Fence Patterns II

A couple of weeks ago during Lucy’s weekly YouTube Live (Mondays at 11:00 AM EST) her tutorial was about making fences to frame your miniature houses. She showed how she glues her fences to her bases. During the tutorial she mentioned that last year I had collected all of my fence patterns into one post so that they were easy to find. She mentioned that I hadn’t included many Halloween fence patterns, so I started working on adding a few. Some are included here, but when I realized I wouldn’t get this post added before Halloween, I reserved several others to share during next year’s Spooktacular. I also decided to add a few non-Halloween fences that I had been working on that I thought would look good as part of a Christmas Village. There are unlimited variations of fence patterns, and several of these are my interpretation of actual full size fences. This file includes 10 fence patterns, 6 that are wood fences, 3 that are iron fences, and one that is a brick wall with iron railings. Look at the PDF I include with the SVG file for a quick visual of the fence patterns available to you.

The SVG and PDF files include the fence pieces in S Scale (the size of the houses on this website.) However, fences can vary wildly in height, from lawn edging to 7 foot high fences (the maximum height in the county I live in.) Think about varying the sizes of the fences in your village if you want even more variety. If you need your fences in a different scale, refer to my post about How to Change the Scale of a Pattern.

Cut Your Own Fences II

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Materials to Make Fences

• My free Fence Patterns II from the A Cottage in the Forest Library. Design #96. Get the password for free by filling out the form at the bottom of this page
• Cardstock, Cardboard (Kraft Board), or Aluminum Can – your choice!
• A Cutting Machine like a Cricut Maker or Cricut Explore.
• OR a hand-held craft blade like an X-Acto knife or Cricut TrueControl Knife. I also have a hand-held knife called the Excel Knife. It is nice in that it uses the cheaper craft blades, but the blade doesn’t work its way loose like the blade in my X-Acto knife often does. You will also need a cutting mat or a glass media mat to cut on. You could also cut our your fences using good Craft Scissors. I bought these scissors back in 2014, use them every day, and they have stayed amazingly sharp.

How To Use the Fence Patterns

Download the Fence Patterns II

Download the Fence Patterns II from A Cottage in the Forest Library. It is design #96. Don’t forget to unzip it. The pattern is available in four formats – as a SVG (scalable vector graphics), a DXF (drawing eXchange format), a Studio3 file, and as a PDF.

Import the Fence Patterns II into Design Software. Once the Fence Patterns are uploaded into your software, check to make sure the pink 1″ square equals 1″, then delete it. Pick which fence style and size you want to use.

If you have trouble cutting any of these fences, try using a thinner card stock. You can cut several layers of the fence and glue them together to be thicker. I also found it helped to use a new blade and a very sticky mat.

Instructions for Specific Fences

Double Fence: this is a variation of my Rose Arbor Fence. It is designed to be a two color fence. Cut the thinner pickets and the fence rails out of one color, and the thicker pickets from a 2nd color. Stack and glue together.

Brick and Iron Wall: For the walls, change the grouped top cut lines to draw. Cut additional posts and glue on top of each of the ones on the bottom pieces. This gives the wall a more 3-dimensional look. You can use pens in ink pads to color the iron posts one color, and the brick walls a different color.

That’s it! Enjoy adding fences to the buildings in your Holiday Village! I would love to see pictures of your buildings made using my Fence Patterns II. Please share a photo of them with me by emailing me at Jackie@acottageintheforest.com.

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Download the Fence Patterns II

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