Chevron Quilts – Old and New
There are many many others, but here are some chevron or zig-zag quilts I’ve seen lately. A few, like the first two here, are older than you might guess.
This one is called simply Zig Zag Pattern has been dated as 1901-1929. It was made by Viola Haeline Dollar Lake in Lumber City, Georgia. I found it on the Quilt Index site.
I also found this even older two color example, dated as 1850-1875, with vertical zig zags, AKA Streak of Lightning.
Here are four more contemporary examples. The modern multicolor quilt arrived in my mailbox as part of a blog giveaway I had won. It’s the cover quilt from the November/December issue of Quilty. Colorful Chevrons by Christa Watson (image from the Quilty site)
The Scrappy Chevron Picnic quilt from the Moda Bakeshop blog combines rows of chevrons with brick-like sections.
The last two are closest to our lotto blocks this month. Amy from Angry Chicken shared this sunset zig zag quilt made for her by her Grammie.
I wanted to include this one because the color-way is similar to ours. It was made for a charity auction by Robin Kaspar. I found it on a quilting forum (sorry, no link).
Let’s Blog about Quilting Goals
Do you make quilting resolutions? Have a bucket list of quilts to make or techniques to learn? Set specific quilting goals? Do you have a list of quilts you plan to make in 2014 or UFOs you plan to finish?
Blog about your quilting plans for 2014 and share a link here.
If, like me, you’re not one for lists and schedules when it comes to quilting, join me in challenging yourself to set ONE quilting goal for 2014.
Advice on resizing the “stripes” block?
I have a lovely jelly roll I got from Tuesday Morning and a nice coordinating batik that I realized would be beautiful made with the December block. The strips are 2.5 inches and I don’t want to cut them down.
By my calculations this gives me a block that finishes with a 12 inch finished height (12.5 unfinished). I suck at figuring out proportions, so would welcome suggestions on what width to cut. It seems like it should be 9.5 for a 9×12 finished block work? The strips are 43″ wide. I could get one more unit per strip if I cut 8.5.
OK to submit extras in Orphans?
Is it OK to submit more than 9 blocks in the Orphans draw?
‘Tis the Season to be Distracted
Here’s the proof that I can screw up even the easiest block. Or maybe it’s just an example of how easily distracted I am. 🙂
Whether this was a dyslexic thing or a distracted by the holidays thing, it happened. And I laughed so hard at myself when it did. And then I took a picture, because it really is so unbelievable.
So now you know why I am always asking you all to go to the at-a-glance page to make sure I haven’t goofed when adding your blocks to the list …
the 2014 Cotton Robin
Calling all Robineers!
I’m starting up a new round of the Cotton Robin and I’m wondering who might want to join in for the 2014 event? We would probably have the first block due around February 1 or so…
“Rules” will be pretty much the same, I think, but I’m happy to listen to suggestions. New players are welcome if they have some swapping history and enough experience to work without a pattern!
Details and the 2013 “reveal” can be found at http://cottonrobin.blogspot.com — there have been several Block Lotto participants in the two years I’ve done this.
Cheers!
Julie W
A Modern Setting Idea for Stripes blocks
Do you see what I see?
When I saw Victoria Findley Wolfe’s blog post about her quilt, Quilter’s Cairns–it’s in the February issue of APQ–I immediately saw how you could do something very similar, starting with a stack of scrappy Stripes blocks.
Victoria’s Quiter’s Cairn quilt
Let’s Blog about Food
Table setting from Housebeautiful.com
‘Tis the season for eating, so let’s blog about food in December. Enter the link to your food-related blog post in the Linky Tool below.
Some ideas for topics:
- Share a favorite cookie (or other) recipe
- Write about food you love (or hate)
- Blog about a family or regional food tradition
- Review a local restaurant
- Share a cooking disaster story … or a near-disaster with a happy ending
- Share your special occasion (or every day table setting)
- Make a table runner, placemats, pot holders or napkins and blog about them
Happy Thanksgiving
Image from The Graphics Fairy
There is a very old Art Buchwald column in which he explains Thanksgiving to the French. I have fond memories of reading it each year in the International Herald Tribune when I lived in France, several decades ago. You can read the whole thing here, but near the end he concludes:
And so, on the fourth Thursday in November, American families sit down at a large table brimming with tasty dishes and, for the only time during the year, eat better than the French do.
If you are celebrating today, I hope that will be true for you. Bon appetite!
loved the tall stars…..
Last summer, I was trying to make sail boats using the stack and whack method. At the same time we were making the tall stars here at lotto. I adored them and when I put them with the sail boats, I thought….cool. So I made 9 more this quilt.