Triple Irish Chain - Page 2

Sew the next set of strips we made to the sides of these square units, pressing seams towards the outer strips. These two units are each one quarter of the four square block...

Sew a Color 1  2" x 8" unit to a Color 3 strip of the same size. Press seam towards darker fabric. Add another Color 1 strip to the bottom of that unit. Add Color 2 strips to the top and bottom of that. Add Color 1 strips to the top and bottom of that. Mark and cut this at 2" intervals...

In the same manner as the step above make one of each unit shown at left, marking at cutting each at 2" intervals...

Join all the strips we just made in the order shown at left to make the last two quarter squares of the block...

Piece the block, by joining the four pieced squares...on to Page 3
Oct 14 2001 Marcia Hohn

Page 1

Traditional Block

pattern from http://www.quilterscache.com