This quilt came about pretty much by accident. I started piecing log-cabin blocks from 1 1/2 inch strips, wanting to make a bed-sized quilt (twin, for me), but I soon tired of the monotony. Then while searching for a suitable border to atleast bring it up to a table-topper size, my eye fell upon this chicken fabric.
Last Christmas, a new friend gifted me and her cousin, both, with generous gift cards to JoAnn fabrics, suggesting a road trip for the three of us sometime. Well, we finally got around to taking that trip about a month ago, and she wound up buying what was left of these chickens , and splitting the piece down the middle with me. The colors in the fabric are absolutely scrumptious, and I had no idea what I'd make, but just had to have some of it.
Well, I cut and sewed, and next thing you knew the chickens were happily roosting........and I am happy as well !
The finished quilt (before laundering) is 39 1/2 wide by 40 3/4 long (green border strips had to differ in widths to accommodate fitting the chicks.
80/20 cotton/poly batting, Valorie Wells backing fabric, Cotton Essentials thread from Connecting Threads. Machine-pieced and binding applied on Juki TL2010Q., finishing with hand-stitching it down to the back. Machine-quilting done, all straight-stitch, on BabyLock Jazz 2 domestic sewing machine.
