luvmy2bts

Okay here goes I will try to explain. After you have gotten your stacks cut into 11 pieces the first stack leave alone. The next stack move one layer to the bottom the next stack move two layers to the bottom and the next stack move three layers to the bottom and so forth until you have All your stacks layered. So each piece is a different color when you have them layered correctly. Hope that makes sense

Debbie KS

sno

I know this sounds easy...but believe me it is not...I have spent two weeks trying to figure out the correct stacking order. It is not as simple as you would think.
After making the first cut..and placing the smaller piece of fabric to the very bottom..,and the second cut and moving that to the very bottom, the third cut, and moving that to the very bottom, after the forth cut, moving that to the very bottom, then the same fabric shows up in the same sqare..on for instance block #5..has the #11 fabric in the same square...
There has to be a way to stack without repeating fabrics...

Shemjo

You need to move more than one piece at a time. For the first cut, do nothing; for the second cut, move the top piece to the bottom; for the third cut, move the top two to the bottom; for the fourth cut, move the top three to the bottom, and so on. At least this is what I would do, to get eleven different pieces in each patch!

amma

I think you are getting confused at the cutting point. You stack 11 different fabrics and cut them all out at the same time. Then you start moving the pieces as luvmy2bts described. Other wise you will not get the variations you are looking for.

The first piece (stack) is left alone...The second stack you take the first piece and move it to the bottom of the stack. The third stack, you take the top two pieces and move them to the bottom of the stack. Make sure that you do not disturb the order, just count out two and put them on the bottom of the stack... Keep going through the stacks adding on one more piece each time you count. This way you have rotated the fabrics so that each block will be a different combination. You then take the top pieces and make a block, the next layer is your next block...and so on.

Scissor Queen

I wouldn't get all caught up in the order they have to be shuffled. Just move the top piece to the bottom to start with and probably until you get at least half way thru. Then just look at the block. If block one doesn't have fabric A in it, put a piece in it and so on.

sno

I wish I could draw a picture to show you guys....I am not getting lost in the shuffle...The problem is...you make the first cut...two pieces of fabric are in the block..Fabric 1 is on the left..fabric 2 is on the right...making the second cut...Fabric 1 is in the middle..fabric 2 is on the right..fabric 3 is on the left side....Making the third cut..you now have fabric 1 at the middle top..fabric 2 at the top right, fabric 3 at the top left. You now have fabric 4 at the bottom middle and fabric 5 at the bottom left. There are now five fabrics in one square. Making the forth cut, the same fabric shows up in squares..for instance, block five, now has fabric 5 at the top middle, fabric 6 at the top right, fabric 7 at the top left, fabric 10 at the bottom left, fabric 6 is the a part of the star at the bottom left, then you have fabric 1 at the bottom middle, fabric 9 is a part of the star at the bottom right. and repeat fabric 10 is at the bottom right I have tried many different shuffles where fabric don't repeat, and..I actually have gotten it to work where I can get 8 fabrics in the square, but when I make the last cut..I can never get all 11 fabrics in one square. Again I am not sewing 11 pieces at a time..I am only sewing two pieces at a time...

Thanks to everyone who has been so nice trying to help me..I wish it was as easy as it seem....but I am telling you there is a way...because I have seen the pattern, I have seen a quilt made from this pattern, and it is in the shufflin of the squares...

LucyInTheSky

Cut all 11 fabrics. Then go to a room with a lot of space.

Fabric #1 has 11 pieces, right? So lay it out in 11 different star "areas" (you'll be laying out 11 star blocks). Lay 1 piece from fabric #1 in each area. You now have 1 piece of 11 stars, and each piece is different.

Fabric #2, place in with each of the 11 star areas. As long as you don't pick the same piece you already have from fabric #1, they will all lay out fine. Now you have 11 star blocks with 2 pieces.

And just keep repeating. This should always give you 11 different stars with fully different colors, as long as it's different pieces, and you only put 1 from each fabric with each star. There will always be somewhere in the 11 blocks to put each new piece. So if you've laid out fabrics 1-10 and only 11 is left, and the 1st block doesn't need a center but it does need a top right background, top right fabric #11 piece there, and the center where ever it's needed.

LucyInTheSky

I'm working off of the link that was provided around post #3. Just layout the fabrics, cut all of them into the stars, and then start to break them up. Your way is confusing me :lol: so cut, then arrange like I described in the above post, and it should work perfectly fine and happy

LucyInTheSky

I read, post, read, post, read, and post, so forgive the multiple posts in a row.

I think where you're getting confused is you're moving as you cut. Cut them all, then do the moving tops to bottoms that people have described (Amma's makes the most sense to me). Don't do too much at once, that's where things are getting weird. Cut all, then rotate or layout

sno

Thank you for posting...
I know it is confusing..and cutting the 11 fabrics first into 11 pieces would ceretainly work..but then instead of working with 11 fabrics with just one cut at a time I would have 100's of pieces..which when then be a piece quilt and not a slash and stack...
I wish I could just find the pattern...,
but until then I may just have figure out another project to do...