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Friday
28Dec2007

Zig Zag Quilt: Quilting and Binding

Make your quilt sandwich (with the Zoo fabric on the back)

You'll be stitching in the ditch along the edges of the orange and blue zig zags and also in a zig zag pattern across the white strip section.

Mark the zig zag across the white strip with a hera marker or colored chalk and a ruler, mimicking the larger zig zags.

Zig-Zag-Quilt-Quilted 

After it's quilted  trim and square off the whole sandwich and bind with the Tangerine Kona Cotton. (If you need a refresher course on double fold binding check out my Wool Blanket tutorial.)

zigzagquiltbeauty.jpg 

Reader Comments (8)

This quilt is beautiful!!

I love the quilt journal entries of this blog. They're the best.
December 29, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterHoopey
what at great simple blanket that can be sized for your needs. The triangle method works really well, less fuss and much more accurate than trying to sew them the other way
December 30, 2007 | Unregistered Commentermari
This is the most beautiful little quilt! I love the colors and the fabrics you chose. I also love the zig zag pattern, it looks like it would be fun to put together. . . thanks for sharing! I've got to try it!
January 8, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterjuliann
Just adorable! I had to make it right away! And of course I copied your colors. Wish I had the exact fabrics! LOL! It's not quilted yet, but it looks so cute. Thank you for the pattern.
March 11, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMichele
I love this. I wanted to make one for the next baby I need one for but I decided to make one for my OWN baby instead. So I'm making it for a twin size bed. A little different too. If you want to see what I'm working on I'm blogging every step. I'm a little spastic with projects like this, there is no telling what I'll end up with! haha.

Thanks so much for posting this and the directions. I am in LOVE with this zig zag pattern.
September 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterErin K
I was wondering about your instructions to stitch in the ditch for the quilting because really there is no true ditch since the seams are pressed open. Traditionally, when you stitch in the ditch, the seams are pressed to one side, making a ditch. Won't stitching in the ditch with the seams pressed open weaken the seams of all the pieced blocks?
February 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterVeronica
Hi Veronica,
You can do your quilting "next to the ditch" in this case, or you can press your seams to the side if you're worried about weak seams. So far Molly's quilt seems to be holding up!
February 25, 2009 | Registered Commenterpurl bee
I am in the midst this project and was 'worried' about the blocks of matching fabric touching each other, but now that I'm revisiting the colour pictures online I see that your's does that too -- and it looks great. I may have to make several quilts in various colour ways as I'm loving the zigs zags so much.
July 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterNiki

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