Fence Rail Quilt Blocks

I am working on a quilt for a friend. She has had the fabric for years and hasn’t gotten to it. I said I would help, so I’ve been working on it on and off during this time that the kids have been gone. A couple hours a day. It has been easy, just strips. Lots and lots of strips. Lots.

There were 51 strips of each of 4 fabrics, equaling 204 strips. I used my serger, which made it go faster than on the sewing machine, to attach the strips together into 51 sections. Then I cut the strip sets apart and reconnected them to create the main blocks of the quilt. I finished putting the last of the 90 blocks together just a bit ago. Now I have to trim them before I piece the quilt top. The finished quilt will be a queen size. Each block is about 10″ across. The quilt will have 10 rows of 9 blocks each.

She picked fabrics with great contrast. It is so pretty. Here are 9 of the blocks laid together.

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3 Responses to “ Fence Rail Quilt Blocks ”

  1. What a beautiful quilt! The colors she chose are a perfect match for each other.

  2. I love the colors. That is something I would pick out - I don’t quilt though so it wouldn’t get made around here either unless I paid someone to do it for me.

  3. That is a beautiful quilt. :)

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