I select quilt blocks and color palettes for the charity quilts that the Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild makes as a group, and I chose this traditional Zig Zag Path block for our next group quilt. I found a tutorial online already, but it was short on details and didn't give much room for error in the HSTs, so I've created a new tutorial here. The block is 12.5 inches unfinished.
Cutting List
Background (gray in photo)
- Three 5-x-5" squares
- Two 5-x-5" squares
- One 4.5" square (set this aside until the final assembly)
- Three 5-x-5" squares
- Draw a diagonal line from one corner to the other on the 3 background squares and 1 Color A square.
- Pair up the squares as follows:
- two gray + two Color B
- one gray + one Color A
- one Color A + one Color B
- Sew 1/4" away from both sides of the diagonal line on each block pair.
- Cut on the line and press toward the darker fabric. You should have 8 half-square triangles.
- Trim each HST to 4.5-x-4.5".
- Arrange the HSTs and the remaining Color A square according to the photo above.
- Assemble blocks into rows, pressing the seams in opposite directions on each row so that they will nest together.
- Sew the rows together, and press seams open.
- The block should be 12.5-x-12.5".
Multiple blocks arranged together create a spiraling effect.
