Kesten My Irish Chain - This quilt followed closely on the heels of Elanore Burns' log cabin quilts. I saw a pattern in a magazine that I liked and purchased the fabric, but I just knew I could make the quilt using Elanore's strip piecing methods. After many nights trying to figure out how to do that, I cam up with my solutions and make the quilt top. When we returned to the United States, I discovered that Elanore had published her approach to the double Irish chainn. I was pleased to see that she had come up with many of the same solutions I had devised. This is the last quilt I will ever hand quilt. Over the course of several years (yes, years -- that's why I won't do another), using an oval frame on a stand and moving the fabric in the frame as I quilted, I finished the quilting. Thanks Elanore for devising a way that a busy mother and full time teacher can still enjoy quilting!