Card Trick

I never could win at playing cards, not even the kids' games! I just smiled as I held a zillion cards in my hand as someone banged their last card down on the table and won. Big sigh.

But, I sure can sew Card Tricks. That's the name of the block today and about 20 years ago I simplified the piecing from a lot of triangles to squares and rectangles.

Here is the block with those triangles from my 2007 perpetual calendar. Isn't this a fun way that Patricia Bryant staged this?

Card Trick by Patricia Bryant of Australia

Here is one made by someone who purchased my No Tricky Card Trick pattern. As you can see, there are not a lot of triangles. This is the way the calendar block appears.

No Tricky Card Trick block by Jocelyne Normandin

Here's a quilt I made several years ago using my larger block (12-3/4") It was fun to dig into my Kaffe Fassett scrap piles. If you look at this another way, you can see several hearts, can't you?

No Tricky Card Trick (12-3/4" blocks)

The calendar block is 9" (the publishers didn't want a weird 12-3/4" block in there). But, if all your blocks are 12-3/4" it doesn't matter, does it?