.
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Last edited by MTS; 11-09-2011 at 09:12 AM.
#44
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There are earlier versions of the technique that were, in fact, called Stack and Whack, and NOT in reference to Bethany Reynolds Kaleidoscope cutting method.
So it could be a case of when someone was introduced to the technique as to which moniker is used.
So it could be a case of when someone was introduced to the technique as to which moniker is used.
#45
Here`s one called magic tiles like one i made
you stack and rearange
http://outtolunchquilts.blogspot.com...ials-list.html
Gale
you stack and rearange
http://outtolunchquilts.blogspot.com...ials-list.html
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