sewbizgirl

I love your Irish Chain! I collect the little scrap squares and a scrappy Irish chain is on my 'to do' list.

oksewglad

Lovely way to get rid of 2 1/2" squares. Double sided quilt is a great option. I'm thinking outloud now...would the other side be better to have less piecing to aid in quilting? I'm wondering about all those seam allowances from 2 quilts.

topper1

Gorgeous..scrappy I love and the Irish chain

fred singer

lovely quilt

Mariposa

Pretty Irish Chain top! Great use of all those scrappy squares!

paintmejudy

Gorgeous quilt, and love the idea of you making it reversible!

LindaMRB

Just noticed that the white is not all the same! very pretty scrappy. Post the quilted/finished quilt later, please!

Homespun

Lovely...will you share where you got your pattern?

mtkoldra

love Double Irish chain quilts, yours is lovely!

JJBlaine

Thank you all for the wonderful compliments! This one has been on my wish list since I first started quilting, yet somehow I never got around to making it before now.

Looking at my drawer full of 2-1/2" squares, you would never guess I used any--I didn't even make a dent, lol. As for the ease of quilting, I suppose it probably would be easier with less seam allowances. I only recently started teaching myself to FMQ, and the three quilts I have done have been reversible, and it hasn't been any trouble so far. I definitely would not want to hand quilt it though!

I didn't use a pattern, but it's pretty easy. The 54 background blocks are (2) 6-1/2"x2-1/2" and (1) 6-1/2"x10-1/2", plus four 2-1/2" scraps.

The 55 all scrappy blocks are 2-1/2" squares, which mostly I pieced as leaders/enders. I used (4) all scrappy four patches for the corners, (4) two patches with BG and and a color for the center row/column, and a single 2-1/2" colored square for the center.

I did take care to make sure my BG fabrics matched form block to block, but I used the paper bag method for the colored scraps, so it is totally random.