A Stack N Slash quilt is the easiest way ever to make a quilt. It's a fun quilt to make when you just want to relax and play. Free printable.
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My friends and I had a great time yesterday talking and eating and talking some more. I hadn't seen a couple of them for over a year. They left around 3:30 so by 6 p.m. I was ready to do something on my clean cutting tables. I have had these 12 fabrics chosen for a project for about 4 months, all pressed and ready to cut into. This is the original pattern I had for this project. I made a small quilt with the original directions a few years ago. I have used many different measurements for the center square. I think I used 7" for this tutorial. It took about 45 minutes to cut all of the pieces for 24 blocks and 2 hours to sew them to this stage of the project. The next step is why I call it Stack and Slash. I decided to stack 4 blocks dark/light/dark/light and slice them all at once. I also worked at the corner of a table so I could stand on one side for this first cut and....... on another side for the second cut. I am putting the 2.25" mark of the ruler on the seamline of the center square and the outside strip. After cutting. Then I shuffled the pieces like we do in so many of the stack and slash quilts. This gives me 4 blocks with the same 8 fabrics but the position changes for each color. After I had 2 sets of them cut and sewn I put the resulting 8 blocks on the wall. There will be a lot more variety as I get the next 4 stacks slashed and sewn. I would be bored to tears working with just 12 fabrics if this wasn't a fast quilt. As it is it will probably be done tomorrow. As for my friends' opinion on the quilt yesterday, they liked the 9 patch border too so I may add it to that quilt.
One of Maree’s starsThe block for May is a liberated, stack and slash, 5-pointed star. Susan Druding’s directions for the technique are here: Slash Stars This is on…
Hi everyone, welcome! As promised, I'm back with a tutorial on how to make your own improv blocks using stack and slash method. I used...
I finished 4 quilt tops, 2 started last year and 2 started and completed in January. One quilt top is mostly completed; I want to add some pieced borders to it yet. I quilted and bound one quilt. Started in the late 1990s. Seven mug rugs were completed. Five dish cloths knitted. The top one is the end of 3 different balls of yarn. I need to knit some cheerier colors this month.
This is such a fun, easy quilt to make and it uses the stack n slash quilt technique to create the blocks. The quilt was made with 20 x 10' squares of fabric. You can cut 10' squares from fabric you have on hand or you can make it from a Layer Cake. You do need to make sure that you put together 4 different colored fabrics in each block. Watch the video tutorial below or scroll down for the written instructions The quilt measures 46' x 54.5'. You can make it larger just by adding more blocks. You could
Hi everyone, welcome! As promised, I'm back with a tutorial on how to make your own improv blocks using stack and slash method. I used...
A Stack N Slash quilt is the easiest way ever to make a quilt. It's a fun quilt to make when you just want to relax and play. Free printable.
Here are the winners from our Sprinkles giveaway HERE . We wanted to know about your fiesty kids!!! :) The two OH SO FUNNY winners (Erin...
This is an oldie but a goodie. Stack and Slash Quilts 13 fat quarters or 25 9x9 squares (stacking material) 1/2yard inner border ...
I moved a few blocks to new positions and decided it was time to sew it together. If you haven't been following along on this one, here is the link to the tutorial. Both of these new Stack and Slash quilts are about 56" x 70". I have 6 of the strip sets for the Twisted Rail quilt sewn now and pressed. I took 2 of them and layered them like I show in my tutorial and cut them. These are ready to take to the machine. If you have your machine in a cabinet with an insert around it or have a table that fits around your machine to create a flat surface you shouldn't have any trouble with stretching on this seam. After I sew it I take it to the ironing board and set the seam by setting the iron on top without sliding. Then I press the seam to one side pressing with the grain of the fabric, not with the bias seam. I had two reasons to make this pattern again. One was because I need a few fast flannel quilts for gifts and the other was to try out another layout. This is the original layout in the tutorial which works really well when you have an uneven number of blocks in one or both directions. This is another layout that would work in a quilt with an even number of blocks in both directions. I'm planning this one 6 blocks x 8 blocks so I may use this layout. My orange cactus is still blooming and has a few more buds. The pale pink one that has bloomed twice already has just started blooming again. Unfortunately in the photo I cut off the open flower at the bottom. I have a 2 tone pink and white and a red one with buds, and the cutting from my mother-in-law's plant has buds. I fought off a headache all day yesterday so I hope it doesn't hit me today. Snow predicted tomorrow and the headaches sometimes come with moisture storms (and barometric pressure changes).
Hi everyone, welcome! As promised, I'm back with a tutorial on how to make your own improv blocks using stack and slash method. I used...
It's nice to have an easy project in the works while working on one that will take a long time. This top is sewn together and staystitched around the edges. I'm not in love with it but it used up 5 yards of flannel and is very girly with all of those flowers. It is 56" x 70" before quilting. I cut more strips and corners for Rattlesnake and then made 2 more blocks. There are 36 of these blocks in the quilt and I only have 19 pairs of corners cut so far. I have plenty of fabric, it is just a matter of deciding which ones I want to use.
This is such a fun, easy quilt to make and it uses the stack n slash quilt technique to create the blocks. The quilt was made with 20 x 10' squares of fabric. You can cut 10' squares from fabric you have on hand or you can make it from a Layer Cake. You do need to make sure that you put together 4 different colored fabrics in each block. Watch the video tutorial below or scroll down for the written instructions The quilt measures 46' x 54.5'. You can make it larger just by adding more blocks. You could
Quilt-Along {if you like!} (Under construction. Pictures to follow ...as I go. My New Years' Resolve!) My daughter Sara asked for a quilt-as-you-go lesson while home for Christmas break but it didn't happen. I promised to document my progress on the new Stained Glass Stack n' Slash Quilt I'm about to begin - like the one I did last summer. I'm making this one with smaller squares of fabric - using a 12 ½ inch square ruler to cut each square of fabric. I'm going to use the quilt-as-you-go method, but the steps for making blocks would be the same if sewing a quilt top to be quilted later. For quilt squares with no 2 colors alike in each block you need 9 different fabrics. For 36 blocks (arranged in rows of 6 x 6) Cut 4 of each color and stack each set of 9 fabrics exactly the same. Each stack gives you 9 finished blocks. Number of blocks per row is up to you! Depending on how many stacks you make, there may be leftovers. Make note of your 9 fabric squares' order from bottom to top and remember to stack them back in a pile the same way each time you sew the stack. DON'T SHUFFLE THE PIECES MOVED TO THE BOTTOM. LEAVE THEM JUST AS THEY ARE, RIGHT SIDE UP AS THEY WERE STACKED. After they are sewn back together with the stained glass strip, there's a "shuffle the stack" formula that keeps no 2 fabrics alike in each block. Number of sections "shuffled to the bottom" is different for each step! Fingers crossed I get it right. Helpful websites I use along the way will be listed here: Stack n' Slash formula for cutting, re-stacking and slashing again - called Crazy-9 Patch on this blog. Does not include stained glass technique but formula for *slashing/sewing/stacking* (repeat!) should be the same. TESTING. Pretty sure this was the site I went to before when memory failed and 2nd batch of blocks went wrong. PATTERN: Cut 12½ square from a brown paper bag and mark lines as shown. (coming soon!) More or less. YOUR PATTERN WILL BE UNIQUELY YOURS. Not required to be exact. Be consistent. Cut (many!) 1¼ inch strips (width of fabric) for Stained Glass effect. You'll probably need to straighten the edge of fabric once in a while so the strips don't go wonky on the fold. Width of strips for joining blocks will be wider... we'll deal with those later! Folding paper pattern along the line you are about to cut and placing on top of the stack helps each cut be more or less the same. DO NOT CUT THROUGH THE PAPER! It's not necessary for each block to be the same - in fact they will not be. Using the paper guide will show ruler placement to make cuts go faster, making blocks very similar. You can slide the paper away or not but be careful not to cut into it. You'll be cutting through 9 layers PLUS seam allowances in some instances. Use a sharp rotary blade! BE CAREFUL ;) 9 fabrics stacked with cutting guide. Fold pattern back on line showing where to cut. Move 1 piece on left from top to bottom. Sew sections together with strips. Use guide folded back to cut next slice through all layers. All 9 layers cut. Move 2 pieces on right from top to bottom. Sew sections back together with stained glass strips. Rotate clockwise one turn. Place guide as for 1st cut. 3 pieces on left moved from top to bottom. Last cut with 6 on right moved to bottom.
The tutorial for my Slashed Squares quilt is now for sale on my Etsy shop here. It is an instant download so you can get started right away.
A Stack N Slash quilt is the easiest way ever to make a quilt. It's a fun quilt to make when you just want to relax and play. Free printable.
I don't know about you... But I'm loving the Featured Bloggers part of Quilt Class.. They are so so talented and I am amazed and in awe of what they come up with and share with us. I'm excited to introduce Kate from Kate Conklin Designs as the featured blogger for this week. Kate and her 'Extreme Quilting' Kate is extra special for so many reasons. She married my cousin Todd and we quickly became really great friends. A few years ago we got free tickets to a craft show in Sydney and decided we would go together.. AHHHH!! I don't think we had any idea what we were getting ourselves into ( i don't think our hubby's did either!!) .. Neither of us had been to a craft show before. We had both dabbled in different crafts.. But when we saw the fabrics available.... we fell in love. Kate and I bought a couple of fabric bundles each are decided we would make our first quilts. Since then our passion has snowballed from sewing, quilting and handmade projects to designing and writing patterns for Quilts, blogging and squeezing it all in around our families. Kate is amazingly talented, her quilt designs and patterns are brilliant, AND she ROCKS when it comes to her Stack and Slash technique.. So today, She is going to teach us how to make this Gorgeous Quilt!! Thanks Kate, Your the Greatest!! Hi, I'm Kate, I love the "Stack and Slash" method of creating quilts. For those of you who aren't familiar with this term, it's basically where you stack up some fabric, make some cuts, move them around and sew them back together. It's fun, easy and gives a great improvisational look without cutting lots of individual strips or wasting fabric. I have used this method in many of my quilt patterns. It's actually what started me writing patterns. I felt that the "Stack and Slash" method hadn't been fully explored in modern quilt patterns and I had some fun ideas that I could share with others. Some of my patterns which employ this method of cutting and piecing are... Sherbet Dreams Fussy Fairytales Wonky Donkey Sea Views Sierra's Forest There's a Square in There As you can see, this method is useful in creating very diverse quilts. I wanted to share with you a really easy 'Stack and Slash' tutorial. This isn't one of my original designs - I've seen similar quilts around on the Internet, but it is my own method. It uses 8 Fat quarters of patterned fabric and 8 Fat quarters of solid fabric, and it's super easy. Cut 8 rectangles, 20 1/2" wide x 17 1/2" tall of patterned fabric and another 8 rectangles (20 1/2" x 17 1/2") of a plain solid. Divide them into two piles. Each pile will contain 4 patterned rectangles and 4 solid rectangles. Take one pile and stack the fabric on top of each other, ensuring the edges are carefully aligned. Alternate the plain and patterned fabric, ironing as you go (this will help them stay together as you cut them). I've used Cloud 9's Nature Walk range and a natural solid. I've folded back the fabric for instructional purposes only. The fabric should be lying flat. Using your rotary cutter and ruler, cut through the stack of fabric 7 times, so you have 8 strips. My strips were approximately 2 1/2" wide. Cut on a slight angle - about 1/2 inch difference from top to bottom. You can vary the angle and the width of the strips. Leave the strip on the far left hand side as it is. Now go to the strip next to it and move the top fabric to the bottom of its pile leaving a solid strip at the top. From the third pile of strips, move the top 2 fabrics to the bottom of its pile. From the fourth pile, move the top 3 fabrics to the bottom. Continue in this manner until all of the fabrics are represented at the top (as shown in the picture). Sew the top strips together using a 1/4 inch seam. Press seams towards the patterned fabric. Then sew the next set of top strips together ... ...and so on until you have sewn 8 blocks of 8 strips. Take your other stack of 8 rectangles that you set aside earlier. Repeat the above instructions to make another 8 blocks, yielding 16 blocks altogether. Trim your blocks so they are all the same size (about 17 1/4" square). Arrange your blocks by laying them on a flat surface (4 across and 4 down), alternating the first set of blocks with the second (see photo of the quilt). Move and rotate the blocks so that those in the first and third row start with a plain strip and the blocks in the second and fourth row start with a patterned strip. Move the blocks around until you are happy with the colour design and balance. Sew 4 blocks together across the row. Make a total of 4 rows, and then sew these rows together. Your completed quilt should measure approximately 67" (170cm) square - perfect for a picnic or to throw over the back of the couch. Now, how easy is that! You can find more of my patterns here. Thanks so much Becky, for having me on your blog! See, I told you she was awesome!! I want to make one for a picnic rug....Thanks Kate!!
This is such a fun, easy quilt to make and it uses the stack n slash quilt technique to create the blocks. The quilt was made with 20 x 10' squares of fabric. You can cut 10' squares from fabric you have on hand or you can make it from a Layer Cake. You do need to make sure that you put together 4 different colored fabrics in each block. Watch the video tutorial below or scroll down for the written instructions The quilt measures 46' x 54.5'. You can make it larger just by adding more blocks. You could
Hi everyone, welcome! As promised, I'm back with a tutorial on how to make your own improv blocks using stack and slash method. I used...
This is such a fun, easy quilt to make and it uses the stack n slash quilt technique to create the blocks. The quilt was made with 20 x 10' squares of fabric. You can cut 10' squares from fabric you have on hand or you can make it from a Layer Cake. You do need to make sure that you put together 4 different colored fabrics in each block. Watch the video tutorial below or scroll down for the written instructions The quilt measures 46' x 54.5'. You can make it larger just by adding more blocks. You could
This is such a fun, easy quilt to make and it uses the stack n slash quilt technique to create the blocks. The quilt was made with 20 x 10' squares of fabric. You can cut 10' squares from fabric you have on hand or you can make it from a Layer Cake. You do need to make sure that you put together 4 different colored fabrics in each block. Watch the video tutorial below or scroll down for the written instructions The quilt measures 46' x 54.5'. You can make it larger just by adding more blocks. You could
New quilt design using a free Modern Basket quilt block pattern and featuring Riley Blake's collection of solids, Confetti Cottons.
I don't know about you... But I'm loving the Featured Bloggers part of Quilt Class.. They are so so talented and I am amazed and in awe of what they come up with and share with us. I'm excited to introduce Kate from Kate Conklin Designs as the featured blogger for this week. Kate and her 'Extreme Quilting' Kate is extra special for so many reasons. She married my cousin Todd and we quickly became really great friends. A few years ago we got free tickets to a craft show in Sydney and decided we would go together.. AHHHH!! I don't think we had any idea what we were getting ourselves into ( i don't think our hubby's did either!!) .. Neither of us had been to a craft show before. We had both dabbled in different crafts.. But when we saw the fabrics available.... we fell in love. Kate and I bought a couple of fabric bundles each are decided we would make our first quilts. Since then our passion has snowballed from sewing, quilting and handmade projects to designing and writing patterns for Quilts, blogging and squeezing it all in around our families. Kate is amazingly talented, her quilt designs and patterns are brilliant, AND she ROCKS when it comes to her Stack and Slash technique.. So today, She is going to teach us how to make this Gorgeous Quilt!! Thanks Kate, Your the Greatest!! Hi, I'm Kate, I love the "Stack and Slash" method of creating quilts. For those of you who aren't familiar with this term, it's basically where you stack up some fabric, make some cuts, move them around and sew them back together. It's fun, easy and gives a great improvisational look without cutting lots of individual strips or wasting fabric. I have used this method in many of my quilt patterns. It's actually what started me writing patterns. I felt that the "Stack and Slash" method hadn't been fully explored in modern quilt patterns and I had some fun ideas that I could share with others. Some of my patterns which employ this method of cutting and piecing are... Sherbet Dreams Fussy Fairytales Wonky Donkey Sea Views Sierra's Forest There's a Square in There As you can see, this method is useful in creating very diverse quilts. I wanted to share with you a really easy 'Stack and Slash' tutorial. This isn't one of my original designs - I've seen similar quilts around on the Internet, but it is my own method. It uses 8 Fat quarters of patterned fabric and 8 Fat quarters of solid fabric, and it's super easy. Cut 8 rectangles, 20 1/2" wide x 17 1/2" tall of patterned fabric and another 8 rectangles (20 1/2" x 17 1/2") of a plain solid. Divide them into two piles. Each pile will contain 4 patterned rectangles and 4 solid rectangles. Take one pile and stack the fabric on top of each other, ensuring the edges are carefully aligned. Alternate the plain and patterned fabric, ironing as you go (this will help them stay together as you cut them). I've used Cloud 9's Nature Walk range and a natural solid. I've folded back the fabric for instructional purposes only. The fabric should be lying flat. Using your rotary cutter and ruler, cut through the stack of fabric 7 times, so you have 8 strips. My strips were approximately 2 1/2" wide. Cut on a slight angle - about 1/2 inch difference from top to bottom. You can vary the angle and the width of the strips. Leave the strip on the far left hand side as it is. Now go to the strip next to it and move the top fabric to the bottom of its pile leaving a solid strip at the top. From the third pile of strips, move the top 2 fabrics to the bottom of its pile. From the fourth pile, move the top 3 fabrics to the bottom. Continue in this manner until all of the fabrics are represented at the top (as shown in the picture). Sew the top strips together using a 1/4 inch seam. Press seams towards the patterned fabric. Then sew the next set of top strips together ... ...and so on until you have sewn 8 blocks of 8 strips. Take your other stack of 8 rectangles that you set aside earlier. Repeat the above instructions to make another 8 blocks, yielding 16 blocks altogether. Trim your blocks so they are all the same size (about 17 1/4" square). Arrange your blocks by laying them on a flat surface (4 across and 4 down), alternating the first set of blocks with the second (see photo of the quilt). Move and rotate the blocks so that those in the first and third row start with a plain strip and the blocks in the second and fourth row start with a patterned strip. Move the blocks around until you are happy with the colour design and balance. Sew 4 blocks together across the row. Make a total of 4 rows, and then sew these rows together. Your completed quilt should measure approximately 67" (170cm) square - perfect for a picnic or to throw over the back of the couch. Now, how easy is that! You can find more of my patterns here. Thanks so much Becky, for having me on your blog! See, I told you she was awesome!! I want to make one for a picnic rug....Thanks Kate!!
Another Patchwork class that I have attended at Kates, was the Stack and Whack. After choosing 5 complementary colours and then a contrast for the border, it was just a matter of cutting and sewing. It was a long day full of sewing but at the end of the day, I had pieced together the top of my Stack and Whack Quilt. It was then off to get assembled and quilted. The quilting was done by a local lady and came up wonderful.
I finished this Stack and Slash quilt top on Saturday but wanted to show it to the art quilters before I put it on the blog. I love this Marcia Derse fabric. This is my subdued group of it so I will be making another quilt with the more intense colors soon.
I love stack and slash method for making improv looking quilts. In case you wonder what I'm talking about, you can see my tutorial for t...
I don't know about you... But I'm loving the Featured Bloggers part of Quilt Class .. They are so so talented and I am amazed and in awe of...
This is such a fun, easy quilt to make and it uses the stack n slash quilt technique to create the blocks. The quilt was made with 20 x 10' squares of fabric. You can cut 10' squares from fabric you have on hand or you can make it from a Layer Cake. You do need to make sure that you put together 4 different colored fabrics in each block. Watch the video tutorial below or scroll down for the written instructions The quilt measures 46' x 54.5'. You can make it larger just by adding more blocks. You could
I hope you're not getting too tired of looking at these Stack and Whack stars. I love the unique look of each block. I was late for quilting group this week, because I had to pick up my oldest son from Driver's Education (eeeeeeek!) But I had time to stitch a little bit. I finished this block. There is a lot going on in this one. The center kind of looks like a flower, or some wavy fans. Then there is the curly wave - cool! And a big flower towards each tip. Lots to look at. What do you see? I also came close to finishing this one. You can sort of see what it's going to look like in this pic. A lot of people have asked to see the fabric I'm using for these blocks. It's called Madeline, by Blank Quilting. A lively fabric! Until next time...please visit the Curlicue Creations Shop...and have a super day! Get Creative! Jennifer Schifano Thomas
Recently I've been making a few quilts for the Aussie Hero Quilts project. The first one I made using the stack and slash technique to make star blocks. I took some photos of the method I used, although I did forget to photograph a couple of the steps. Here's what I did in case anyone is interested. I looked through my stash to find some fabrics that might be suitable for men. I needed 15 blocks for each quilt top so I needed 15 fat quarters, divided into three stacks of five. Some of the fabrics were repeated in two or three of the stacks so that there would be some continuity between the blocks. Working with the first stack of five fabrics, number them 1 to 5, with 1 being on the top and 5 on the bottom. Pin the numbers in the top left corner. Stack them back up on top of each other lining up the edges as best you can. They're not lined up in the photo but that's just so that you can see the numbers. I Draw a five pointed star on a 12" square piece of paper. If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you can see that I have numbered the lines from 1 to 5 as that will be the order that the seams are cut and pieced. Place the star template in the middle of the fabric stack. Fold the template on the line marked with number 1. Use a long quilter's ruler and a rotary cutter with a sharp blade, cut through the fabric stack about 1/4" away from the fold in the template. Leave the numbered stack as it is. Take the fabric from the top of the other stack and place it on the bottom of the stack. Take the top piece from each stack and sew them together with a 1/4" seam. Repeat with the next two and so on. Press the seams open! If you press the seams to one side, when you try to make the next cut you'll be trying to cut through 15 layers of fabric! When the seams are all pressed, stack up the blocks again. Try to line up the seams you've just sewn on top of each other, even if that means that the outside edges don't quite match up. Make sure the fabric with number 1 pinned to it is on the top of the stack and number 5 is on the bottom. Put the star template back on top, lining up the drawn line number 1 with the seam you just stitched. Fold the template at line number 2 and cut through the stacked fabrics 1/4" away from the fold. Here's where I missed taking a few photos. Leave the numbered half of the stack in the same order. Take the top two pieces from the un-numbered stack and place them on the bottom of the stack. Take the top piece from each stack and sew them together with a 1/4" seam. Repeat as before. Again press seams open and restack the blocks with number 1 on top and number 5 on the bottom. Repeat the process with a third cut and put the top three pieces of the un-numbered stack to the bottom before stitching. The fourth cut is shown below. You've probably already figured out that you'll need to put the top four pieces of the un-numbered stack to the bottom before stitching. This is the fifth and final cut.At this stage I spread out the five numbered pieces on a table and decided which of the nu-numbered pieces looked best with them, then stitched the final seams. The blocks look fairly messy at the moment with the edges all uneven. This is the back of the block showing all the seams pressed open. The size of the aussie hero quilts is 42" wide by 70"-75" long. If I use 14" blocks and use 3 across and five down, I end up with 42" x 70", so that works out well. I cut my star blocks down to 14 1/2", making sure that the star ended up roughly in the centre of the block. Here they are pinned on my design wall. There will be more in the next post, including what I did with the trimmings from the edges of the blocks.
Hi everyone, welcome! As promised, I'm back with a tutorial on how to make your own improv blocks using stack and slash method. I used...
