St Patrick's Day Rails
Finished community quilt, shared by Candlewick Assembly, 6 September 2026
by Candlewick Assembly
St Patrick's Day Rails by Candlewick Assembly is a finished quilt in the Quiltler community: 82" × 94" (about a full quilt), 168 blocks, 168 pieces and 2 fabrics on a straight grid, plus sashing and a border, shared 6 September 2026.
At a glance
- Finished size
- 82" × 94" (about a full quilt)
- Blocks
- 168
- Pieces
- 168
- Fabrics
- 2
- Sashing
- Yes
- Border
- Yes
About this quilt
St Patrick's Day Rails lays a queen-size St Patrick's Day field of Split Rail blocks in plum velvet and ribbon gold, divided by candle cream. Seven ten-inch blocks sit across and eight down, with two-inch cream sashing, a two-inch gold inner border and a three-and-a-half-inch plum outer. Finished size is 93 by 105 inches.
Each Split Rail is three equal strips — plum, gold, plum — joined along the long edges and squared to ten inches. Press into the gold so the plum rails stay wide. Set neighbouring blocks at right angles so the gold bars step from across to upright, and the plum reads as one dark weave behind the cream paths.
Cream is the grid; gold answers the centre stripe; plum is the St Patrick's Day frame. A sewist who keeps the three rails even will manage this queen. It belongs on a queen bed for St Patrick's Day, or over the piano bench while someone practises downstairs. The pack lists yardage for cream, gold and plum, cutting for the ten-inch Split Rail, strip-set order, and the 7-by-8 layout.
Make this quilt your own
Open the St Patrick's Day Rails quilt in the Quiltler studio — free in your browser, or on iPhone and iPad — to recolour it, swap in your own fabrics, resize it and calculate exact fabric requirements. When it looks the way you want, download the full quilt template of your version, with the fabric list and cutting sizes worked out for you.
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