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« Sherbert Irish Chain Quilt | Main | More Nine Patch Piecing »
Tuesday
07Nov2006

Nine Patch Cutting and Piecing

The Irish Chain consists of nine patch or checkerboard blocks .  Cut eight 2 1/2-inch strips of the chain fabric and seven 2 1/2-inch strips of the background fabrics.

 
With right sides together, sew one chain strip to one background strip.
 
strip1.jpg 
 
Press the seam towards the chain fabric. Sew a matching background strip to the other side of this chain strip to create a background-chain-background stripe.  Press and set aside. Make two more stripe pieces for a total of three background-chain-background pieces.
 
strip2.jpg
 
Now make three chain-background-chain pieces using the same process.  Your piece should look like this:
 strip4.jpg
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