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I am constantly impressed with the awesome fabrics you people find!!! I don't have ANY good chicken fabrics. I LOVE the chickens and chickenwire fabric in the first block, and the eggs in straw fabric in the second block! WOW!
Awwww! What a cute block!! Here's what you can do: get it wet, and then iron it dry with a HOT iron (like on the linen setting). This will pre-shrink it. Then, measure. If it's still close to 12 inches (like a quarter inch off), then you can probably still use it!
(if not, we can have a...
I'm in hog (or chicken) heaven! I have tiny, warm sleeping chicks in my lap, I have quilt blocks for my friendship quilt, and I am completely addicted to BYC. Only bad thing is the chickens make it hard to move my arms to type, and they keep wanting to sit on the laptop trackpad.
Look at the lovely block I got in the mail from ChevyBeth!!!
I LOVE the golden chicken fabric!!!! Where did you get it??
(oops.. I just noticed I hadn't rotated the photo correctly)
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Actually, I got the original pattern from quilterscache.com. It was a basket with star. That part is all pieced, not applique. However, it looked empty (and wasn't chicken themed!) so I added the applique eggs.
I think it's my favorite so far.
on a completely (or not at all)...
Hurrah, gumpsgirl! I'm SO glad you got it!
I'm pretty new to the forum thing, so the inbox and confusion over multiple threads has my head spinning sometimes!
But I'm getting the hang of it. Did you like your little blue orpington hen, too?