When it comes to my sewing room, there are many things I am referring to when I say I am cleaning up. Could mean vacuuming, but probably not. Could mean rearranging, and that is more likely. This time I am cleaning by getting rid of scraps. People who sew and end up with lots of scraps. Instead of purging my scrap stash, I am turning them into an Irish Chain Quilt.
There are lots of variations on this pattern. Because I am using up scraps I am using colors at random as long as they are the right size for my project. They will be set against a white background. The quilt I am making has 2 kinds of blocks set in rows in a 1 2 1 2 1 2 pattern....
The first block is a 5" white square. That's it. Simple.
The second block is a 9 patch. This is made of 5 two inch colored squares and 4 two inch white squares set together like a checker board and sewn together with a quarter inch seam. Sewn together these make a 5 inch square.
Once these are all put together it should look like this quilt I found online:
If you are really interested and can't get a visual from my yak yak you can go to u tube and and look up how to make an irish chain quilt. that will tell you all.
Of course the squares can be made whatever size works for you and if I had used larger scraps, I would have a larger quilt with the same amount of work. I have 54 nine patch squares and I should probably do some math and figure out if that will come out right or if I need to make a few more.
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