Rail Fence Quilt Pattern:

Quilting History and Industry:

Quilting is an age old method where pieces of cloth were joined to make square or rectangular blocks which were then sewn together mostly by hand, to get a quilt for those cold winter days and nights. Quilts were made of scrap or rags and old clothing that were not in use. Women of the household took up quilting to while their free time and also make something useful for the home. Quilts, traditionally, had no set pattern. Since the available cloth was made into a quilt over a long period of time, the quilt was usually a collage of different colors and prints. When fashion began to set in, quilts now began to be made as made to order. Cloth was specially matched and began to be bought so that it could be cut up and used for making quilts. Hand sewing gave way to machine sewn quilts, which had its takers not just in villages but towns and cities as well.

Rail fence quilt pattern:

The rail fence quilt pattern is a cut and sew block pattern. To make a simple rail fence quilt pattern, you can use say three colors that either complement or are in contrast to each other depending on your tastes. Take strips of red, white and blue colors that measure two and a half inch in breadth and about seven inches in length each. You need to take at least 35 strips of each color. Sew the strips with red on top, then white and then blue. This will now give you 35 blocks each about 6 inches broad. Place 5 blocks in such a manner that you have one block with vertical red, white and blue strips and one block with horizontal red, white and blue strips. Sew the first row of the rail fence quilt. For the next row of the rail fence quilt pattern, start with a horizontal strips block and then a vertical one. Make seven such rows for the rail fence quilt pattern. Join all the rows to make a rail fence quilt.

3-D rail fence quilt pattern:

For a 3-D rail fence quilt pattern, the blocks with strips are sewn along to plain blocks of the same size, such that every alternate block of the 3-D rail fence pattern is a strip block and a plain block next to it. Sew either five or six blocks together to make a row. Make many more such rows to sew a 3-D rail fence quilt to the size of your choice.

Split rail fence quilt pattern:

In the split rail fence quilt pattern, horizontal strips are sewn on to a block that has vertical strips of two alternating colors. Two horizontal strips at the same distance from the edge and themselves are sewn on to give the split rail fence quilt pattern effect. The next block has three such strips sewn on to them. Alternating blocks with two and three horizontal blocks are then sewn together for the split rail fence quilt pattern.

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