hey there quilters, here's a head's up!! Put a "chicken quilt challenge" on your mental calendar for late winter/early spring!!! :D

Start collecting your fabric now!! Search for chicken fabric at each shopping trip to your favorite fabric store!! :wink:

Sounds good.

Any recommendations for a chicken quilt pattern?

How much yardage of each fabric would you recommend?

We need to be looking for applique patterns too! Please share if you find any on the net.

Nope, not at all (how's that for an honest answer!!??)!! I'll look into it and let you know!

I usually buy 1 yd if I don't know what I am going to do with it. With this quilt, I will buy at leat 1/2 yd since I don't have a pattern yet!

Great foresight - I will post anything I find, including fabric!

I don't know if roosters count, but i just saw the cutest chicken and rooster material in the new keepsake quilting catalog
it's online too at
http://www.keepsakequilting.com/prod...h/chickens.htm

can't wait to see your chicken projects!

Here's my contribution for an appliqued rooster.

http://www.free-quilt-patterns.net/a...e/Rooster.html

That's a great site, thanks :D

Of course roosters count, without them our hens are very unhappy :lol: Going to have to get some of that material :!:

That's a neat rooster, thank you.

http://www.sandybonsib.com/pattern_archive_Jan02.htm
http://www.fatquartershop.com/freequ...ore_id=499&T=1
http://www.yvonnes.dk/chickenpattern.htm
http://www.how-to-quilt.com/patterns...en.Pattern.pdf

I'm so excited about chicken patterns. This will be fun to do. :thumbup:

Thank you :D This is going to be fun!

That's a great website, Loretta! Thanks for sharing. :D

http://www.geocities.com/quiltdesign...enDesigns.html
http://florinejohnsondesigns.com/patterns.html
http://ajpadilla.com/patterns/themes...t/chicken-coop
http://ajpadilla.com/design-library/35-chicken
http://ajpadilla.com/design-library/23-chicken
http://ajpadilla.com/design-library/17-chicken

A few I found

I'm having fun with this......my neighbor and good friend is sooooo into chickens and would love a chicken quilt I'm sure.
Will someone please put this poor ole chicken in their quilt so he won't go in the frying pan?

http://www.clipartof.com/details/clipart/5503.html

I'm game. A chicken quilt is a prefect thing with living in the keys. Chickens roam the city of Key West. They are protected. One of the things that makes Key West fun. I have wanted to try a chicken quilt every since I saw Marcia's quilt. It is beautiful.

I've got him...that is just tooo cute. I can't wait to do this chicken quilt!!

I ran across this during the fabshophop...great fabrics and a lot of them.

http://www.quiltinghen.com/chickens/

Keep me posted on the chicken quilt when ever we start. I want in
on this one I love chickens. Will start collecting fabric now.
Maybe we could have a chicken fabric swap before we start.
I'm in if some one wants to start one.
texasquilts.

I'm game also.

of course roosters count - and so do chicks!! Thanks retrogirl!

Celeste that Florine Johnson Designs site was fabulous. I might even try applique!!

i'll keep everyone posted!

i am so excited that there is interest in this!! I'll take this on to organize and all that stuff and will post more about it as the mood strikes, but definitely way before we are to start!

Thanks to all for the websites and links for all things chicken related - I hope to get some time soon to browse on my own and do some shopping!!

Thanks Steph . You are a hero for doing this. :D Don't forget to stay in contact.

Sorry I"m not into chickens, but it would be a fun one. This morning I went to a store that was closing out their fabric. There was a chicken fabric with little chickens abouit the size of a dime on a brown woven-look backgrouind. I did look at it twice, but decided against it, even tho it was only $2.39/yd.

http://www.craftconn.com/Main.asp?Ta...roductID=19085

This fabric is so cute and I thought of this thread when I saw it!

Now Sara...you are just punishing us because we don't live near the store :cry: :cry: :wink: :lol: AND..you should join us anyway..it will be fun, I'm sure you have a chicken lovin' friend :lol:

http://www.craftconn.com/Main.asp?Task=Custom&Step=Fabric+Details&productId =23351

here's a coordinating fabric with the chickens mrsj82 found!

thanks sondray! you always find the greatest things!

This is going to be fun!

This will be fun! Since I have "Chicken" blood running through my veins!! My great grandmother is Lilly Viola Chickn House! For TRUE!!

Susan

I have a rooster quilt I haven't finished in 15 years:)

Will you show us what you have done?!?

then this will be the perfect time to finish it! Don't think of it as not being done, think of it as you are STEPS upon STEPS ahead of the rest of us on the chicken quilt challenge!

i found some fabric today at joanns and also a cute chicken applique pattern in a book i bought at joanns also (gotta love the 40% off coupons). I'll have to take some pictures and post them, can't do it right now b/c my kids get home in 30 minutes an I want to eat something first!

Thank you for taking this task on. Let us know what you need for us to do.

fabric finds and applique chicken pattern!

Well, maybe some of the rest of us can find chicken fabric at another fabric close out sale.