Ooooh I LOVE this!! So beautifully worked; as Terri said - you should enter it into a show! We have chooks at home, and I am always looking for items with hens and roosters to decorate the house.
Your quilt is FABULOUS! I am amazed by your applique skills. I love the different types of hens/roosters. The wide variety of fabrics makes each of the birds fun and unique. Are you keeping this quilt for yourself? Have you considered entering it in…
Your applique quilt is beautiful. I like how each bird is a different kind yet the work is cohesive. Was this a kit or did you use a reference book to get the ideas of different hens/roosters (or, perhaps, you're a farmer and the birds posed for you…
OOOOHHHH It is beautiful.In our garden we have some hens and it seems that you copied them. Did you aplicate them and then quilted the back ground? What a piece of work.
June,
You did an excellent job of picking out the materials for the "chooks." I'm sure you noticed that I put quotation marks around chooks. It's because I, being an American, was not familiar with this term for chickens until the summer of 2007 when we traveled to Australia to attend the wedding of my twin sister's oldest daughter.