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It adds just a little bit of color and vintage charm at the foot of my bed.

I also think it would've been cute had the fabric placement been reversed.

What do you think of my new "homebody" pillow?

I got it at the Corn Wagon Mercantile a few weeks ago.

The Corn Wagon is an awesome quilt shop in Springville, UT. 

and they recently opened a retreat center and mercantile behind the shop.  

The whole place ...

I can't believe it's the last week of our Quilt-Along!

It's been so fun seeing everyone's Irish Chain Quilts.  I love the adaptability of 

this pattern.  Whether you did two-colors or scrappy, strip piecing or good ol' traditional piecing, 

this pattern is classic and I hope you will love your quilt for many years to come.

This week's assignment is to finally sew all the blocks together and piece the back.

7 X 9 block layout

9 X 9 block layout

For the twin quilt - sew together 5 rows made ...

Hello hello!

It's week 7 of the Two-Color Irish Chain Quilt-Along!

Can you believe there's only one week left after this?  It's gone by so fast!

I hope you're staying on schedule because soon you will have a beautiful quilt top!

This week's assignment is quite simple.

Just sew two A sections that you made last week onto opposite sides 

of the 6 1/2" x 10 1/2" color 2 rectangles to create the Alternate Blocks.

Welcome to week 6 of the Two-Color Irish Chain Quilt-Along!

Did you finish making your Checkerboard Blocks and are you getting excited now?

We are in the home stretch of finishing our Irish Chain quilts!

The assignment for this week is pretty simple - make the A sections for the Alternate Blocks!

QUEEN:
Make 80

1. Sew a color 1 strip, 2-1/2" x 40" to a color 2 strip, 6-1/2" x 40" right sides together ...

We are cruising right along and I think you're going to LOVE this week's assignment because it's time to sew sections A and B together to complete the Checkerboard Blocks!

Checkerboard Blocks:
Twin: make 32
Queen: make 41

This week we will be sewing, pressing and cutting the B sections for the Checkerboard Blocks!

Welcome to week 3 of the Two-Color Irish Chain Quilt-Along!

The Checkerboard Block is made up of two different sections.

As I've said before, this is going to be a low-key Quilt-Along.  No prizes (so you don't have to post pictures on Instagram each week if you don't want to.)  The only thing I recommend is just checking in each Wednesday for the assignment and trying ...

Welcome to week 2 of the Two-Color Irish Chain Quilt-Along!

I hope you've decided on your two colors and that you 

had a chance to wash, dry and press your fabrics.

Before we get started with this week's assignment, there are two things I want to draw 

your attention to.  First, there are two blocks in this Irish Chain pattern, 

the Checkerboard Block and the Alternate Block.

Checkerboard Block                         Alternate Block

You may notice that this Alternate Block image differs ever so slightly from those in the original quilt images shown in previous weeks, the QAL Week 1 ...

Happy New Year!

You guys asked and I am delivering!  The other day on Instagram, I posted my plans for making a two-color Irish Chain quilt.  I had so many of you say you've always wanted to make one and a handful of you asked if I was going to do a quilt-along so here we are!  Let's do this!

Let me warn you though, this is going to be very informal.  No prizes and no pattern you have to buy.  Just a beautiful, classic quilt at the end of this!  Here are the details: