Sew Sunshine

I did a simple Irish chain for this weeks challenge theme for Project Quilting. I made this free pattern before and you can read all about that  HERE . I made this in a kid size mainly because I had limited neon fabrics. I have enough strips cut to make bigger but my goal was to make quilts for kids that I could donate to organizations. So in the end getting this one made this week (also I have had some kind of flu for 2 weeks) is a win! Some of these mostly black prints have been in my stash for a long time so really want to keep working on my stash.  Simple criss-cross quilting. 39"x 49" approx. Linking up with Persimon Dreams  HERE

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