Needs to be said

Actually, it needs to be shouted from the rooftops, but this will have to do.

This is a chevron

 =

This is NOT a chevron

Neither is this,*

or this,*

or this.*

Nice try, so close...but still
NOT a chevron.*
These are *ZIG ZAG* patterns.



ZIG ZAG!

These ARE chevrons -

Heck, even this configuration is closer to actually being a true chevron than a ziz zag.

Want to know how you can discern the difference quickly?  Does your material design or quilt block layout look like this? (notice the Private, Corporal, and Sergeant bars)

Chevron!


I don't care what some quilt pattern 'creator' huckster boob calls their design, and I do not give a tinker's doggone for the naming convention of a fabric company.  A zig zag is a never-ending series of lines - think Charlie Brown's sweater.  True chevrons are PAIRS of lines, forming a 'v', whether inverted or 'right way up'.


There, I almost feel better, but not happy knowing there will still be SO MANY people calling a zig zag patchwork quilt a "chevron-something-or-other" when it's not correct.  Help me spread the word, to correct the misuse of a word.

Whaddaya say?