Hi everyone!
Have you ever heard of a migrating chicken?
Well, this one flew all the way from Stowe in Vermont, USA.
His name is Ricardo the Rooster and he was found waiting to take off from Stowe Fabric & Yarn last month. I’ve seen these log cabin chickens many times on the web. This one was made by Deborah Stresing of Log Cabin Designs, Danville, Vermont, USA.
Ricardo was exhausted when he arrived here. He was so surprised to find a lady friend in the cold North-East of England.
They got clucking to each other…
… and found they had quite a bit in common 
And then they fell comb over scratchers in love!
The inevitable has happened 
Those cheeky chickens have stolen my new fat quarters from Montreal (and also my eggs). You didn’t really think they’d laid those ginormous eggs …. did you?
As you may have guessed, I made Mrs Chicken myself. I just had to make one. The only trouble is….. and please don’t mention this to Ricardo ….. Mrs Chicken has wanderlust. As soon as this brood has fully fledged, she is off to pastures new. She doesn’t know where she is going. In fact, she cannot even get a passport because she doesn’t have a proper name.
This is where you come in 
If you would like to win Mrs Chicken, all you need to do is:
1. Agree to make another chicken and give it away on your blog within 4 weeks of receiving your prize. Include a link back to ohsewtempting.wordpress.com so that all the chickens can appear in the Chicken Run Gallery which will include a link to your blog if you have one.
2. Leave a comment below to say what you would like to call Mrs Chicken, which country she would be going to and why she would feel at home there.
Mrs Chicken is made from very small scraps of fabric and a small amount of stuffing. She is 3.5 inches tall and stuffed with polyester batting. Please do not stuff your giveaway chicken with foodstuff or plant material as it may not be allowed into the country you are sending to.
It is important to let me know about every chicken that is hatched. Let’s see how many chickens we can get in the Chicken Run Gallery by the end of 2014.
This giveaway is open to everyone in the whole wide world until the end of 25th January (local time) and will be drawn using a random number generator. Numbers will be allocated in the order that comments are received. If I reply to any of the comments and the random number generator chooses my number, it will be redrawn. Mrs Chicken needs a holiday
Good luck!
Avis x
Oh Sew Tempting 
lisasff
/ January 11, 2014Oh! those are so cute! I’m not sure if I could make one. not yet, anyway!
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 11, 2014It’s easy! Just a series of one inch wide strips working round and round a centre square till you have a bigger square the size you want. Make two squares the same and sew together 🙂
lisasff
/ January 11, 2014Hah. That’s what you say. I’ve only make pockets so far.
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 11, 2014You’re getting there 😉
lisasff
/ January 11, 2014Yup, I am. But I won’t be there in 4 weeks! Lol!
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 11, 2014🙂
claire93
/ January 11, 2014lol so it’s Mrs Chicken who has been keeping you busy today ^^
what a wonderful idea – I’d like to sign up for the draw . . . I think I can manage log cabins on my machine
claire93
/ January 11, 2014just re-read and realised I need to add answers. Okay Mrs Chicken would be travelling to France (where the national bird just happens to be a Cockerel – so I’m sure she’d feel very much at home). To make life easier, a French name would therefore be more appropriate : Pierrette Poulette
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 11, 2014Yey! I knew I could rely on you to have a go 🙂 You are the current winner LOL Will anyone else enter, I wonder…
Lucie the Happy Quilter
/ January 11, 2014I love these chickens. I would name your girly chicken Lucky Clucky and she would be staying in the northeast of England. And I would love to piece a whole family of chickens as I have been collecting chickens of all description of years.
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 11, 2014Then she would be going to a great home and make lots of new friends 🙂
carla bynum
/ January 11, 2014Hi!!!! Around here she would probably be called FRIED!!!!! Hee hee Well I am in Kentucky,USA!!!!!! Maybe something less finger licking like chickie would make her feel more comfortable!!!! This will be so fun!!!!!
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 11, 2014Hi Carla, Now you have made me hungry LOL. Even KENTUCKY would be a great name. So far, you have a one in three chance of winning 🙂
Granny Maud's Girl
/ January 11, 2014Regardless of who wins the draw, making a chicken sound like good fun.
Mrs Chicken would be coming to Australia, where she wouldn’t be called something as formal as ‘Mrs’ anything, unless it was at the bank (or at the hairdressing salon in my gran’s retirement village). Perhaps she would just be Chooky – not very original, ends in y, typical Aussie nickname. For her to feel at home here, she might need to spend some time in your oven first to acclimatise. It is very hot here this week – over 40C yesterday and today (ugh).
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 11, 2014I can assure you I had a lot of fun in the sewing room this morning. It felt like one of those days when you just have to get the scrap box out to play with 🙂 I would be useless in 40C myself! It is about 4C here at the moment, a bit chilly in the mornings. My brother lives in Australia on the Gold Coast so he will be frying tonight no doubt 🙂 Good luck!
Granny Maud's Girl
/ January 12, 2014We just had the hottest night on record, a min of about 30, but your brother is 4000 km away and safe from this freak heat wave. It is not usually this unpleasant. At least the washing is drying quickly today.
Do the chickens have a pattern or is it just a case of two log cabin blocks (any size), a couple of prairie points, a beak and a comb? I might be tempted to start playing in my scrap box. After all, it is too hot to go outside!
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014There’s no pattern, just two log cabin blocks as you guessed. First cut a one inch square for the centre and then cut one inch strips for the surround. If you choose to make a different size, that’s up to you. Just be aware you will need to post it if you win. I hope you can find somewhere cool to sew today 🙂
Granny Maud's Girl
/ January 14, 2014Thanks! Will do.
Deborah
/ January 11, 2014I absolutely love this idea! I am not looking to be in the draw, but I love the entries and the idea of these chickens going all over the world. Awesome! 🙂
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014My daughter has been looking for geocaches and I was wondering whether the cache idea could be translated into some sort of patchwork travel bug. If you haven’t heard of geocache, just Google it. There are a few in Taiwan. That would be a great thing to share with your students I think. My initial idea was to have my chicken being passed around the world and to put it on a Google Map of all the locations it had reached. Then I came up with this idea instead which is nicer because the participants all get a chicken to keep 🙂
Deborah
/ January 12, 2014My brother and his family do geocaching. And my daughter sent laminated squirrels around to a few places last year, with the idea that each person would photograph the squirrel doing a few interesting things and then pass it on to others. The photos were posted on a Facebook page. I had my Japanese exchange students take Mr. Squirrel on their field trips around Taiwan, and he got left on a bus, never to be heard from again. The students felt so bad to have to come back and tell me, but they did have great fun with him. Maybe I need a chicken for this year’s group. They arrive mid February. 🙂
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014So does that mean you are now in the draw 😆
There is always the risk that the geocache trail will end abruptly which is sad. It may well happen to the chicken run but it has already been fun today and I’m sure there’ll be some more entertaining comments over the next couple of weeks.
Deborah
/ January 12, 2014No. As you saw in my plate spinning post, I cannot take on any more plates. I have two quilting projects going right now, and even though the chicken wouldn’t be time consuming, that is my problem. I keep taking things on because they are cool and wouldn’t take much time. But multiply that by 3,651 and it becomes unmanageable. 😉
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014😆 I understand 🙂
stitchinggrandma
/ January 12, 2014Well; I think Mrs. Chicken should travel to Delaware, USA; where we honor the BLUE HEN CHICKEN as our State Bird! Every where you look there are Blue Hen Chickens. If I was to find Mrs Chicken in my mail box, I would call her Mrs Lonely…because she would be upon leaving dear RIcardo the Rooster! She would be a delightful addition to my happy sewing space, and it will be fun to make one to send!
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014I thought I was having a really silly moment as I wrote this post because my other half shook his head in disbelief as he read it 😆 Now that you are all entering into the spirit with me, I know I’m not the only one who likes to have a bit of fun. So far two places have these birds as mascots. I wonder whether there are any others… Avis x
Deborah
/ January 12, 2014Our other halves often shake their heads in disbelief, but it doesn’t ALWAYS mean we are crazy. 😉 On the other hand, I don’t really want anyone calculating the odds. 😉
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014That’s what it usually means for me 😆
basildonkitchens
/ January 12, 2014What a great idea. I love it. I’m in! I would call Mrs Chicken, Penelope. I think it suits her. If she comes to live with me, that would be in Ontario, Canada.
I love making these ‘girls’!
Connie 😃
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014Could she be Lady Penelope as in ThunderBIRDs? Not sure whether you would have had Thunderbirds in Canada. I’m going to make more too. This one is my first 🙂
debbierose.horoba@gmail.com
/ January 12, 2014Ok I am in. Being a child of the 60’s loving everything fun, I think her name would be Denise. Now if you were Aussie you would know a TV Icon called Denise Drysdale a go-go dancer who made the “chicken” walk impersonation famous here. If you google or U-tube & cannot find her, I can send you a link. A cosy home in Victoria waits.
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014Lovely to have you playing along! Wow, it looks like I have a new fitness guru. That go-go dancing will be brilliant aerobic exercise for me 😉
witchylin
/ January 12, 2014I would call her Mrs Cluckerbuck. I’d be happy to make another one and give to someone on the blogs I follow if that works?
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 12, 2014Ah! You’ve just highlighted a problem. What happens if the winner doesn’t have a blog? How can they host the giveaway of their chicken? So, in that case, I’ll host the giveaway here on their behalf and the next winner will be chosen by random number generator as usual. Are you up for that? Thanks for highlighting this for me 🙂 Great name and good luck!!
witchylin
/ January 18, 2014I think that would work Avis. There must be a few followers who don’t have blogs but would love to join in the fun. 🙂
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 18, 2014I certainly hope so 🙂
Isabel's Needleworks
/ January 13, 2014Love this idea..I’m in 🙂 its so cute. mmm what to call her? Canuck Cluck? lol or Alberta ! Here in Alberta Canada she might feel a little “cooped” up with the cold winters here…its been -25 to -30 C. We even had -40C a couple of weeks ago. I have a gazillions projects on the go but what’s one more little chick eh? 🙂
…. Izz
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 14, 2014Sounds like she will be a frozen chicken if she comes to live with you! Thanks for taking part 🙂
rutigt
/ January 13, 2014Cute chickens! I´m not gonna participate, but I like your idea 🙂
Gun, Sweden
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 14, 2014Thanks Gun. Enjoy making all of your other wonderful projects 🙂
carla bynum
/ January 14, 2014Hi!!!! Me again!!!! So don’t count both of them!!!!!! Can we use one of your pics to post about the fun on our blogs!!!!! Thank You
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 14, 2014Of course you can 🙂 Just put a link back to this post in the text. The more, the merrier!
claire93
/ January 18, 2014have just done an article on my blog, so don’t be surprised if you get some French players lol
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 18, 2014Yep, just seen it. Thanks for the publicity Claire 🙂
Patch
/ January 18, 2014I’m sure I already replied to this but I can’t see it! (I just updated the iPad and it looks all different and I can’t work it… That will teach me!). Well here I am again! She looks like a Delia to me… No reason, it’s just what jumped into my head when I saw her. I’m only in Yorkshire so she wouldn’t be going far, handy for popping back again if she’s feeling homesick.
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 19, 2014I like that name for a chicken! I imagine she would find a nice rooster to keep her company in your neck of the woods. Good luck!
textiledreamer
/ January 18, 2014If she comes to live with me, she’d be called Wide-Wide-Wenn, because this reminded me of an old German folk song. She’d be visiting a big city in Germany, where there’s lots of interesting things to see.
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 19, 2014I thought I only had one reader from Germany! Now I know I have at least two 🙂 Thank you for visiting and taking part. The song is fun. We have a lot of folk songs here too. Good luck for next week 🙂
zooperson
/ January 21, 2014What a clever idea and what fun to see the coop expand. I’m not in the running, but just wanted to say Bravo to your plan.
Oh Sew Tempting
/ January 24, 2014Thank you. I’m pleased you like the idea 🙂 Not long now before Mrs Chicken takes flight!