Black Rail Fence Variation

 

When I conceived this quilt I knew I was not going to make traditional rail-fence style blocks. I knew I wanted to make long zig-zags, like this quilt, River of Light, that I made back in 2023.

My plan was to have the zig-zags that go from corner to corner be bright prints on black, and on either side of them will be brights on white and then I want ever other zig to be whites on black, and then another zig of black, and then the brights on whites, etc, which you can sort of see in the photo above.

Now, when you make strips for this quilt, you pair a light with a dark, but in order to divide the white zigs into colored ones and black on white ones, you have ate be a bit sneaky. Which of course you all know I love to do. So notice the fabrics in the zig-zags above - they are not all the same fabric. My goal (in pretty much every quilt I do) is to make you LOOK and notice things. I try to use different fabrics that LOOK the same but aren't.

Anyway, that's the plan.

As you can see, I have a lot of work to do.