Stack n Whack Quilt Top Using a Layer Cake - Episode 1 

Wow! So many complaints ya'll need to chill. I think she did great!

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.

I would love to make this quilt as my last big quilt for my 85th birthday in August.

Thanks for sharing❤Music is awesome too!! Nice project for this newbie quilter.

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.

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!

Pretty fabric for this, and yes great price!! Thank you for sharing!!

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!

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.

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 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 :)

Wow! What a great idea. I look forward to part 2! Thank you.

Love a good stack 'n whack. Thanks for sharing!

I always called this Stack n Slash. It’s so much fun to do!

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.

Lovely blocks. Thank you. Looking for part 2 now 😊

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

I love that layer cake! lovely colors!

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).

stack and whack was layering 8 repeats exactly so when you cut them they repeated the design on your block. That was the original.

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.

Very cute!!!

That fabric is gorgeous!

Love this! Thank you for a Great Video. ❤

I chain stitch my blocks so I don't have to cut so many thread ends. I love this idea!

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.

Very nice and looks easy too!

Check out kaleidoscope quilts. Stack n Whack is another term for them.

Very pretty layer cake prints & must have been fun sewing!

I love this print. Used it in a jelly roll for a quilt!

Thank you, you made it so simple to understand.

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.

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I appreciate the video

These would be perfect for making pillows too.

Pretty fabrics 💖

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

Thanks for sharing

What ever it’s called, I like it!

I like the pinked edges

Dislike the music. Will check out the follow up video. Interested in your process

can't wait to try this! thank you!!!!

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!

Indiana? My daughter and husband live there. I love indiana and KY. Salem donuts, the best.

Loved the tutorial and the music the only thing it was a bit blurry

Gotta love that major sale!!

You could turn blocks different angles

Please watch where your camera is placed. Your bottom is off, I can’t see all of the fabric

Im not fond of some of the patterns in the fabric but the idea is fun

Hello from North Carolina 💝

Me too

You need to make sure you do not have two of the same print together in the original stack for this to work!

I wish fabric companies would stop pinking the edges!

I am loving this demo but Where is episode 3? Please I can't find it.

Subscribed to your channel.😊

What brand of rotary cutter are you using? So cute... Love stack and whack...

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?

They will be 9 1/2” x 10” won’t they if yo sewed them to each other with 1/4” seams

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.

Great video…..

Your fabric is so cheap! Here in Australia, a layer cake starts at $70 for no name brands, Kaffe Fassat is $100.

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.

Plz tell us how can we buy this using quail in this video

Did you place the duplicate fabrics on the bottom too?

ps. great job

What is the handle on your ruler?

love the music what is that

What is the difference between stack ‘n whack and stack ‘n slash?

What.brand of rotary cutter are you using here?

Everything is off centre and blurry with the camera .. not very helpful

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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.

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.

This video is very blurry and hard to watch

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To. Much flowers, please showcase some other type of fabric besides flowers.

Your video is a bit fussy to look at.

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.

the video is bad.......can't see too good

Too much of the same thing. Cutting the whole stack then sewing the whole stack. Sorry, found it boring.

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