Project Quilting 15.6: Irish Chain
The Project Quilting challenges have made the first three months of the year fly by - I can't believe March is already almost over! I also can't believe that this is the first time I have participated - I'm already looking forward to season 16 next year. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The sixth and final Project Quilting challenge is Irish Chain . I have always admired Irish Chain quilts, but I've never actually made one. Luckily for me, my kids are home on spring break this week otherwise I probably would have over-extended myself and made a full-size Irish Chain quilt. Instead, I made a single oversized block into the cutest little baby quilt! My quilt is based on a sketch of a Triple Irish Chain block that I found on a website featuring vintage quilt blocks and a single Rubber Ducky quilt block by Kelli Fannin . I enlarged the duck block so that it would fit in the center of my 30" Irish Chain block, and then I added a simple border