I finally decided on a design for my sister’so quilt. As I was messing around on EQ, I remembered an old book that I had from Quilt in a Day.
I originally bought this back when we lived in France to teach a friend to quilt. It still has the Irish Chain feel I was going for. I got my strips cut before work.
And one set sewn.
When I came home on lunch, I got these sets subcut and one block laid out.
The book pattern calls for over cutting the background strips and then trimming the blocks to size. I cut the strips to the exact size to begin with. I understand why they do this and that they want beginners to be successful, but I find this unnecessary for myself.
This won’t be a quilt in a day because I don’t have a full day to devote to it right now.
I used this pattern to make this quilt for my nephew and his wife when they got married 15 years ago.
That is a picture of a picture and the quality is bad. But it is the only picture of this quilt that I have. And it only shows half of the quilt! It was huge. I quilted it on my 1955 Singer Model 201. It is made from all Repro 30’s prints.
In digging through old pictures looking for this, I realized I made an Irish Chain quilt for this same sister 16 years ago.
This is a full size quilt shown on a queen size bed. And it is another picture of a picture.
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Great fabric choices for sis’ new quilt! I really like that pattern too.
You must be an early riser and have long lunch breaks to get so much done!! Looks like you have a great start!
I really like the combination of fabrics that you have pulled for this. I’m sure it’s been a lot of fun to look at your older projects and totally mix it up with new fabric choices. Looks like a good start!
I’ve an Irish Chain on my bucket list, possibly scrappy. I need to pluck up the courage though as I’m not to good with scrappy. I’m too much of a control freak
Lovely quilts !! As I can see, you loooove to make Irish chain quilts !!!
Wonderful pattern for your fabrics. You amaze me in how much you get done BEFORE work. I think I need to get off my duff and start getting things done! Can’t wait to see as this quilt progresses.
I love Irish Chains. This one will be beautiful!
This is going to be one sweet quilt. Isn’t it fun starting a new project?
That’s going to be a fabulous quilt … I can’t wait to see it finished up.
Irish Chain is such a classic pattern. Looks like you will have (another) beautiful Irish Chain soon.