Snapshot sunday- Unisex Zig Zag.

I planned this out a couple of months ago and decided indulge myself and work on it today. I intended to use the half triangle square method to make the quilt but stumbled across this tutorial last week and decided to give it a ago. Its a fabulously quick way to put together a zig zag quilt, although a little bit of wastage is involved as you have to cut off the "points" to square up the quilt.

I changed the measurements slightly from the tutorial- instead of 3" strips I cut mine 3.5" and then sliced them into 6.5" blocks (compared to the 5.5" in the tute). I got 6 blocks per strip (compared to their 7). At the moment the quilt measures 30"x 42" and this size would make a nice bassinet or pram blanket. To make it larger you could simply add a border or just keep adding zig zags!
An even simpler and quick way to build a quilt like this would be to use a jelly roll. A jelly roll has 2 strips of each fabric, so you could get a complete "zig zag" from each fabric in the roll. Jelly roll strips are only 2.5"- which after joining would create 9 x 4.5" blocks. Hmmmm

it would look faboulous in a Kona solids jelly roll......