An easy rail fence quilt

The rail fence quilt is an easy beginners quilt or a quilt that you make when you don't have enough brain power to tackle anything complicated.  You can do this pattern in a fast strip method where you will sew three 40" long strips together and sub cut the units, as was done in the first and third quilt shown below. Or if you have various scraps you can just sew three or four sets together to make a unit.  The second quilt was done using this method in sets of three.  For the unity I sewed on the additional cream fabric to form the zig zag across the quilt.  

It just so happens that all three of these quilts are using flannel.  I don't usually buy flannel, but my daughter wanted to make a quilt of her own.  She wanted an alternating four patch rag quilt. This is where you sew the blocks together with batting between each block and the seams that are made are slit every half inch. So when you wash it the material in the seams get shaggy.  Once she was done her quilt I cut up all the fabric into strips to make this quilt.  The quilt measures 42" x 60".

This next quilt was various flannel scraps that a friend was done with, from various quilts she had made and the cream fabric was also what was left.  I had just enough to make the zig zag strips in a cream and the border in another cream.  These strips are 1" each and measures 42" x 58".

And this last one was made about a year after the first one when my son decided that he should also make a quilt like his sister.  Again after he had finished I cut up the fabric into strips to make this one.  Three quilts all made using the same pattern and even the same layout, but all individual with their own feel to them.  I've seen these in almost every colour combination you could think of.  As I said earlier this is the type of quilt that beginners usually start with.