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WEEK 1 – RAIL FENCE QUILT – GETTING STARTED – CHECKLIST

CHECKLIST
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YouTube Video – Week 1 – Part A – Rail Fence Quilt – Preparing Your Fabric 
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YouTube Video – Week 1 – Part B – Rail Fence Quilt – How to Group Your Fabric

 
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YouTube Video – Week 1 – Part C – Rail Fence Quilt – Sewing Your Strips Together

 
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Week 1 – Rail Fence Quilt – Getting Started

 
PREPARE

Gather your tools and supplies

 
TASK: PREPARE FABRIC OFF THE BOLT

Iron your fabric

 
 

Cut 2½” strips

 
 

Iron out the manufacturers fold in all your strips

 
TASK: PREPARE JELLY ROLLS

Iron out the manufacturers fold in all your strips

 
 

Iron kinked beginnings and ends, and anywhere else that may need it

 
TASK: GROUP YOUR FABRIC

Group your fabric into groups of four

 
 

Carefully fold your fabrics to prepare to sew together

 
TASK: SEW TOGETHER

Carefully unfold a group of four 2½” strips

 
 

Attach a “Place number holder” on it with the arrow facing down onto your first strip

 
 

Take the second strip and pin together, sew all the way along

 
 

Set your stitches, finger press the seam up, press the seam

 
 

Take your next strip, pin and sew from the bottom

 
 

Repeat these steps until all four strips are sewn together, remembering to alternate the direction that you sew

 
 

Repeat for all groups of four 2½” strips

 

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