This green Single Irish Chain was on the floor of my sewing room - right in front of all the cabinets. I kind of had forgotten about it - I think I had planned to do some embroidery in all the empty white spaces. Well, I’ve changed my mind about that. Not doing that. My goal with these half finished things this time is to get them D.O.N.E. and out of the sewing room!

So I did! I just decided to abandon all ideas of something fancy in the white places and just straight line quilt right through the middle. I am no longer in love with this quilt and really just wanted it out of my sewing room and on to a new home.

All done. Quilted, bound. washed. Photographed.

This is one of the oldest tops I have had sitting around. I know that because the green was fabric that I got when I first started quilting. It is not nice for quilting - it is simply too thick and bulky. The fabric was a set of curtains - and while it is 100% cotton - I didn’t know what I was doing very well - All I knew I was supposed to do was search for all cotton at the second-hand shops.

Not doing that again. But since I did cut the fabric and sew it up, I went ahead and finished it. Now it’s done. It’s not even that special - But the single Irish Chain (9 patch plus plain square) was the first “block/pattern” I learned to do - and as such it does have a special place in my heart.

It’s not difficult.

If you are wondering, I do have a Single Irish Chain pattern available for you if you want to use it. It’s here. It’s part of the Irish Chain Fancy. Just leave off the outer border and you have a simple Single Irish Chain quilt!

I also uncovered some big 9 patches that I had already put together but not yet finished. They have been sitting in my cabinets for a while. I went ahead and finished up those pieces and made up 4 more charity tops.

It helped clean out one of the shelves of my cabinets. That always feels good.

I originally had pieced the ones below thinking I would make the big squares of pieces into QAYG (Quilt as you Go) big sections and then put them together and make up a big quilt top. However, that was back then. This is now. I wasn’t nearly as confident about FMQ as back then - so I just decided to go ahead and finish up the tops and fold them to go into the pile of finished charity tops.

Feels good. I’ll quilt them the regular way - not QAYG.

Here they are. I just added the borders to the top and bottom one to make them a double size. The middle one is a single size.

And there you are. That’s the last of the “cleanup the sewing room” finished items for now.

The only other thing that I’m actually working on from the floor cleanup now is that stack of 7x7 - 2.5” squares - I’m making more squares to make enough to make an Ice Cube Prisms only a 2.5” version quilt.

Then, as I was cleaning up the sewing room, I collected a nice big bag of misc. “stuff” that that needs to be trimmed down into my 1.5”, 2” and 2.5” strips. However, I’m also trimming into 2 bricks sizes - a 3”x5.5” and a 3.5”x6.5” size and I’m hoping to make two more Mosaics in those sizes. Then, when I am finished, I will have them using bricks of these sizes — 1.5”x2.5”, 2”x3.5”, 2.5”x4.5”, 3”x5.5”, and 3.5”x 6.5. Then, I’d like to put them all in the same blog post, side by side or on top of each other so you can compare! I think it will be interesting!

I need the trimming done so I can report on it by the end of this month, so I’m pushing for that. Trimming is actually a great project for these warm, July days - since it has turned warm the last couple of days. Of course our “warm” (80-85F) is probably some of your “moderate”!

But there you have it - another very old quilt top I can call finished and four more quilt tops for charity! The green/white Irish Chain will probably be considered a gift quilt - or if a charity quilt, I’ll kind of “vet” who gets it. I’ll need to decide on that later. For now, it’s finished!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

Be sure to check what my sis has for you in the store!