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Design Your Own Irish Chain Quilt

3/12/2022

 

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Are you dreaming of spring?  One way of celebrating the changing seasons is with a new quilt.  I can see it now -- a bright quilt with flowers in cheery yellows and greens.

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  • ​Create two different quilt layouts for your daffodil blocks.

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Design Your Own Irish Chain Quilt

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Grandma Keller's Irish Chain
With St. Patrick's Day approaching, my thoughts turn to the Irish Chain quilt -- definitely one of my favorite styles.  An Irish Chain quilt was originally gifted to me by my Grandmother and was one of the reasons I eventually took up quilting.
I wanted to use some newer fabrics in my Irish Chain quilt -- but didn't find a "green" collection that appealed to me.  So I started with a larger basics collection and just pulled in the greens and backgrounds from the collection for this project.  The Michael Miller Fairy Frost collection was super easy to work with.  No need for any cropping or resizing.  I just save the images of the fabric images I wanted to use for this project in a folder and imported them into my project.
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In the video tutorial this week, I will focus on how to design an original Irish Chain quilt.  it is actually much easier than you think.  

To start, decide on the size of your block.  By starting with the size, you can ensure that the quilt in its purest form (with only squares and rectangles)  is super simple to cut and piece.  The perfect quilt project for a beginner quilter or designer.
Here are the two basic blocks from the video.  Both designed at 8" x 8".
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The quilt will look much more balanced with an odd number of blocks set vertically and horizontally.  Here is the "simple" version of the quilt.
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Irish Chain Quilt #1 by Kari Schell
With the simpler block, there is an option to add another block in the center.  In keeping with the St. Patrick's Day theme, I chose to merge the block with a shamrock block from the Electric Quilt 8 library.
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Irish Chain Merged Block
Tip:  Try playing with symmetry to change the rotation of the merged block.
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Irish Chain Quilt #2 by Kari Schell
With a few changes to coloration of the primary block, the block now has a more "plaid"-like appearance.
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Plaid Block
Here is the plaid Irish Chain quilt.
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Irish Chain Quilt #3

But wait...there's more

Using the same technique as outlined in the video, I also created a 7-1/2" x 7-1/2" Irish chain block.  The alternate block had the same sized corners as the first 7-1/2" block.
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For the merged block option, I used the applique Shamrock block from the EQ library.
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Irish Chain Quilt #4
I look forward to seeing your Irish Chain blocks (along with your quilt).  Feel free to post pictures in the Learning EQ Facebook Irish Chain post.

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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