Here is number 10 in the UP Greens series.

It’s about 92”x110”.

It’s probably going to be the simplest quilt I make in this UP Greens series of quilts.

Maybe.

I suppose by putting a rail fence on point with sashings and cornerstones, I made it not quite as simple as it could have been!

But I wanted to do something to dress it up a bit.

This one came about while I was in the shower and just thinking about the fabrics I have in this collection - if I may be so bold as to call my pile of second hand clothing items and sheets, curtains and duvet covers that - and I thought, “Make a rail fence”. To me, the rail fence is the simplest design that exists. I just wanted to use some of this up. Especially these pale greens and blue greens. They are so blah!

Not that you can you tell I’ve used anything at all.

However, this one is made up of a single 10” block made with 3 sizes of rails in the rail fence block - featuring black and white in the middle to give my eye some place to go.

I added the sashing because I thought my greens at this point were ugly and wanted to let myself have a break from all that less than prettiness. Plus I wanted to play around again with a cornerstone block.

I put the black in between the two white strips to kind of distract from the greens but most importantly, I wanted a point of focus. I knew that putting white on each side of the black would let my eye see the black first - then work out to the greens.

So I did.

The block looks like this.

I decided this time to work with lights and softer shades - I was looking for pieces that had more white in the green. Only lights. I wanted this one bright and light - not heavy and dark.

The blocks

That part worked. In the end, this one kind of reminds me of the beach as it lies on my living room floor.

I kind of like that “beachy” vibe I’m getting from it.

The black isn’t as black as it could be - but I had a nice large piece of it. In real life, especially when put up next to a pure black, it appears more of a dark charcoal/almost black. I don’t know what it used to be. Maybe a sheet - but it has a seam it so I know it is something second hand.

But for this design, it was fine. I had enough from the one piece to make all the strips and setting triangles, so there was no problem with varying shades of black causing distraction.

My husband suggested the name and I thought it was appropriate.

I am more pleased with it now that I am finished than I thought I would be.

I did have my doubts, as I was working on it, but I also knew I wasn’t investing a week or more of piecing into this one. In fact, it probably took longer to actually put this one together into a top than it did to make the blocks.

I did first make the center strips - using white and black. Then I cut out the next strips - going out - as I wanted them lighter in shade than the outer ones. After I had the middle ones all sewn and pressed, I brought them back to the table where the greens are and picked out fabrics that hopefully would read darker than the center. I still have a lot of lights.

I’ll trim off those little pieces probably when I go to bind.

I’ve got to get off this “on point” kick!

I know! I know! I tried to make this rail fence top with a straight horizontal setting, but couldn’t find one that I liked enough to make.

Anyway, this one is simple - and about as effective of a rail fence as I could do in an attempt to use up some of my light greens/green-blues. The brownish ones you see, in real life have a definitely green-ish tint to them.

Once again, I do not have the pattern finished but will get it done by the time I get it quilted up.

But to summarize:

The block is 10” square when finished. The inner three strips are cut 1.5” x 10.5”, the next ones on each side are cut 2”x10.5” and the outer ones are cut 2.5”x10.5”. The sashings are cut 3.5”x10.5” and the cornerstone 4 patches were strip pieced with 2” strips of white/black and white/light green. The side setting triangles were a 15.5” square cut 2x diagonally like an “x” and the corner setting triangles were an 8” square and then cut once diagonally. That’s the summary of the pattern. If you can follow it without pictures, you are set! If not, you will have to wait!

I’m off to go check out the next thing I want to do with this series!

Oh, wait…so now the UP Greens series looks like this: