Another Finished Project

Several years ago, I bought a Block of the Month complete package--reduced--at the quilt show in Jacksonville. It was the Maggie Walker Country Journal quilt. If I have actually made it, I would have had a medium sized quilt full of different kinds of chickens with a rooster in the center. It is hand appliqued and has lots of vines and flowers. Well, I did make a couple of blocks and sort of lost interest. And then I saw a table runner in a catalogue recently that had several roosters on it. And I said, "Hmm . . .looks good to me."
So, I dug out my finished blocks and made one more and then made the whole thing--three months worth--into a table runner. This picture doesn't look all that clear but I hope you get the idea (if you click on it to enlarge it you can see it better). I, of course, still have several months worth of chickens--and a rooster--left to make sometime, but I feel like I've made some progress. I have a chandelier over my dining room table that is a wrought iron rooster--so this goes QUITE well.
I want to thank all of you that held Smokey in your prayers this week. He came through the surgery quite well although he is very tired now. He can start back with a little walking tomorrow and each day he will feel better. We won't know for a couple of months whether or not the surgery was successful but the doctor feels that it was--so we're hoping for the best.
I did get a good start on writing the directions for my new quilt pattern while waiting for his release from the hospital the morning after the surgery and transferred it to the computer last night. I will proof read it tomorrow and make any necessary corrections. Now all I have to do is actually quilt the quilt. I'm working on it . . .