Old 05-17-2011, 10:39 AM
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katie1
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I found a pretty variation of a rail fence quilt but it doesn't give the cutting directions or the dimensions of each component rail before it is pieced. I"ll attach a picture and I'm hoping some one with experience can take a look at it and tell me the size of each rail and rotary cutting instructions. If you're really into the analysis, could you also provide the amount of fabric by color to purchase as well? Also, can somebody pick out from the picture which rails are what color - I don't see as many fabrics in the picture as are listed. Apart viewing the picture, this is all I know: the throw size is 46 1/2"x64 1/2". The block size is 12" and it is in a 4x6 layout. (The math here doesn't seem to quite work out because four 12" would be 48" before the borders). I have a list of suggested fabric colors for it, but I honestly can't see this many different fabrics in the illustration. The list is as follows: 3 white prints- 3/8 yd ea; 3 green prints - 3/8 yd ea; 4 pink prints - 3/8 yd each; brown print (I would do maroon personally) - 1/2 yd; pink stripe - 3/4 yard; green print #4 -1/2 yard; white print #4 - 3/4 yard; backing 3 yards. If someone could analyze this and tell me how many fabrics to buy of how many colors and the yardage (the number of different fabrics may be too many in the original directions), list out the fabrics in each of the 2 block types like BLOCK A HORIZONTAL RAIL #1, HORIZONTAL RAIL #2 etc. ; BLOCK B smail rail #1, small rail #2, etc. : and then how big to cut each component, preferably for a 12" block. I'd like to make a 8 block by 12 block quillt, but if you want to stick with the throw size, I can convert to a larger quilt. I just can't figure out the size to cut the rails, and just don't see this many different fabrics in the picture. In Block A - I see 3 pink rails and the 1 maroon or as they call it brown rail, & 2 white rails. In Block B with the smaller rails I see 3 green rails and 3 pink rails. Perhaps the easiest way to work it out would be for Block A with the large rails to assume that there are six different fabrics. Then Block B with the smaller rails assume there are 3 green fabrics and 3 pink fabrics. Then an inner brown or maroon border, a green border, a white border, then binding. Thanks to anyone who can help. This exercise will help me in the future to analyze a quilt.
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