This should really be a ScrapHappy post, but I couldn’t wait.
The Girls are now all laying, bar Lacey, who is clearly smaller and younger and not quite ready yet. One of them, and I can’t tell who, is laying e n o r m o u s double-yolked eggs. Take a look at this monster.
Most of the eggs weigh between 50 and 60 grams (1¾-2oz) each, but this huge one weighed 90 grams (over 3oz)! It’s the second one we’ve had, so clearly one of the Girls has it in her regular repertoire.
Anyway, now that I have more than one or two eggs to collect each morning, I wanted a container. I don’t want to put them in the empty scraps bucket as it’s a) usually dirty once I’ve emptied the scraps; and b) hard, and they’ll roll around and get cracked. So I decided something needed a quilted lining. Well, I would, wouldn’t I…? I had a small plastic ‘bucket-style’ basket which I could line.
And of course, it required chicken-themed fabric. Luckily, I had scraps left over from when I used this fabric for one of my Parterre blocks, and it was just enough to do the inside of the basket lining plus a couple of small ties to hold the lining in.
The back of the lining is scraps from the backing for the recently-completed Tyger quilt. The binding is scraps from the Floribunda quilt. The batting is also scraps from Tyger. See what I mean about it being a scrappy project?
Don’t the eggs look pretty? Who says practical has to be boring?
talltalesfromchiconia 
Oh my ! Oh my ! Oh my ! How I love this 😍
And yes absolutely nothing needs to be boring everrrrr 💝
The chicken fabric really makes it, I feel!
It’s all u 🤩… the fabric helps
😂
great basket liner, and sooooo useful.
thats a great basket liner, and so pretty.
Thanks! I wanted something that could be washed easily but not get grubby too quickly. Also, I didn’t need anything huge as we only have 5 Girls.
This is far snazzier than my straw-lined red plastic egg collecting bucket. Very cute.
I just cannot resist over-engineering stuff like this… It’s not like the hens give a damn!
oh wow! lovely egg basket!
I’m a lazy whotsit . . . I just collect eggs and bring back in my hands, since we’ve only got the 4 hens.
Generally, I have one hand occupied with the scraps bucket, and also need two hands to open and close the chicken run gate, so something to put the eggs in is very useful!
William Morris would certainly approve. It’s gorgeous.
I like to think so!
Oh you said that before I could! The old quote about “lovely and useful”.
Really it’s just bloody brilliant!
I try to live by that maxim. And the chickens, too, are both entertaining and useful – triple score, really, as they eat scraps, create compost and produce eggs too.
That is so cute!! That egg is huge! Hugs,
Isn’t it a monster? A double yolker, and VERY tasty.
Kate, you’ve out-done yourself – it’s eggactly right!
Ooooh, good one! And thank you!
I love your egg basket, that egg is eye wateringly enormous
I know! Imagine laying something so much bigger than normal, and a double yolker, too. Chickens are amazing birds.
They certainly are.
Now THAT’S an egg! Wowzers! The basket liner is perfect too. You are so creative! 🙂
It was larger than a standard Jumbo egg, which is saying something. Also quite remarkable in the first year of laying life, when generally the eggs are fairly small.
It looks lovely and very practical.
Pretty and practical is what I was aiming for!
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It couldn’t be anything other than chicken themed! Much more imaginative than the egg carton I used to take along in the feed bucket. And much more practical thsn the G.O. stashimg eggs in his jacket pockets…
I found the trouble with cartons is that the massive double yolk eggs don’t fit in them, plus they have no handle. And as for eggs in the Husband’s shirt pocket… let’s not go there. We’re up to 4 per day now, which isn’t bad for new hens in winter!
very very impressive!
Really? Um, well thank you!
Adorable egg basket
It works well, too, much better than having the eggs rattle around in something hard.