Jackie's Chicken Quilt

When our friend, Jackie Barnett, was put in hospice care, Natalie Avery and I decided to make her a quilt.  Jackie had raised a batch of chicks that spring, and had an elaborate house and pen made for them, so we decided to feature her chickens on the quilt.  Working like crazy, we got the quilt mostly done in a week, and had all her friends, from both the Quilt Guild and Valley Humane Society, sign their names on the blocks.  We put the blocks together and Joanna Collins quilted it for us.  In less than two weeks from the start, we presented the quilt to Jackie, and it warmed her last days.  This picture was taken at the 2011 Quilt Show, which had a section dedicated to Guild members who had passed beyond.