Of all the posts I have on this blog, The Hen House has by far had the most hits. How can you not love that quilt with beautiful Kaffe fabric and Moda Grunge?

Last March while I was on vacation in Texas I found another pattern with roosters and knew it would also be a hit. So I’ve had this pattern for 10 months and I’ve just finished it. I made the fatal error to not buy the ruler set to make the sunrise. I didn’t think I needed it because I had three different size ruler sets for drunkards path block. When I got home I realize none of those set would make a 10 inch block.

It was October before I got the background sunrise blocks made.

Time to get those roosters on the sunrise.

I did get the blanket stitching done around all the rooster before I went to a quilt retreat in November. It was at that retreat I got the blocks all put together with solid blue sashing between the blocks and a small border with the same blue around the outside. My thought was to add another border with a printed blue when someone, and I’m not even sure who is was that suggested it, that I use a yellow for the outside border. What a great idea. I didn’t have fabric for that second border with me so when I got home I auditioned a blue as well as a yellow.

Well the yellow was perfect. Here the quilt is on my Simply Sixteen. I make a few thread changes getting this quilt completed because I didn’t want the quilting to compete with the look of the roosters.

I finished the binding this weekend and got to hanging it on the fence at the lake house in the snow. But the story doesn’t end there.

Every time I showed this quilt to my sister, Nancy, she always commented that it reminded her of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. Our Dad ate them every morning for breakfast so we had seen that box our whole lives.

I made these three hot pads, one for me and each of my sisters, using the colors of that Kellogg’s Corn Flakes rooster.