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Old 12-30-2009, 08:53 PM
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I was looking at the BOM for card trick and it's the way I've mostly always seen and done which is 4 triangles for each color. See link below if you don't know what a card trick is.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-2745-1.htm

In Anita Grossman Solomon's book that I have, she does a cardtrick using 3 squares for each color. Makes a lot of sense to me since squares are easier to work with and for me turn out much more exact.

My question - if it's done with squares, is that still a card trick? Or does it become a faux card trick?
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Old 12-31-2009, 01:00 AM
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I see why they are done in the triangles, it would depend on which way you were putting them together to see which would work better for you, I am not sure if it would be a faux or not, though does it matter if it looks the same when you are done? I will check my patterns tomorrow to see which way they do it,
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I think it woud still be a card trick, no matter how you put it together.
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As long as you get the same pattern, it does not matter :wink: When I made these I revised the pattern, too :D:D:D
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Originally Posted by LucyInTheSky
In Anita Grossman Solomon's book that I have, she does a cardtrick using 3 squares for each color. Makes a lot of sense to me since squares are easier to work with and for me turn out much more exact.

My question - if it's done with squares, is that still a card trick? Or does it become a faux card trick?
Since the author calls it a Faux Card Trick and not a Card Trick, I certainly would too. A best, it's a Card Trick Variation. The seaming is integral to the block name. It DOES matter.
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:26 AM
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There is an Eleanor Burns book called "Winning Hand" it is done with squares. It looks the same as card trick, I think the difference in the name is because of copyright on the name Card Trick.
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