I bought and washed/dried 5 yards of WoW fabric to complete my fabric pile to make my husband a king size patriotic double irish chain!! It's going to be scrappy..... scrappy reds and blues. Then just the one WoW fabric.

I'm doing mine with the single chain of red with blue chains on either side. Cutting my strips 2 1/2 inches.

Have you made one like this? I'd love to see pics!!! I'm working from a black and white drawing pattern (the old Eleanor Burns book), so I've never actually seen one like I'm making. LOL

I made this one in purple, olive green, and cream. Hope this gives you an idea of what your quilt might look like.

http://quickquilts.com/patriotic/pattern_105/

I have never made an Irish Chain, but I think your idea for a red, white and blue one is really going to be pretty! I found these websites with instructions

http://www.quilterscache.com/D/Doubl...hainBlock.html
http://www.quilt.com/Blocks/IrishChain/IrishChain.html

And the rest of these are pics of different Irish Chain quilts I found on webshots that I thought might give you some ideas. Good luck and let me know what you decide.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...26962839yWlvHL
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...64464954YNmfWL
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...46532402IzZHYk
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...72978081uCrKdG
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...25676247MxVwcg
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...43898656YeDNZx
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...68722779gcAEZb
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...96553530etqiNU

Wow you got a lot of good places to visit...good luck! :D

My gosh, Marcia, thankyou!! I hope mine comes out as pretty as those examples!!!

I got a nice amount done last night.... I was going to piece whole blocks together as I went, but I want it to be 100% randomly scrappy with the fabrics I have, so I have to just piece all of the strip sets before assembling ANY blocks. So that I'm sure everything is scrambled properly. hehehe

Marcia, thanks for posting the site for The irish chain quilts...great directions!

Here's one in Red, white and grey.....But it is a triple.....

You might also want to check out:
http://www.quilterscache.com/D/Doubl...hainBlock.html

She has quite a few examples linked from page 3 of the pattern.

I used an old pattern book plus hers to make mine. Her's had a better, more understandable block view. I ended up making my filler outside 1/2 blocks last