Stack N Whack - #7 November

I have done a 60 degree Stack N Whack quilt before and I didn't have any issues with it.  When I saw the fabric that I received in my brown bag exchange for the night guild, I thought the flower fabric would lend itself well to a Stack N Whack.

I do believe the Stack N Whack blocks themselves look good.

I started to run into issues when I started doing the border though.  It required more triangles.  That, in and of itself, is fine.  Bias did become an issue though.

When a Stack N Whack is created, the fabric is ripped or cut parallel to the selvege rather than perpendicular as with most cuts in quilting.  This puts the bias somewhere different than if you just cut perpendicular to the selvege.

The Stack N Whack blocks worked great and stretched everywhere they were supposed to stretch.  In at attempt to conserve fabric, I cut the border triangles out of strips of fabric that were cut perpendicular to the selvege.  They did not stretch the same at all.  I ended up with a quilt that acted like a cupcake - big, full, and fluffy in the center; tight and rigid on the border.  It was wicked.

The center of the quilt was very pink and Dale believed that it was an anomoly.  In order to tone it down, I quilted the center heavily around the fussy cut flower bouquet.  It dulled up the pink all right because the thread was black and red varigated.