Irish Chain

Oh, I love an Irish Chain. This was fun to make but a challenge to quilt. It measures 98 x 98--a lot of quilt to work with. I made this for my son and his wife as a wedding gift. I told him I only took three years to decide how to quilt it. He reminded me it was five years. I have lots of quilts to get finished and do not have too many more 5 years in my lifetime. So I am going to try to do something about that. This week--cooking and cleaning will need to wait. VBS is over and Peru Mission trip is in three weeks. I have a little time to work on a couple of quilts.

Here is my Irish Chain. I bought the material in Shipshewanna, IN with the help of two Mennonite ladies--a mother and teenage daughter.  That was fun!! I quilted the white blocks with a free motion circle feather design. The circles in border have free motion flowers. The squares have half circles from corner to corner.

I am also working on a Bloom quilt from Bee in my Bonnet website. I have five squares completed. I fell in love with this pattern when she introduced it back in February. I was burned out from so many activities and this fresh new quilt caught my eye. I just had to give it a try. It is a fun quilt and makes me smile when I look at it.

I am also working on a Kaffe Fassett quilt. I will post the quilt top tomorrow.