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07-23-2011, 11:12 AM

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wildyard

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Originally Posted by Jim

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...

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!

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.

my first quilt top ever, turned it into a bedspread!

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07-23-2011, 12:06 PM

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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.

07-23-2011, 12:19 PM

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

07-23-2011, 12:31 PM

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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

Sounds like Stack the Deck.