I made this one for friends who lived in our gated community east of Memphis Tennessee. I was friends with Julie, the mother, her daughter Anna was about Tina's age. When she got married after we moved back to Maplewood, I just had to make her a quilt. This is a Double Irish Chain and one of my favorite quilts. She wanted mostly dark greens, jade, forest etc. The technique is to sew 2 1/2 inch strips together, then cross cut, to form the squares, then sew these together into the chain. I made the strips together, then forgot what I was doing and cross cut without considering the seam allowance. The squares ended up being rectangles. So this is not strictly a "square" Irish chain, but more rectangle. I was NOT going to through away all those lovely pieces of green fabric and I think it turned out well. Someday I might make another this same way.
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