What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Interesting design, but it could use some fabric modifications.

Second design is much better, but could be better still … more play time needed in this project file.

This project file is Burgoyne Surrounded by Irish recoloured. Much prettier than the original!

The mixture of shapes is still interesting, and much more suitable for the lady of the house.

Makes me think of garden beds with paved paths!

Which would make the second one the central feature.

Rather a restful colour combination in this project file.

In most of the designs in the Irish Gardener project files I have used applique motifs over the pieced background rather then just applique blocks mixed in with the Irish Chain blocks, but the design above has applique blocks with plain backgrounds … not as effective done this way.

Quilting

I started by planning the front then matched the same location at the seams as I moved to the back and sleeves. It worked pretty well. 

My ...

Quilting

Triple irish chain is now a finished UFO quilt from my 5 quilt project. I started this in 2012. The top just needed borders in 2017, and, then, has waited it's turn on the longarm. I really like 30's prints and colors. I think that is what drew me back into quilting. Around here, 30s quilts were mostly what we could find at antique stores.  When I was a young quilter, I admired the work and dedication to make quilts during such a difficult time period.

84 x104 = 24 yards

More Irish tangles, with both applique and quilting included. The pieced blocks are easy, the applique is only a small portion of the quilt.

Love the first …

…. and the second!

Pink and dark grey is an unusual combination, but I like that it makes pink a bit more masculine than usual.

Pink and lighter grey is a much more likable combination for ladies.

If we can have flowers mixed with Double Irish Chain blocks, why not with Triple Irish Chains?

Oops! Forgot to turn one flower around, though I could have left them all standing upright! Despite that, I think I like the Triple Chain designs better than the Double Chains, but that could just be the different colours in the chains.

Triple Irish Chain is not the most interesting block I have ever played with, but sometimes I really like what I find … and the one above is one of them. Lots of chain, but room for quilting to shine.

The quilting designs would have to be based on four leaf clover!

I have a lot of fun mixing unrelated blocks to see what happens.

I usually get carried away by the blocks and just go with whatever fabrics I find first, and promise myself that I will play with colour another day, but that day rarely comes.

In this project file I love the textures created by lots of little squares and rectangles.

Love it … love green, love quilting, love designs which are not your average design.

Ditto the above!!

I have never seen a lot of Triple Irish Chain quilts, which is understandable, but I have enjoyed playing with the design.

The first design includes space for quilting to shine, which I always like, whatever block designs surround that space.

Not as much space for quilting in the second, but it is an interesting shape.

Basic piecing, interesting design.

More interesting than the first.

The final design for the day, and my favourite.

Interesting!

Amazing what can happen when you mix up Single Irish Chain, Double irish Chain and Triple Irish Chain blocks!

A Single Irish Chain block is pieced like a Chimneys and Cornerstones, a variation of the Log Cabin block, so it seemed logical to me to colour the Irish Chain blocks like a Cornerstones block … and mix in the other Irish Chain blocks.

Interesting effect with some of the blocks washed out!

I have just realized that I have only used Single and Triple Irish Chain blocks … need to find more time to play with these!

I also seem to have misplaced Irish Log Cabin designs in straight settings … setting out on a search party to find that project file.

Single, Double and Triple Irish Chain blocks all mixed up … and I like the results.

Still liking it.

Still liking it even though there are no Double Irish Chain blocks in the last design.