Triple Irish Chain finished!

The Triple Irish Chain quilt is finished. Wahoo!! I took some pictures but not a lot. I slipped up. I got excited to finally be so close to done.

Stitching the rows of the 49 square blocks to the background blocks starts with making a lot of paired blocks.

Back from the quilt shop so I can trim and bind it.

Washed and hung out on the line to dry. All 119" x 119" inches of it. And done!

Irish Chain square blocks

I've been stitching strip sets. Cutting strip sets. Stitching blocks. Press. Do it again.

I love the 40 square blocks. Lots of blues. Lots of movement. And thankfully I managed to keep all my strip sets in the right order to make the block production go smoothly. Amen,

My quilt will be 11 x 11 rows, a total of 121 blocks. 61 blocks of the 49 squares. 60 or the background squares.

I admit I worked hard to stay focused to get the right rows in the right order. I had my thinking cap on :)

And a good start to lots of blocks.

Irish Chain anyone?

I have started on my first Irish Chain quilt. Have you done one? I think they look awesome and supposedly they are fairly quick and easy to assemble. Which is good because I want to give this to my youngest son as a Christmas present. This year! LOL

I chose to do a Triple Irish Chain. Because I never do anything the easy way. I'm using some Kona cottons in blues that I bought thinking I would use them in a mystery quilt along. Then I didn't participate, LOL. I feel so blessed to find myself with 3 or so yards of each blue. I was pondering what colors and patterns or fabric lines to use when I remembered these cottons tucked in a bag, in a box, under some stuff. And they will be perfect.

Who else loses fabric under 'stuff '? I know I'm not alone. Anyone? Sighsss just me.

I spent a few hours cutting strips. Can we talk about an adventure with a dull rotary blade? Not today? OK, we will move on. Anyway if my loose math was correct, I have enough strips to piece the blocks with a zillion squares. We will see.

Aren't the strip sets pretty?