Four More French Chains

In the fall of 2012 I discovered several block kits in a bargain bin at a favorite quilt shop. They were a steal because they were missing their instructions. I found pictures online of the corresponding blocks and was able to reverse engineer their construction. A few months later I found a finishing kit for the same quilt and happily snapped it up. I’d completed all the setting blocks before I realized that their background print had red pin dots on a cream field while the blocks I’d made the previous fall had tan pin dots on cream. I hoped it wouldn’t matter much, but when I arranged the two sets of blocks together on my design wall, I knew they could never share the same quilt. It took me nearly a year to dig up more of the tan pin dots, but I succeeded. Victory belongs to she who perseveres.