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One-Block Wonders: One Fabric, One Shape, One-of-a-Kind Quilts cover

One-Block Wonders: One Fabric, One Shape, One-of-a-Kind Quilts

Maxine Rosenthal

One Block Wonder & Stack-n-Whack

Rosenthal coined the "One Block Wonder" technique covered here: stacking multiple layers of one large-repeat fabric, cutting them simultaneously into identical hexagons, and reassembling the pieces so the print forms unplanned, kaleidoscope-like patterns. The result depends entirely on the fabric's print repeat, not on a fixed pattern. A distinctive, almost accidental-looking design method built around a single fabric bolt.

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Reynolds coined "Stack-n-Whack" — her own take on cutting stacked, identical layers from a repeat-print fabric into kaleidoscope-style pieces, developed independently from and around the same time as Rosenthal's One Block Wonder method. The two techniques are close cousins with genuinely different cutting and assembly conventions, so this is a real second angle on the idea, not a duplicate. Good pairing for a quilter who wants to compare both named methods.

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