When life gives you farm fabric, you make a chicken quilt!
Several months ago, I picked all this fabric from Missouri Star Quilt Co., including the 10" stack of Country Life fabric by Jennifer Long of Riley Blake Designs. I knew it would make a fantastic Clucks quilt!
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I uploaded the digital fabric swatches into EQ8 to do a quick mockup to plan my fabric layout, then I was ready to start!
I printed the chicken from the pattern directly onto the fusible sheets. This time I used Barely There printable fusible web sheets from Missouri Star. They worked fantastic! (And the finished quilt is soft and pliable instead of stiff like some other fusibles!)
A quick press onto the back of the layer cake squares, and they were ready to cut out! (I used my Oliso iron!)
Then I used scissors to carefully cut out the chickens. Once cut, I pressed the chickens to 10" background squares, AND I pressed the "scrap" that I cut the chicken out of onto a background square too. This gives you TWO blocks for each ONE chicken that you cut out!
I used a straight stitch with the Light Beige Aurifil 50wt thread to stitch about 1/8" in from the raw edge of each chicken. Then it's a quick sew to sew the blocks into the quilt top!
Once the top was done, I loaded it onto my longarm with the red chicken wire fabric for the backing and Hobbs 80/20 batting from Batting Super Sale. I did a medium meander stitch over the whole quilt.
Then I used some of the chicken wire fabric for the binding.
I love how this one turned out!!
We live in the suburbs where our HOA doesn't allow real chickens, but I think quilt chickens are a fantastic alternative!
Have you ever made any quilt chickens??
Thank you to Missouri Star Quilt Co. for the fabric, fusible, and thread to make this quilt!
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