I must be trying to make up for the lack of color outside where everything is covered with snow. My design wall is a delicious blend of reds and purples. I call this a Stairstep quilt. Do you have another name? It's not really a Rail Fence because those have three strips in each block, not two. I don't want to call it a Zigzag quilt because to me that suggests a Log Cabin, Streak of Lightning variation. Not that it really matters so much.
It measures 43" x 50." The strips were cut 4" wide. I'm writing the pattern as I work.
I'd say that really makes up for a lack of color in nature! This is wildly in your face. Cool!
ReplyDeleteHaha! That's one way to put it. Thanks for adding "cool."
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Rail fence can have any number of strips and I usually use 4 but I call this pattern a 2 rail Rail Fence in my tutorial.
ReplyDeleteWhat an incredible blast of color ! It is just lovely and very therapeutic this time of year. The simplicity of the pattern and the resonance of all that color.
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm teaching beginner quiltmaking, I offer this pattern as one of the four choices beginner quilters can try. I've named it "Stairs to Heaven," so I think your moniker works. Yours is a very happy-looking quilt, that's for sure!
ReplyDeleteI've made a two rail fence like this with narrower blocks. It's amazing how the eye travels along it, especially if one of the rails is the same colour. yours is great!
ReplyDeleteGreat! That one pink square really adds spark.
ReplyDeleteIt looks so perfect it looks like one of those pictures they make to show you what the quilt will look like later.
ReplyDeleteI love the red, in your face things. I don't do enough of them. Maybe this year, where my inspirational word is Albondigas!
glen: meatballs, how's that for inspiration?
I am lame at naming I would call it "I zag, you zig" but that's just me.
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Everything you post is so inspirational! This is just the pop of color I needed today. If I had just a little more time I'd sit right down and make one for myself. Thanks for the invite to your studio. That would be fun!
ReplyDelete"The modern zig"...it feel like a painting to me.
ReplyDeleteGreat colors :0)
Happy Sewing
Beautiful colors, Beautiful quilt!
ReplyDeleteKaren, I think you brighten up a gloomy day for me here too. You inspired me to get some of my strips together and get your strip block finished and in the mail. It's done and will be mailed tomorrow. Dar
ReplyDeleteOOOOH it is lovely. I think it reminds me of "Escalators" in those big city shopping centres and I think the 'steps' are moving. (I say big city as I live in a country town where no building is over 1 storey tall).
ReplyDeleteKeep it up.
Thanks for sharing.
Debra
Oh so cheery, my dearie!
ReplyDeleteKaren, What color!! I love it! I make a lot of quilts using this design and I call them stair step zig zag. When the zig zag rows go from side to side, I call them mountain zig zag.
ReplyDeleteI like this a lot! The one pink is great, but I didn't notice it till you pointed it out. The first thing I noticed was the long solid red zig (or zag?) -- and I like that a lot, too!
ReplyDeleteThese are totally my colors! Love it Karen!
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