That is beautiful!

[quote=Baren*eh*ked_canadian]K, so ideally, I would have wanted an extra row to make it rectangular, but I'm running out of patience and time, since this is a Christmas gift, and I have yet to do the borders, and put it together (obviously), AND I have a whole other quilt to make for my in-laws (!). So, I think I'm just going to leave it square. There will be an extra 12 inches all around since I'm putting a 4 and a 2 inch border on it, in plain blue and red, so basically it will be about 70" x 70"... that's ok to go on the back of a sofa, right?

Anyway, folks, let me know what you all think of it :) (be nice, I'm still a noob )

ok, second attempt at adding pics.... ACK it's huge, sorry!

OK> I"m not much of a "noob" :lol: but I don't know anything about the Irish Chain. Recently, I was just asking someone ifan Irish Chain always came out square. Well, your statement that you would have "wanted an extra row to make it a rectangle" makes me wonder. Is there a "formula" about the number of "rows"? As you can see I am very ignorant on this topic. :oops:

PS: I love you dialect. I have one of my own -- Cajun.

Sorry I made a mess of the above. Typed my comment/question within the quote. :oops: But you get my drift, don't you?

No formula, as far as I know.
Basically I took the two different kinds of blocks, and sewed them together, over and over again so I had a bunch of rectangles that were of two different kinds of blocks. Then I sewed them together with all opposite blocks touching.... does that make sense?
I suppose I could have made it square, rectangle, or really really long and skinny depending on how many rows of each...


Check this out, maybe it will be more clear than I've been. :oops:

http://www.quilt.com/Blocks/IrishChain/IrishChain.html