Posts

Showing posts with the label chain of sunshine

Chain of Sunshine

Image
A few weeks ago I was digging in my stash and I came across the gold text print. I had a little over a yard and wondered what I should do with it. I had tried it before when I needed a yellow gold and it never seemed to go with anything. I had a stack of 2.5" scraps of low volume and tons that were bits left from FQ's and such.  I went searching for a pattern and came across this  Scrappy Irish Chain  by Center Street quilts...free on her blog. It is low volume and gold too..perfect! I cut from my scraps until I had a huge pile of 2.5" strips and I dug out my moms old June Tailor strip cutting ruler. Once I sewed the strips together and had to cross cut them this ruler is a keeper! I had the blocks sewn up in no time.  This ruler truly does make it easy to cut accurate and the points match up pretty slick.  These bits were cut offs from my scraps and really while skinny they just seemed to good to throw out so..........on the back they went along with 3 extra blocks I mad