Chickens Handmade Quilt

Chickens Handmade Quilt

Our local farmer's market is back, a wonderful Saturday tradition for far too many years to remember when I started to go. 

I am sure that growing up in Brazil, where we went to the local markets every week for fresh produce, influenced my support of this market. So do the wonderful fresh eggs, which have not only a much brighter yellow color but better flavor than anything I can buy in a grocery store.

Earlier this winter, I was thinking about those wonderful eggs when I saw this chickens handmade quilt hanging on a wall in a quilt and fabric store at Lake of the Ozarks. It's not a common theme for a quilt so the design was eye-catching, regardless, starting with the chicken wire background fabric.

The applique chickens are also unique, from the very tall skinny ones to the different scenes in each of the quilt blocks. Here are some of my favorites:

These applique chicks stand out against the cotton fabric that looks like - well, chicken wire.

The prancing rooster also had an elegance to his stance, I loved his elegant tail.

Prancing applique rooster against the chicken wire fabric background.

And my favorite quilt block in the chickens handmade quilt was this hen sitting on her egg, the egg taking 

The applique green hen is sitting on a bright white egg on a bed of applique hay.

This chickens handmade quilt would make a charming quilt wallhanging in a farm kitchen, don't you think?

Charlotte