Building Chains

Years ago I ran across a bunch of block-of-the-month kits in a quilt shop bargain bin. They had no instructions; just the block number and the name of the quilt. I found photos of the finished quilt online, and was able to backwards engineer the blocks. I snagged a finishing kit – also on sale – and started piecing intermediary blocks before realizing the finishing kit used a different color way from my blocks. I bought another, finished the quilt top and gave it to the hospital quilters in 2015. The “wrong” finishing kit languished in a closet until this year, when I donated some of the fabric for a youth fund raiser. I’m finally getting around to setting the orphaned intermediary blocks. I still have 1 1/2 yards of red for an inner border, 3 1/4 yards of black for setting triangles and an outer border, and 8 yards of pink/red for back and binding.