Quilt Pattern: Zig-Zag

For a showy all-over pattern choose the Zig Zag, using two colors, or a riot or all colors. This pattern, two rows set together, finishing about five inches wide also makes a wonderful border where one wishes to add considerably to the area of some patchwork quilt.

Borders are so lovely on quilts that it is often well to plan the center part of a quilt small, using first a plain and then a pieced border, with perhaps a plain strip again to finish all. The triangles are sewed together into long strips of desired length for the width of quilt, then the long strips sewed together as shown in the sketch.

Material Estimate: If all cloth is cut a seam larger than the patterns mark, each row requires 30 large triangles, half light, half dark, and two small triangles for the ends. Thirty-four rows this wide make a quilt about 80 inches wide by 90 inches long. It requires 4 1/2 yards light and 4 1/2 yards dark.