cedarvalleyquilts

Neat idea...thanks for sharing this. Can't wait to try it out.

San Luis

Thank you! This is one of my favorite to do blocks, but all those triangles had put me off. Now, I think I can do it.

Rose Cactus

great tut, thanks

Mari Marike

Thanks for tutorial!

hotmom

Cool

loves_2_quilt

Seem very close to the way Eleanor Burns makes hers in her Card Trick book. I have made them this way for a LONG time now.

Jan in VA

As I personally am not an Eleanor follower I don't know about her card trick. (Long story that has little to do with her piecing.)

I do know that long before Eleanor, or many other known quilters, was Mary Ellen Hopkins, who was a front runner in the speed-piecing/strip-piecing movement, late 70s, very early 80s. She could always find a better, easier way to make a traditional block and often make it a slap-your-forehead 'aha' moment fun.

I, for one, am very grateful for her vision early in the quilting resurgence. This tutorial is how I learned the block right from her seminar in Las Vegas more than a couple decades ago. Many quilters have picked it up since then, and before.

Jan in VA

bebe

do u have apic of your block and your setting??
Jan can u post a pic????
please :-D :-D :-D

Fran JB

please send the turorial to me on th card trick at:
[email protected]
thanks, Fran J

Jan in VA

Sending by regular email.

Jan in VA