Friday, August 1, 2014

Zig Zag Happy Birthday!

I made a quilt for my sweet DIL for her birthday. She likes chevron patterns, so I thought I would make her a chevron quilt.

I tried out the "easy zig zag" quilt ....you can find a great tutorial over at Crazy Mom Quilts. I didn't sew the long strips together,though,  I used 3" x 5 1/2 " blocks, so I could lay out the whole pattern first. I didnt have a lot of extra fabric, so had to do some shuffling.

This one is large, about 90" x 90"!  That was a bit challenging to quilt on my machine, but I just used straight lines, echoing the zig zags, so it wasn't a lot of turning the whole thing around anyway.

I know that usually the edges are cut off so the pattern extends all the way across, but I wanted to make this one larger, and didnt have more of the yellow patterned fabric, so added setting triangles and borders.
Each strip across is one fat quarter! I had been gathering different yellow print fat quarters for awhile, so there was a variety of them, but not extra yardage.

As usual, I didnt quite have enough of my backing fabric, so added some extra yellow, and the scraps from the front, but I think it really adds interest to the back anyway.

I gave it to her for her birthday, and I think she really liked it, and used it for her guests bed that very weekend! I love when a quilt gets put to use!

So that is my finish! Linking up to TGIFF....this week over at Quokka Quilts...
                                                     
And "Finish it up Friday" at Crazy Mom Quilts.

6 comments:

  1. Very nice and loved as it was put right to use - gotta love that!

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  2. GREAT colours Flo! I'm seeing a yellow and grey quilt in my future!!! Yellow is my blind spot when it comes to buying fabric - there's very little in my stash. I don't know why, I don't dislike it. I just never seem to buy it!

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  3. Such a striking quilt. The setting triangles makes this pattern your own.

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  4. Very very cool and right on trend at the moment with the craze for chevrons - super colour scheme too!

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  5. Lovely quilt. I really like how the chevrons appear to "float".

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