This block shows a patch of corner grass with the strong stitching in light green on its border. This patch of grass is two dark green fabrics, one a mound on top of the other in the bottom left corner. Standing on the mound is a duck, just about standing up flapping and stretching its wings. On the breast of the duck is a large white S written in with white pen. The duck is a several colors. The bill is a yellow fabric, the head a deep green fabric, the neck a white fabric, and the rest (beside the feet) is a brown fabric. The feet are orange fabric. These are all stitched together with a tight salt-and-pepper stitching to look very much like a duck standing up.

Block-A-Day 326 – Super Duck

Tina November 22, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

So here’s to you, Clark Kent of the duck world. Not sure if this fellow struts around the barnyard solving problems or touting his super-ness, but he’s sure a funny little delusional duck.

This quilt block shows a duck from the side facing left. The duck has a green head, a white collar, and a brown body. The duck bill is a small orange piece of fabric, the head a dark green piece of fabric, the body a small white piece, and the body is made up of three brown pieces (two for the wings). The feet are the same fabric as the bill. The wings are in mid-flap and are coming out of each side of the duck. Every piece of fabric is outlined by a black and white salt-and-pepper-like stitch. This is against a light blue salmon-patterned background.

Block-A-Day 325 – The Silver Appleyard Duck

Tina November 21, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I’m going to call this duck a Silver Appleyard duck. They are a nice dual breed duck, producing tender meat and plentiful eggs. Here are 8 reasons to keep ducks:

This quilt block shows a horse in a stable. The stable is a yellow building with vertical slats delineated by red stitching. In the middle of the building is a brown gate split into an upper window and a lower door. The upper window is open, and out from the black fabric inside is an orange fabric in the shape of a horse. The horse has extra details drawn in with pen, like an eye and mane. The roof of the stable is a dark red and flat.

Block-A-Day 322 – Buck The Horse

Tina November 18, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

A gelding is a castrated male horse. Once after a vet had been to our place to castrate a couple of colts, I asked my father why the vet had been there. He replied, “Well, Sis, those young studs just had their minds changed for them.”

This quilt block is a corner block. There is a patch of grass in the bottom right corner, stretching from the bottom left corner to the top right corner. It has a green bold stitching across its top. There are two chickens on the grass, one a brown patch of fabric, and one a black patch of fabric. The black patch is larger than the brown patch, and is the rooster. There are pen markings on each patch to indicate feathers and a wing. The brown patch is a hen that is looking back at the rooster.

Block-A-Day 320 – The Rooster

Tina November 16, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I think roosters can be beautiful creatures. They can also be mean, aggressive, and hard on the hens. We don’t have roosters at Sisu Farm. That means, of course, that we don’t have fertilized eggs.

This quilt block shows two cows from behind standing next to each other with a brown divider between them. Their tails are up revealing their large udders that are pink between their back legs. The cows are pieces of white and black fabric, and look like stereotypical milking cows. There is a brown structure over them in a large arch with a tan sign beneath the arch. The sign reads,

Block-A-Day 315 – Milking Time!

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She wanted to milk the cows in the worse way. Her father would never allow it stating that she was a young lady and it would make her delicate hands course. I’ve always felt that was the reason she was so anxious to do it.

This quilt block shows a short box on a field of grass with white hens inside. The bottom half of the block is a green salmon-patterned fabric, while the top half is a light blue salmon-patterned baground. In the middle of the green fabric are brown pieces of fabric with brown stitching that show a squat structure. Half of the structure is covered, the other half is lined with chicken wire. Inside the chicken wire are white chickens, each it's own piece of fabric.

Block-A-Day 306 – The Pasture Pen

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Pasture pens are open-air structures that have a roof covering 3/4 of the top surface. Half of the side surface is also solid. The remaining surfaces are covered with chicken wire.

This quilt block shows a teal colored winne-eggo. This is a Winnebago decked out to be a chicken nest and watering hole. The steel fabric is shaped like a rectangular winnebago with dark green windows. The windows have covers that are open and are brown. Ther is a darker blue horizontal stripe across the middle of the Winnebago. There are drawn two human doors, and one ramp with a black square for chickens. Near the back wheels are little red nipples lined up to feed the chickens water on the bottom of the trailer.

Block-A-Day 304 – The Winna-eggo

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There is a hen door with a ramp for hen access and the farmer enters by the door to collect eggs. At the bottom of the Winna-eggo is a loop of PVC with water nipples for clean fresh water.

This quilt block shows a brown piece of fabric made to look like a big rectangular box on its side with demarcated boxes in pen in it. In each box is either yellow hay, or a light rust colored hen sitting on eggs looking at the viewer. This is against a blue splotch background fabric.

Block-A-Day 303 – The Nesting Boxes

Tina October 30, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

If you have a hundred chickens you’ll have ten nests, and that’s about the ratio you want and works out the best. When we started out we had open nests just like you see here in this block.