The Roosters are Crowing

This rooster fabric was rescued from my friend, Maralie's garage sale last summer. i finally decided to use the rest of it up. so i cut blocks of roosters and flowers. it came out about 60x70". the blocks are 5.5" finished.

The alternate blocks are yellow selvage squares.

The only 'rule' i gave myself was that each square had to be the same selvage. so i could only use longer selvages that would fill up a square.

Sometimes there were enough selvages to make a square but there were several pieces...different widths. so, some blocks have thin pieces of selvages and some have thicker. and some have some of both. LOL

I was running out of yellows...so had to use some golds, beige and 'almost' yellows. that's ok...it's my rules.

The green is another Maralie sale fabric.

The back was pieced with the green of the border and the last of the rooster fabrics.

It would have made it easier for me had the rooster design people put those blocks in a straight line instead of staggering them. some of my roosters lost their feet in the cutting process and some baskets lost their bottoms.

It will be a donation quilt somewhere. i quilted it with my Quiltazoid templates with Bright Neon Yellow Glide thread on the top and a green Bottom Line in the bobbin that matched so exactly i could hardly see it on the back.

Another bit of stash used up. now to go and pull more stash to piece the next backing. it will be wild, i think. i'll let you see it

Later

#11 UFO Challenge with JudyL

For the month of September the UFO Challenge quilt was #11. mine was a blue and yellow Take 5 pattern that was pieced by the church ladies.

This was some fabric that i donated to the church some time ago. in fact, i had cut all the pieces out with my AccuQuilt machine and gave them the directions and a picture of how to put it together.

They brought it back several months ago....without the borders. no one knew how to put on the borders. their usual style is to embroider blocks and give them to me to assemble and quilt for them.

This was quilted with a floral template from Quiltazoid...quick and easy. but it lived on the frame for 3 or 4 weeks. i started it before my surgery and just now got back to finishing it up.

Usually we just put muslin on the backs of their quilts but this time i wanted to change it up. i had some fabric that had yellow and blue in it and i had enough to piece a back. so the back on this one is...

Chickens...or are those roosters.  whatever. LOL

The lady that picked it up liked it and said she wanted to hang it in her kitchen. LOL  this is queen size so she better have a large kitchen.

I'm trying to push them out of their embroidered blocks trench but don't know if it will work or not.

But anyway....it got 9 yards of chicken fabric out of my stash and got my September UFO Challenge quilt done....and i am happy with that.