Mr. Muddling Has a Brand New Quilt!

Here's the version taken inside.

And this is the version taken outside.

Don't you love this back?  I've had this panel for years.

Here it is again in a picture taken outside.  And yes, that is a chicken's tail there at the bottom.

I so enjoyed making this quilt.  I made some changes to the pattern.  (Of course.)  Some intended and some not.  I decided it was not big enough and added another small and another large border top, bottom and sides.  As you can see, I had to use totally different fabrics for the small borders.  I think they work pretty well.

The batiks in the quilt front are just so pretty to me. 

My husband truly is a good man.  I'm thankful for him, and it was a great pleasure for me to make this for him.

I've been playing some more with my odds and ends left over from other projects.  I'm liking how this one is coming together.  I don't like to waste.  It's exciting to me to use those blocks that got left behind in the construction of other quilts.  And I'm not the only one.  I saw that Amanda Jean is doing some of the same thing. LOL

And now, I have to share some really sad news with you.  Sunny is with us no more.  Monday afternoon I discovered that she had been badly pecked by some of her elders.  I brought her inside and cleaned her up as best I could.  Miss Ru and I fed her and talked to her and watched over her.  But along about two in the morning she quietly slipped away.  I've said many times that I'm thankful that I am a lot bigger than my chickens, because they are fierce.  I foolishly thought that Sunny's two mothers would protect her from the rest, but that didn't happen.  I've learned a lesson here, and I will not again trust a baby out there with the big girls.  I'll miss her.  She was a feisty, fearless little chick.  And cute as a button.

Treasure the things you value, my friends!

Hugs and kisses,