Newbie question - Is a card trick a traditional block?
01-11-2013, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by BellaBoo
It's a newer design than most traditional blocks. I read an article about it some years ago and the designer wanted to copyright it but I don't remember much else.
As someone else said---------it's been around longer than me and I'm pushing 66 real hard.
Not sure why you'd date it on the newer end.
01-11-2013, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by BellaBoo
It's a newer design than most traditional blocks. I read an article about it some years ago and the designer wanted to copyright it but I don't remember much else.
01-11-2013, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ghostrider
Found elsewhere on the web (can't post a link to another forum):
"Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns says that Card Trick was designed in the 1970s by Gutcheon in McCall's. Beth and Jeffrey Gutcheon were quilt book authors back then (and might still be for all I know) and McCall's magazine has been publishing all kinds of patterns and books forever."
and
"Jeff Gutcheon did design the card trick block back in the 70's. He and Beth (who also wrote The Perfect patchwork Primer, and is now a distinguished and successful fiction writer) were WAY ahead of their time. Their Quilt Design Workbook was by far the most innovative and influential book on contemporary quilting. Things like chain piecing, and new designs such as card trick and many other features were considered great leaps of quilting in a day where all you could find were ditsy calicos. The book still holds up today. Get a hold of a copy (library, ebay, quilt guild library) and you will be quite amazed. They also feature the work of other celebrity quilters of the 70's such as Molly Upton."
ETA: Just FYI, the Faux Card Trick block was designed by Anita Grossman Solomon. She confirms that Gutcheon designed Card Trick.
"Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns says that Card Trick was designed in the 1970s by Gutcheon in McCall's. Beth and Jeffrey Gutcheon were quilt book authors back then (and might still be for all I know) and McCall's magazine has been publishing all kinds of patterns and books forever."
and
"Jeff Gutcheon did design the card trick block back in the 70's. He and Beth (who also wrote The Perfect patchwork Primer, and is now a distinguished and successful fiction writer) were WAY ahead of their time. Their Quilt Design Workbook was by far the most innovative and influential book on contemporary quilting. Things like chain piecing, and new designs such as card trick and many other features were considered great leaps of quilting in a day where all you could find were ditsy calicos. The book still holds up today. Get a hold of a copy (library, ebay, quilt guild library) and you will be quite amazed. They also feature the work of other celebrity quilters of the 70's such as Molly Upton."
ETA: Just FYI, the Faux Card Trick block was designed by Anita Grossman Solomon. She confirms that Gutcheon designed Card Trick.
Sorry, but that is simply mis-information.
01-11-2013, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
Sorry, but that is simply mis-information.
Show us some proof that it's as old as you say. And don't be citing the fact that it's in Malone's book. The detailed promo blurb on the contents of 1001 Patchwork Designs states: "Perhaps the largest collection of patchwork quilt designs and variations ever seen in a single book, and more than a few in glowing colour. The designs range from the traditional favourites to the new and innovative, and in addition there is plenty of advice on how to determine quilt size and fabric requirements, how to assemble a quilt, how to set the top, quilting, how to create with colour - in fact, about everything the needleworker needs to know." Inclusion in the book does not mean the block is traditional or even in the public domain.
There is not one single example of a quilt using Card Trick that dates before 1983 in the MSU Quilt Index. See for yourself.
http://www.quiltindex.org/search_res...&Search=Search
01-11-2013, 03:58 PM
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Inclusion in the book does not mean the block is traditional
What is traditional quilting is going to expand over time. Not everything that is "traditional" is going to date to pioneer days.
(It's like 'mid-century modern' there is NOTHING modern about that anymore.)
01-11-2013, 04:45 PM
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LOL - sorry to start a debate! Maybe this is a better question - if my swap buddy wants "traditional blocks", would you do a card trick, or would you keep it to something even older.
Also, how about "squares and oblongs"? Anyone know about that block? I can only find it on quilterscache. They say it is traditional, but how can it be if I can not find it referenced anywhere else? Maybe it goes under a different name? Maybe I am missing something?
Anyway - thanks to you all. Lots of good information!
Also, how about "squares and oblongs"? Anyone know about that block? I can only find it on quilterscache. They say it is traditional, but how can it be if I can not find it referenced anywhere else? Maybe it goes under a different name? Maybe I am missing something?
Anyway - thanks to you all. Lots of good information!
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