Catch Up... sort of

After spending most of yesterday either in the dr's office or in E.R. with hubby, I didn't feel much like sewing or doing much of anything else.  I even stopped by Arby's on the way home to pick up something for dinner.  He now has an appt to see our g.p. on Monday - hoping for better news than we got yesterday - which really wasn't much.

So, the other night while I was watching another episode of Midsomer Murders, I thought to myself "well, if you're going to be sitting here watching, you might as well do something" so I started cutting out the chickens that I had traced onto paper back fusible.  That didn't take long, so I thought I might as well go ahead and press them to the fabric - there are 25 chickens and 25 beaks so it didn't take long.  Ok, well the show is still on - might as well cut them out, so I did.  By then the show was over and Buddy was bugging me to go to bed.

Today, after making phone calls back and forth with our g.p.s office, and while talking to my friend, Marnie, I got the chicks and their beaks fused onto the backgrounds and their feet drawn onto the background squares.  After I got off the phone ( and while listening to yet another episode of MM), I started stitching them down with matching threads & buttonhole stitches.

I was debating on how to do the legs - either by hand or machine... I think machine is going to win out because I have a 'heavy' stitch on my machine that will work great for this.  Then it will be time to sew on the eyes - by hand before I start making the pinwheels.  I was thinking about using white and green for the pinwheels but I'm not sure the white would look as good with the chicken wire print... I have enough fabrics that I can do a test block of each the white & green and the chicken wire & green.

This is my third, but probably not my last chicken quilt.  I found a second set of chicken patterns at fatcatpatterns.com and have printed them out... kind of wild chickens that will be fun to do.  I still have a few charm squares left from the ones I'm using for this Chubby Chicks quilt and I might be able to use them for the "What the Cluck" quilt... then again, maybe not...either way, I'm sure I've got some bright fabric scraps for the WTCs.

And on that note, I'm going to finish my snack and try to figure out where I put my bottle of pop and go back to working on the CC's.

take care

TTYL