1” Craziness

Stairs

(Day 20 of a 31 Day Series)
I have one more “zig zag” design to share with you this week.

If you slightly rotate the “zig zag” design you’ll end up with some stairs.
In the example I followed the edges of the blocks to form the stairs. I only echoed the design once in the middle of the other blocks. I think it would look fabulous with 2-3 echoes in between the main blocks. This design does require a lot of pivoting so I might rethink that idea if this were a queen size quilt.
~ Norma

Zig Zag

(Day 16 of a 31 Day Series)
  Fill the whole quilt, quilt it in rows, do it in groups of two a la Charlie brown’s sweater, or in groups of three, wide and tall, or short and narrow. Whatever floats your boat. This simple graphic quilting pattern adds a lot of WOW to a quilt. Obviously, you can do this design on a Zig Zag quilt by echoing the block lines.
I like it! It adds movement to a quilt, up and down. Or turn it on it’s side for left to right movement. This one requires a lot of pivoting. A sewing machine with a knee lift sure comes in handy right about now :) You only need to mark your first zig zag, then use your guide bar or edge of your foot to echo your previous line. Marking is a breeze if you use existing points on your quilt (like the corners of blocks) to mark your first row.
Had you thought to use this design on a non-zig zag quilt?
~ Norma