I am so glad to see this thread again---maybe this is the year I will make an Irish Chain! Everyone's quilts are amazing!! Thanks for the inspiration.

beatiful quilts - another one to add to my list!

Oh my, these are gorgeous!! Makes me want to make one. Whoever resurrected this..........I'm gonna die! Now I have another quilt on my "TO DO" list. Yikes!!!

Oh gosh, they ALL look so nice! And Rhonda, love your trip around nine!

Thanks Barb I wasn't sure if it was really an Irish Chain but that was the idea I started with. I just tweaked it my way as usual. I have always loved the Irish Chain and the Trip around the World(the center of a trip) and I combined the two in one quilt. So I think of it as part Irish Chain.

Here is a picture of my double Irish chain from around the world
2" squares are from South Africia, Australia, England, Canada and the US...... and some of my own 2" squares.... this makes my quilt very special to me.
:thumbup: Scrap quilter

All of these quilts are just gorgeous!!!

Wow!! There are some amazing quilts on here. It's so much fun to see the color choices--from elegant to scrappy-I love them all. Thanks for posting the photos!

I will definitely be making another, but not just yet.

scrap quilter....that scrappy is sooo pretty! And I love the back story too.

Here's my Double Irish Chain, Karla. Made in honor of my paternal grandmother who was proud of her Irish heritage. All the fabrics are shamrocks except the one solid kelly green. The dark green shamrock print has teeeeny tiny yellow blossoms, so that is why I used the yellow piping/quarter-inch border and the yellow prairie points. The back is also a shamrock fabric, but different from the front.

It is quilted with shamrocks in each of the solid squares, a ring of shamrocks in the large spaces, and bunches of shamrocks in the outer borders. Somewhere in the quilt my LAQ hid one 4-leaf clover at my request.

I gave this quilt to my paternal aunt and thought these were the only photos I had of the quilt. But I came across some more while I was packing that shows it on a bed and a good close-up of the shamrock quilting. Now, if I only knew what box I put them in! :?