Stack n Whack Quilt Top Using a Layer Cake - Episode 1
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- In this episode you will see me take a 10" layer cake and stack it, whack it, sew it and press it to create an interesting quilt top of coordinating fabrics.
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I would love to make this quilt as my last big quilt for my 85th birthday in August.
Wow! So many complaints ya'll need to chill. I think she did great!
Thanks for sharing❤Music is awesome too!! Nice project for this newbie quilter.
Thank you! 😊
Holy cow. So many undeserved negative comments! I appreciate the video AND your polite responses. Not sure I could have done it. Btw, your voice is great. Pleasant and clear.
Thanks for watching!
You seem so nice! I like that you don't go too fast or slow, and that you keep it simple. Thank you for showing us this method.
Thank you!
I like your version of stack n whack. Simple and elegant
Very concise explanation! Thanks very much. 😁 Greetings from British Columbia, Canada. Happy quilting to all!
Thank you and Welcome!
Hi from the island..happy quilting..🇨🇦
I was in the middle of watching your video and realized you are in Jeffersonville and that’s where I grew up! Enjoyed the first one and will be watching more!
Well hey there! I didn’t grow up here, but have lived here the last 16 years. Thanks for watching!
Pretty fabric for this, and yes great price!! Thank you for sharing!!
I always called this Stack n Slash. It’s so much fun to do!
Yes! Actually a more appropriate name for it. Later on I did a true Stack n Whack series
Thank you for showing us all the fabrics at the beginning. Its so difficult to know what you're buying & this is so helpful x
Glad it was helpful!
I love the look of this quilt. I have so many layer cakes and 10 inch stackers that I can't wait to get cutting and sewing :)
I have a hard time wanting to cut up these beautiful 10” squares, but this was so much fun!
Wow! What a great idea. I look forward to part 2! Thank you.
Isn’t it? A great way to get a complicated look with an easy technique. Thanks for watching!
Love a good stack 'n whack. Thanks for sharing!
Lovely blocks. Thank you. Looking for part 2 now 😊
I love that layer cake! lovely colors!
It was lovely wasn’t it?
Here we do a stake and slash quilt with 9 fat quarters. Square up and then place a saftey pin in top lef hand corner and make an angled cut from top to bottom, take top piece from right hand side and then sew all together in the same way as shown on video, leaving that saftey pin in at all times, now make another angled cut from top to bottom this time take 2 pieces from right hand side and place at bottom and sew together, now make another cut from left side across stack take 3 pieces and place to bottom and then repeat another cut take 4 pieces from top to bottom and sew together, dont worry about joins maching exactly. Now take out pin, iron all blocks, trim to same size, arrange trying not to but the same fabrics together, you will find some fabrics will be repeated in same block but thats ok, I have sashed the blocks and added boarders then when quilting played with my fancy stitches and quilted over the seams giving a crazy patch work look. Great fun quilt to make and top can be made in a day. Great for themed fabric.
Sounds like what I would call a kaleidoscope quilt pattern. Thanks, I’ll try that some day!
I chain stitch my blocks so I don't have to cut so many thread ends. I love this idea!
I chain stitch sometimes. Thanks Marie!
Very pretty layer cake prints & must have been fun sewing!
I enjoy it! Thanks for watching Frances!
That fabric is gorgeous!
I love this print. Used it in a jelly roll for a quilt!
Yes, I loved it!
I love it too. Can anyone tell me the name of it?
Love this! Thank you for a Great Video. ❤
You are so welcome!
I have done Stack n Whack from the book by Bethany Reynolds. Using a large scale print align at certain points and depending on the repeat, cut strips and then sub cut at a certain size. You then can get various blocks out of the same single cut.
I’ve heard of this method, I’d like to try it.
Donna Jordan has 2 videos on kaleidoscope quilts. The first one has Matt stacking the fabrics and it’s excruciating to watch just how painstakingly tedious it was. The results were spectacular but I didn’t have the patience to even try
Much more recently Donna showed how to cut and pin the pieces and it was SO easy.
Very nice and looks easy too!
Thank you! Yes, it’s very simple in design.
Very cute!!!
These would be perfect for making pillows too.
Thank you, you made it so simple to understand.
I hope so! Thanks Susan!
Очень красивые лоскуты!
Stack n Whack was published in 1998 by Bethany Reynolds. Saw the technique at the Paducah Quilt Show and two friends and I raided the fabric department at Walmart in Paducah for outlandish fabric patterns to test it out. Only time as an adult we were out in our pajamas and robes around 2 AM (and no alcohol was involved).
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I made several of those too. My favorite was neon colored frogs! It's awesome and I never gave it away.
Love this story 🥰
Pretty fabrics 💖
I appreciate the video
stack and whack was layering 8 repeats exactly so when you cut them they repeated the design on your block. That was the original.
Interesting! Is that the same as a kaleidoscope design?
@@lessonslearnt5966 you can make a kaleidoscope block with all the identical pieces. Identical because you stack each section of fabric exactly on top of each other with matching repeats. I made a whole kaleidoscope quilt with this technique. From a book by Bethany Reynolds
@@lessonslearnt5966 LA Paylor is correct in explaining what a Stack And Whack is.
That was my thought, too, as I made several maybe 20 some years ago. They did look like a kaleidoscope if you cut just right.! We didn’t have layer cakes back then!
The cost of pre-cuts, if you go by the yardage you get, is way more expensive than just buying by the yard. But it’s hard not to be tempted by having all those beautiful prints all together.
It sure is! Thanks Lori!
@@lessonslearnt5966 of course, when you get an awesome sale like you did, that really helps! 😁
A layer cake is about 3 yards of fabric. I love them when they’re on sale, lol, but the problem is that there are usually some prints I don’t like. I buy them from Missouri Star’s Daily Deal when I buy them. Sometimes they’re as low as $19.99.
Thanks for sharing
Its a great idea and looks lovely. However for accurate quilting I would not personally recommend using your cutting board grid as a measure (which distorts over time). I have always been shown to bring the ruler in from the left (at the rulers 3 inch mark) on this occasion and cut the three inches off on the left down the right side of the ruler, leaving 7 inches of fabric to the right. This would be accurate every time.
You’re right! We should always measure with a ruler, not the mat. Even Olfa says that 😉👍🏻
True! The grid is great for a guess and to straighten the fabric, but not exact like a ruler
I make more cuts for my stack and whack. If I have 5 fabrics in a set, I make 4 cuts, if I have 6 fabrics, I make 5 cuts. When you have several cuts, you move one down to the bottom on one stack, two down to the bottom on another, etc. This way, every cut section is a different fabric. Note: If you edge the pieces with an inch wide strip on black before sewing them back together, you get a stained-glass look to your block.
I’m learning that there’s a lot of versions of this method. I hope to try some of them in the near future. Yes! The stained glass look would look awesome.
@@lessonslearnt5966 Check out "OnPoint-TV and Quilting with Nancy". (The episode is "Create "Pieced Backgrounds" and "Fractured Glass" Blocks") The "Fractured Glass" with the black "leading" instructions starts at 23:00. I just finished 42 blocks for my granddaughter.
Check out kaleidoscope quilts. Stack n Whack is another term for them.
I like the pinked edges
can't wait to try this! thank you!!!!
I have a layer cake that measures 10 x 9.75. I think this method of cutting would work for it because I can then square it up after sewing. Thanks for the tutorial.
I’d say so
Gotta love that major sale!!
Indiana? My daughter and husband live there. I love indiana and KY. Salem donuts, the best.
Cool!
What ever it’s called, I like it!
It only works if all the fabrics are different don’t work with repeats especially when you have two or three of the same prints togethe
There were definitely some lessons learnt in this quilt project 😬😄
New subscriber here. I always admire people who are willing to put themselves out to the big beyond to share their work.
A suggestion: since the cutting/sewing is straightforward and repetitive consider showing just a couple reps
Looking forward to seeing more from you!
Welcome! I always am open to suggestions and thank you for watching!
You could turn blocks different angles
Hello from North Carolina 💝
Hello!
Loved the tutorial and the music the only thing it was a bit blurry
Thank you Carol! Yes, that particular day, natural sunlight was interfering with camera focus...lesson learnt 🤷🏼♀️
Me too
Im not fond of some of the patterns in the fabric but the idea is fun
Great video…..
Thank you Charlene!
I am loving this demo but Where is episode 3? Please I can't find it.
It will be out tomorrow morning.
Subscribed to your channel.😊
Thank you Sandy!
Dislike the music. Will check out the follow up video. Interested in your process
I worked on lowering the music in later videos. I hope it makes a difference for you. Thanks for watching!
What brand of rotary cutter are you using? So cute... Love stack and whack...
Fon’s & Porter
Jeffersonville as in Jeffersonville, KY?? Lovely quilt, I have always liked this pattern. You chose the perfect layer cake for this quilt. Are you planning to use borders? Do your own quilting?
Indiana..right across the river from Louisville. But I’m from Clay Co. KY originally. No borders on this one, it turned out quite large and I need it for a baby gift. I did machine quilt it myself as you will see in the next video. Stay tuned! And Thank you for watching!
ps. great job
I wish fabric companies would stop pinking the edges!
Oh I know it! I’m about to swear off of precuts. There’s a company called Jordan Fabrics that don’t pink the edges. You can shop online Jordan fabrics.com
They do it to keep the edges from fraying with handling. It is annoying but that’s why they do it.
Be sure to measure to see if the measurements are to the inside or the outside edge of the pinking.... companies aren't consistent...
Agreed
Hate the pinking, whatever the reason.
You need to make sure you do not have two of the same print together in the original stack for this to work!
I live very close to Jeffersonville. Do you have a shop there. If not, where is a close quilt shop. I am enjoying the tutorials very much.
Oh really? The closest “good” quilt shop is on Taylorsville Rd in Louisville. It’s called Among Friends. There’s also Austin’s Sewing Center on Bardstown Rd. In Louisville. They are big on selling machines and long arms etc., but they also have fabric and classes.
Please watch where your camera is placed. Your bottom is off, I can’t see all of the fabric
It’s a constant battle trying to position the camera right. I’ll keep working on it. I appreciate your input Cheryl and thanks for watching!
They will be 9 1/2” x 10” won’t they if yo sewed them to each other with 1/4” seams
At this point you are correct, but the upcoming episodes will reveal the final size.
I have my own 10 inch blocks that I have cut from left over quilts I have made and fabric that has been given to me. They are not coordinated I wonder how that would look.
You might be surprised how nice it turns out! Thanks for watching Betty!
It would be a real scrapppy quilt and look lovely
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Did you place the duplicate fabrics on the bottom too?
Yes, and then when I got to the last few blocks, I made sure again that I wasn’t left with several of the same print. Technically, this method would work perfectly if there were no repeats, but it wasn’t difficult to get the randomness that I wanted.
Your fabric is so cheap! Here in Australia, a layer cake starts at $70 for no name brands, Kaffe Fassat is $100.
Wow! That’s crazy!
The exchange rate makes that about $52 US dollars and most layer cakes here are around 45 to 50 US dollars, so you're paying more, probably for the shipping, but not quite as bad as it sounds. Still, all pre cuts are more for convenience as they're definitely a lot more than if you bought them by the yard
Don't know where you are shopping, look local prices are no where near your quote, there are discount shops here in Australia Spotlight has bargins but I always check quality but have found good quality fabrics. I live in a country town and our quilt shop gives us a very generous discount as they know we make a lot of charity quilts maybe if you join a group you may get local discounts.
You make way more money than us too! And we also have cheaper quality. Joann s doesn't see Liberty of London. We can now get decent yarn w/o big shipping costs through lovecrafts.😗
@@helenmorgan4003 Shopping at quilt shops! I don’t find Spotlight has good quality precuts, even though their yardage can be good. Plus there is little choice and certainly no Kaffes, Tulas or AnnaMarias to name but a few.
Plz tell us how can we buy this using quail in this video
I’m not sure I understand your question
Quail??
love the music what is that
UA-cam music called Serenity
What is the handle on your ruler?
It’s a gypsy gripper. You can buy them from fatquartershop.com
What.brand of rotary cutter are you using here?
Fons & Porter I believe
This is a lovely quilt, but it is NOT Stack 'n Whack. It's called Stack 'n Slash. This was the first "version" that was created, but later Bethany Reynolds created Stack 'n Whack, which requires cutting a single fabric into several sections. Each section is a duplicate as far as the placement of the print. These sections are matched, one on top of the other, and cut so that every section cut is identical. At this point, you can choose Stack 'n Whack or One Block Wonder (they are NOT the same.) SnW is simply sewing these sections together in a kaleidoscope design and using sashings or spacers between the blocks. One Block Wonder is always hexagon shapes that fit together to make a single 1 block (the entire quilt.) The sections are sewn in sets of 3 to make the hexagon and then sewn in strips, placement relying on the movement of colors and designs to flow through the entire top. Please make sure you have the correct term when demonstrating a technique. You are muddying the conversations because your students will call it one thing, but find that it's quite different.
I’ve learned a lot about it since I put the videos out back in February. Hers is more of what I would call a kaleidoscope. But yes, she did call it SnW and I’m about to take the class through American Quilter Society. I’ll probably have a Stack n Whack redux series afterwards.
That was what I thought, not a Stack n Whack.
What is the difference between stack ‘n whack and stack ‘n slash?
Probably the same thing. I’ve also heard stack and slice.
Everything is off centre and blurry with the camera .. not very helpful
Yes, I’m trying to improve
It would be nice to show the finished item at the beginning so viewers can visualize it as you go. Otherwise it’s just cutting and sewing.
Perhaps. I was aiming to create a little suspense 😁 Thanks for watching!
This video is very blurry and hard to watch
Hmmm, no other complaints. Maybe it’s your device’s resolution.
This is Not “Melody”Lane 🙄 It is MEADOW LANE
Ding, ding, ding…you are correct!
To. Much flowers, please showcase some other type of fabric besides flowers.
Seriously?
Your video is a bit fussy to look at.
Do you mean fuzzy? I’m working on better lighting. Thanks for watching!
Too much of the same thing. Cutting the whole stack then sewing the whole stack. Sorry, found it boring.
No problem! You’d be surprised how many people like to watch repetitive cutting 🤣
Except that someone else has already coined that term and written FAMOUS books and done a video DVD and Stack n Wack actually uses a 60 degree ruler. Maybe if you research before you decide on a name for a cutting-sewing method in the future. But your idea and sewing method are OK.
Yes! Since this video, I have taken a class on the Bethany Reynolds Stack n Whack method (although she doesn’t use a 60 degree ruler). I have recently made a whole other video series on it. Check it out!
the video is bad.......can't see too good
Nearly 140,000 views on this video and no one else has ever said that.
Lessons LEARNED………there is NO T at the end of the word LEARNED.
The word learnt is an Old English version of learned. Either are acceptable in the modern English that we speak now, although it’s not as common.