Originally Posted by marta
You mentioned stack and whack. Would you share with me how to do that technique? A friend made one,and I helped her hand quilt it. Wanted to see it upon completion, but time got away and I didn't get to her house before it was sent to her sister.
Love the look of it!
Marta
Just a pm is fine.
Marta, a stack and whack is where you cut 6 or 8 pieces of fabric (depending on your pattern), stack them matching the design by putting pins through all the layers at a distinctive part of the design, say maybe the center of a flower or a tip of a leaf. When all the layers are stacked, perfectly matching, you cut whatever shape you are using (sometimes a diamond for a star, or a triangle, etc.) and then arrange each stack of matching fabric into the kaleidoscope design, star, pinwheel, whatever... then add the background for that block. There are several different patterns for stack and whack quilts. I like the 8 pointed stars made with this method.