Pinwheel Irish Chain Pattern Release

Today's pattern release has been a long time coming! I'm excited to say that the Pinwheel Irish Chain pattern is now (finally!) in my shop.

I made my first Pinwheel Irish Chain quilt in 2019 as an Island Batik ambassador challenge. I made the top and donated it to Victoria's Quilts Canada, a group that makes comfort quilt for people receiving cancer treatments, and who only accept quilt tops rather than finished quilts.

Every few months since then, I receive an email asking where to buy the Pinwheel Irish Chain pattern, but there wasn't one. There also wasn't a finished quilt for me to put on the cover of a pattern. I put it on my mental to-do list, but with no deadline it just kept getting pushed further and further down the list.

Then I realized it would be a perfect Stash Artists pattern. That meant it had a deadline, so I made another quilt (finished this time), wrote the pattern, and released it to Stash Artists members last March. Now, a year later, it's available to quilters outside the membership. (By the way, if you love scrappy and stash-friendly patterns like this, Stash Artists doors will be opening for new members next month. You can get on the waitlist here to be notified when doors open.)

This quilt is like a collection of my favourite things - blues, pinwheels, an Irish Chain, and it's scrappy! I made the throw size for the cover quilt, and the pattern also includes instructions for baby and queen sizes.

What colour scraps would you use for the Irish Chain in your Pinwheel Irish Chain quilt? While the blues will always have my heart, I keep thinking it would look great in Christmas reds and greens, too. Whatever colour you'd choose, you can get the pattern now in my Etsy shop!