Irish Chain

Because my daughter was here and wanted to work on this:

 I pulled this box of 2" red squares that was an exchange many years ago. Here it is when I was working on it 3 years ago. I got disgusted with it and put it up. Here I was picking out the squares of fabric that I was pretty sure were NOT 100% cotton even though the exchange rules said to use 100% cotton. (I burn tested many of them and many were not cotton, although some I thought were not were.) While I was at it I also picked out some that didn't follow the pattern; dark reds had to be in a certain place, with bright reds in other places. Then I just picked out a few that I hated; like a coca cola fabric. So I had a mess and had to resew a bunch of strips..

Then if you look at these you can tell that they would not sew together well so had to be resewn. Each strip needed to be 11 inches long. One of those below is 11.5 inches, some were 10.5

Turned over you can see the different sized seams that were used. The ones that were too small were easy to fix, just resew them at 1/4". The too big seams had to be un-picked and sewn back.

So I figure I sewed this quilt together at least 2  times!  Thanks to my insomnia last week I got a few seams sewn every night between midnight and 3 a.m.

Now I'm working on the pieced borders.....I may get disgusted again since the strips need so much work. Who knows how long they will take.
I justified working on this quilt instead of Liz's project since I want to use the leftover squares on her Dresden plate; I don't know how many squares I'll have leftover unless I get this one put together; right?

Judy has a list of other design wall projects go look at them here.