Stack and whack quilts

Stack-n-whack quilt making is a unique and fun way to create a quilt. The technique involves stacking fabric, cutting it into shapes and then rearranging them to create a new design. It’s eas…

This is one of those quilts that looks so complicated you think you’ll never make one. But nothing could be further from the truth. This type of quilt goes by different names: kaleidoscope, whack and

The Stack and Wack Quilt ⋆ This method is totally eye opening! I love it! I can't believe how simple it is to make a quilt top in a day!

Today is the official start of the One Block Wonder Quilt Along hosted by Quilter in the Closet . As you can see I got a little head start (I was too excited to wait!) This quilt along is based...

My mom took a class on stack-n-whacks and bought the book Magic Stack-n-Whack Quilts by Bethany Reynolds. One day I was looking through it and fell in love with the 60 degree diamond pattern. Then I looked through a Hancocks of Paducah catalog and decided it would be awesome with the Hoffman challenge fabric for the year. So we called the local quilt shops and found one that carried it. When we got there they were really apologetic, because it wasn't the actual challenge print. They had it…

I started seeing them everywhere!! And I was over at Chris' blog, Shared Creativity, and saw her beautiful regular Stack and Whack made from some gorgeous butterfly fabric and then she also did a 4-patch Stack and Whack from the same fabric and WOW!! So, of course, Bev and I had to try the 4-patch Stack and Whack and we used Japanese Chrysanthemums by Philip Jacobs. This is a piece of the Japanese Chrysanthemums and here are just a few of the 28 blocks we can create ~ This process never…

One of my favourite things in quilting is hexagon blocks and I just love kaleidoscope blocks. To make a kaleidoscope quilt, you only need fabric with a large print and 6 print repeats. Each block i…

Stack N Whack or One Block Wonder

I recently dug out one of my oldest UFOs to work on - Four Patch Posies. The UFO must be pre-2009 because I can't find any mention of it on my blog. In a large manila envelope I found 30 blocks made from a green, gray, purple floral. I also found 18 blocks in that floral with the pink background plus a stack of more of that floral all pinned together ready for cutting. Also in the envelope were pieces of several other fabrics I guess I was going to use to make some posies. I managed to make…