Those Pesky Chickens

Here's what happened ...

I keep some fabric collections in plastic 3-drawer units.

In my cleaning dirvish last week I was putting solids back in their proper drawer when I glanced to the right and saw an interesting piece of fabric showing through the clear plastic drawer front.  The drawer was labeled "Panels."  Hmmm ... wonder what's in there ...

Not much, actually, because I had worked through some panels earlier this year.  The fabric that had attracted my attention was grouped with a panel of Jolly Roosters.

And down the rabbit hole I went!  One of the difficulties on working with panels is they are rarely printed perfectly. I first cut them apart and arranged them on the wall.

I decided to trim them to a consistent size that would eliminate the creamy separator strip.  The key word there was consistent!  Seven inches would still leave a little less than 1/4" of the cream showing, assuming they were printed square -- which they weren't!  But I muddled through.

The birds needed some separation for the quilt to be a usable size.  I settled on an hourglass unit and after auditioning several of the fabrics in the "collection," I settled on the black print and grey Grunge.  Two days later I am at this point.

I'll use red Grunge as a narrow stop border and finish with a black border.

But, first, I need to get the house ready for guests.  Several of my Mid-TN friends are stopping over before we all head to a new retreat venue in East TN.  It will be sew nice to see everyone again.  And, yes, we plan to be safely distanced and masked.

Edited - Border now on and back/binding ready to go!