years ago, a friend made a crazy quilt starting with 12 stacked 16" squares. She cut them randomly, shuffled them and cut them again and so on until she had small pieces. She then sew them and came up with 16" crazy quilt blocks. There was a formula to the number of squares and the way she shuffle them. Anyone knows the name of the pattern? of the method? Thanks

stack & whack

It sounds like the patterns in Crazy Shortcut Quilts book by Marguerita McManus & Sarah Raffuse.
Here is a link to it:

http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Shortcut...1357707&sr=8-2

Could this be it?

http://www.ehow.com/how_7478005_sew-...ile-quilt.html

Here is a picture
http://quiltinggallery.com/2008/01/3...e-magic-tiles/

does not sound like stack and whack to me

http://www.bighornquilts.com/inspiration/strip/sns.html

stack and slash

it's not a stack 'n' whack - those are kaleidoscope blocks with the fabric cut precisely on the repeat.

I think you're talking about the Stack the Deck quilts. For reference purposes only, here's a link to the Martingale Website for one of the books: http://www.martingale-pub.com/store/...roducts_id=947

General directions: When making the stack of squares, you need one piece of fabric for each block you plan to make. You can repeat fabrics - that's up to you. Carefully pile the squares up, all face-up. Make a cut so that there are now two piles. For one of those piles, take the top piece of fabric, and put it on the bottom. Now make a 2nd cut only through ONE of the piles. Put the top piece on the bottom and make another cut, until you have the same # of piles as you do fabrics. To sew together, reverse the order that you made the cuts.

I think this is it! I checked the link. my friend made it with black and white fabric and just a hint of red, it was fast and quite beautiful! thanks for all the replies I got lots of ideas from them!

That's what I was thinking. We call this Slice & Dice (not anything related to the D9P quilt) and without the sashing.

I do a version called Slice and Mince - but I started with 8.5" squares and end up with 6/6.5" blocks (depends on the cutting).

I made the big one around 10 years ago (my 2nd quilt). I call it my 9/11 quilt (long story). The other two were just samples to see how the fabric worked up using that technique.

Those are beautiful! I especially like the safari one.

Beautiful, I like the second one the best.

It is called Stack and Whack...not all formulations of the stack and whack are the same...I made one after watching an episode of Alex Anderson before she and Ricky Tims joined forces..she had the little older woman Mary Ellen( cant remember her last name)on, teaching this method. I had 9 different fabrics in 9 inch squares...one of each color stacked and made 5 or 6 cuts in each stack...I moved one piece of fabric from top to bottom of one cut...then took the second piece to the bottom...then next the third and so forth to each stack of blocks until I had them all cut and moved into the correct order. I then placed each stack into a baggie until they were sewn...after trimming I had enough blocks to make a HUGE quilt and no two blocks were alike...

The design you are wanting is known by many different names.

You don't even need a pattern. You can draw your own. In which case it helps to know where you are cutting by measuring on the outside edge - like registration marks in sewing/embroidery.

ex:
1st cut: 2" up from Right lower corner to 4" down from Left upper corner.
2nd cut: 4" down from Right upper corner to mid Left side.
etc.


However, if you start with a 16" square your finished result will be much smaller due to the seam allowances. Unless you add borders or sashing, which definitely give it a different look.

ali

Yes - that is exactly how I learned. It was called a Stack n Whack then. My couch quilt is brown red and cream done this way - fast and easy and makes you look like you know what you are doing!

The picture was sort of what I was thinking of but without the black between the pieces.

These are what I know Stack 'n Whack to look like.
Oops, wouldn't post link. I googled S'nW and got images by Bethany Reynolds. She published a couple of books on them. Yes, she was on SQ with Alex Anderson at least once. All of the shapes are 60 degree triangles, and not random cut ups. ;-)

Another name for it is Kwik Krazy Kwilt. I have the pattern but can't put my hands on it now to give you the designer. You can probably Google it.

Mary Ellen HOPKINS. My hero! Let her name not be forgotten.

Last year I made a 9-piece shuffle. I can see that it could be done with 12. For the 9-piece, you stack 9 different squares of fabric and cut them 2 times vertically and 2 time hort. creating 9 stacks of fabric. To shuffle, starting at the lower right, take the top piece and place it on the bottom of the stack. From the next stack take the top 2 pieces and place on bottom. Then from the 3rd stack take the top 3 and place on the bottom. Move back to the first stack of the second row and continue until you get to the last stack on the top row and leave it in place. You should have 9 different layers. Next sew each layer together and you will have nine different blocks.

We made this pattern for our guild monthly project earlier this year. Each time we cut, we moved the top piece to the bottom and our cuts were more angular. If I remember correctly, I cut mine three times for larger pieces in the block. I haven't finished mine as yet as I plan to embroider over the seams like a real crazy quilt. It was a quick project and fun.

Your quilts are all pretty but I love the blue batiks!

I make a lot of these stack and whack quilts for Charity, after I sew the block together, I quilt it then put it together with the quilt as you go method. Fast and easy. Perfect for beginners. Need help pm me.

I think this is the one you want! I love it.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-53226-1.htm

I did some searching on the web for a better price for the "Shortcut Quilt" book. This is what I found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCgeA1qymQQ

On this web site the writer of the book, gives a demonstrration of how to make a crazy quilt from 18 inch fat quarters.

Very interesting. I'm going to try one.

I have a book called Stack The Deck Crazy Quilts. I think this is what you might be looking for. I made 11 of them for Christmas presents a few years ago. It has patterns in it but also has instructions on making your own pattern templates. Really quick and easy way to make a cute "crazy quilt. You cut the fabric squares, stack them up, lay the pattern on top, cut, shuffle, make the next cut and so on. I really liked it.

Just did a crazy quilt, I stacked 12 squares of different fabrics tehn cut them into 9 pieces. Starting with piece one take one piece of fabric and put it on the bottom of that pile, piece two, take two pieces and put them on the botoom of that pile, etc. I did 12 squares of material because that is what I could easily cut through!

Sounds more like 'stack and slash' to me, stack and whack begins with repeats of the same fabric pattern stacked and cut. Stack and slash is any fabric, stack in any order, cut, shuffled and after all seams and cuts, you have ramdom 'crazy quilt' block.

Stack the deck quilts are so fun to make and a great use for layer cakes...I follow the rule,
no. of cuts=no. of fabs
This works great and I love any pattern that encourages me to be free form and spontaneous.

I am currently working on a Crazy Shortcut Quilt. It goes together very quickly. It sounds similiar to what you are describing.

Stack the Deck.

I agree, kaleidescope was always called OBW and not stack and whack for the longest time. I don't know when the names switched around. My very first quilt was a Stack N Whack. I still have the pattern and that was the official name of it.

crazy 9 patch was the name of the one i did..the pattern was in a magazine. i also did it "quilt as you go" style after i made the blocks. super easy and quick.

thanks to you all I got lots of ideas and I found what I was looking for!

Sounds like Stack the Deck.

The method is covered in a book by Karla Alexander called Stack the Deck! Crazy Quilts in 4 Easy Steps.

Stack and Whack turned into Valor Quilt. 2011

very nice! love the center medallion!

Bookmarking this sounds interesting

I like the looks of this one, will have to try

That quilt is gorgeous!