Two-Color Irish Chain Quilt-Along: Week 6

Welcome to week 6 of the Two-Color Irish Chain Quilt-Along!

Did you finish making your Checkerboard Blocks and are you getting excited now?

We are in the home stretch of finishing our Irish Chain quilts!

The assignment for this week is pretty simple - make the A sections for the Alternate Blocks!

Section A (Alternate Block)

Size: 2-1/2" x 10- 1/2" unfinished

TWIN:

Make 62

QUEEN:
Make 80

To make the A sections for the Alternate Block:

1. Sew a color 1 strip, 2-1/2" x 40" to a color 2 strip, 6-1/2" x 40" right sides together (RST). 
Do this 4 times for the Twin quilt or 5 times for the Queen quilt using the chain piecing method.

2. Sew a second color 1 strip onto the opposite side of the color 2 strips RST.

3. Carefully press the seam allowances toward the color 1 strips.

4. Square off the ends of the strip sets.

5. Cut 2-1/2" increments until you have 62 A sections for the Twin quilt 

or 80 A sections for the Queen quilt.

And that's it!

Where are you at with things?  Are you staying caught up, moving ahead or falling behind?

I'd love to hear how it's going.  Leave a comment below.