Have you made our basic block quilt and looking to something with a little more design but still easy? You're in luck! Try our chevron striped quilt top. This still utilizes the basic block pattern, but now with two fabrics stitched into one block. The way you lay it out, makes it look like a beautiful zigzag design. This quilt has a simple design, but the fabric you choose can really make it shine. In this demo, we just show you how to create the quilt top but putting it together is the same as in our block quilt tutorial starting here.
It's also a larger quilt, but you can easily adjust the size by adding or removing rows so that's it's the perfect size for you. This top comes out to about the size of a full-size quilt, 80" X 90". For the fabric backing, I would get at least 5 1/2 yards. If you use 44/45" fabric, you'll cut the 5 1/2 yards in half (or ask the fabric store to cut two pieces of 2 3/4"), stitch the two pieces together at the length. You'll end up with one big backing that should be about 88" X 99". If you get batting by the yard, this usually comes 90" in width, so I would purchase at least 2 3/4 yards of this. Of the binding, you can either make your own or use premade binding. You'll need at least 10 yards of binding, which should equal about 4 packages of 3 yards each.
Instead of stitching between each row when I'm doing my topstitch, I sew along the design of the zigzag. I really liked how this came out. If you make a quilt, please upload a picture as we'd love to see it.
Hi, when you say that it appears at the bottom of the screen, im assuming that it did download. The file you are downloading is a .zip file. You need to open the zip file and inside is the .pdf of the pattern.
I can’t download the pdf for the pattern. I click on the link and it comes up on the bottom of my screen. I click on it and it won’t come up. Please help me!!!
Hi I too am a newbie and I like this quilt very much, Think I might just have a go at this. I’m not new to sewing but I have never attempted anything like this before, so here goes. thanks for making it sound so easy. lol
make sure you are logged in, then below the video is the word download. Click on the words “Chevron Quilt Top Pattern”. This will download a .zip file. double click on the zip file and the .pdf of the pattern inside. Open the .pdf and print.
I am a new member and I can’t find how to print the “map” for the Chevron quilt as shown on the video.
Thanks.
M J
I made this quilt. It was very easy and I am very impressed with it and myself. First Quilt! The directions were wonderful and so easy to follow. I highly recommend this tutorial. As a matter of fact I just sent the link to my sister. And it took me less than a week working on it here and there.
excited about trying your pattern. I am going to be making a smaller version for a baby quilt!
You can do it! I’d love to see how it turns out. 🙂
I have only made 1 quilt and am looking to increase my skill level. Your video was very easy to follow and very clear. Looks like I have my next project!
This look so easy…..going to try it this week