All About Rail Fence Quilt Patterns

About rail fence quilt patterns

Rail fence quilt patterns are a type of cut-and-sew block pattern. Depending on your preferences, you can create a simple rail fence quilt by taking three colors that complement or are contrasting to each other.

For instance, you can take strips of yellow, white and brown measuring 2.5 inches in breadth and 7 inches in length each. Make sure that you have at least 35 strips for each color. To give you a pattern of about 35 blocks, each with a measurement of 6 inches in breadth, sew the trips having the yellow on top, followed by white and then brown. Afterwards, position 5 blocks in such a way that you will come up with one block having vertical yellow, white and brown strips, plus another having horizontal yellow, white, and brown strips. Next, sew this first row onto the rail fence quilt. You may then start with a horizontal strip block followed by a vertical one to create the next row of the pattern. After you have made seven such rows, join them all together to finish your rail fence quilt.

3-D rail fence quilt patterns

Sew the blocks with strips along with plain blocks of the same size to create a 3-D rail fence quilt pattern. Each alternate block should have a strip block with a plain block right next to it. To finish a row, sew together either 5 or 6 blocks. Make as many more rows as you wish to put together a 3-D rail fence quilt in the size you desire.

Split rail fence quilt patterns

In this type of pattern, horizontal strips are carefully sewn onto a block having vertical strips with two alternating colors, such as red and blue. Afterwards, two horizontal strips having the same distance from the edge and between each other are sewn on to create the effect of a split rail fence quilt pattern. The next block would need to have three such strips attached to them, and alternating blocks having 2 and 3 horizontal blocks are then sewn to each other to complete the split rail fence quilt pattern.