About Billie Lauder:
Billie has been teaching Quiltmaking since 1976. A third generation
quilter, she has inherited her love of quilts from her grandmother
and mother and has the ability to make quiltmaking easy and understandable
for every level of quilter. Her teaching techniques and quilts have
also been featured on seventeen episodes of the Home & Garden
Television Networks series Simply Quilts! hosted by Alex
Anderson. Billie is teaching various quiltmaking techniques across
the United States for quilt guilds, shops and other organizations
and is a certified teacher in Art and Anthropology.
What is a Rail Fence Quilt?
A Rail Fence Quilt is probably one of the easiest quilts to make.
Each block is made from three 2" x 5" rectangles sewn together to
make the basic block - one a light value, one a medium value and
one a dark value. When you keep making the blocks and follow the
basic pattern layout to sew the blocks together you create your
quilt top. The pattern moves - there are flows of light and dark
valued fabrics moving diagonally across the quilt. This flow is
to represent an old fashioned type of wooden fence that was made
of three rails that are placed at diagonals to each other. These
fences still exist and you can see from the illustration how it
did inspire the basic pattern.
Table of Contents:
| What is a Rail Fence Quilt? |
4 |
| What size quilt should I make? |
4 |
| Yardage |
4 |
| Fabric Chart |
5 |
| Do you want to use up scraps
of fabric? |
6 |
| How do you use the
fabric chart? |
6 |
| Rail Fence Size Chart |
7 |
| Supplies I must have |
8 |
| How do I? |
8 |
| Cutting fabrics |
8 |
| Quilting |
8 |
| Borders |
8 |
| Binding |
8 |
| Basic Rail Fence
construction |
9 |
| Quilts: |
|
| Nap size quilt |
9 |
| Pinwheel Quilt |
13 |
| Roller Coaster Quilt |
14 |
| You Have To Have Heart Quilt |
17 |
| Redwork Quilt |
18 |
| Rainbow Round the Quilt |
19 |
| 9/11 Flag Quilt |
22 |
| It had to happen |
23 |
| All Lights Quilt |
24 |
| Trip Around the World
Quilt |
25 |
| Love Around the
World Quilt |
26 |
| Many Hearts |
27 |
| Wedding or Reunion Quilt |
28 |
| Interlocking Cubes
|
29 |
| Over and Under Quilt - a woven
variation |
30 |
| Galaxy Quilt |
31 |
| Interlock Quilt |
32 |
| Knots Quilt |
33 |
| Chain Stitch Quilt |
34 |
| Marzapan Quilt |
35 |
| 1 - 2 - 3 Quilt |
36 |
| Quilt Layout Chart |
37 |
| Rail Fence Quilt Graph |
38
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| Rail Fence Quilt On Point Graph |
39 |
| Basic Borders |
40 |
| Biography and other things |
41 |
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