Welcome to the quilting board Snitchesgetstitches! Thanks for sharing that tidbit of Irish history with us
Considering I'm also Irish, I guess I should have already known that!
We would love to see any Irish chain quilts - single, double, solid color or scrappy
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Originally Posted by
Snitchesgetstitches
This looks great. But my ancestors are from Ireland and scrappys were frowned upon. During the potato famine scrappys was a sign of poverty. As such, Irish quilting guilds utilized single Irish chain quilt pattern.