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Quilting and Patchwork

March 13th, 2008

Quilting with a St. Patrick’s Day Influence

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 Quilts with a St. Patrick’s Day or Irish influence permeate our history in names and colors.  Many of the quilts of our ancestors had names that revealed that origin and the phrase, “the luck of the Irish.”
These included: Irish Chain, Double Irish Chain, Double Irish Chain, Four-Leaf Clover, Triple Irish Chain, Shamrock and others.  Then […]

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