Eggcitement and Choices

I grew up around chickens so I know the sounds they make.  When they are just clucking around, when they are afraid and when they have laid an egg.  DH and I were preparing to go to lunch and he made a comment that they were making a lot of noise.  I told him that is not noise that is their sound they make after they lay an egg. 

No this is not one of mine.  My girls are pretty girls!  They are Buff Orpingtons.  Now most chickens produce an egg every 25 hours.  Which means that you should get an egg every other day.  Somehow we end up with an average of about 12 eggs a day from 16 chickens.  Shhh!  Don't ask don't tell.  What makes them such good layers?  May be the Pella window that gives them an outside view, the solar heater, or the new radiator the DH put in their pen to keep them toasty.  The fact they get fresh veggies and fruits on almost a daily basis, as well as some bread.  I don't know but they sure love DH.  They run up to get a pet on the back from him.

These are two of the eggs which we got today.  The girls layed 13 eggs yesterday and 14 eggs today.  DH gathers eggs every day. 

I am sure one of the girls is going to need one of those donuts to sit on after laying this one.  The egg on the right is almost an extra large it weighs in at almost 2 1/4 ounces.  

The egg on the left bottomed out our scale.

Yep that is over 3 ounces.  So we found the regular food scale.

Yep you can see that egg is almost 3 1/4 ounces!  It is huge!

While I blog, I am not much of a joiner.  It is hard for me to join a group, so the fact that I joined the quilt guild last year was quite the stretch.  Most of their quilts are traditional and mine are a bit "out there" when it comes to design choices and colors.  They have a group called "The Bag Ladies".  The premise is that you choose a block and several fabrics, enough that the bag of fabrics can be passed to 9 different ladies.  Every month you make your chosen block from their fabrics, and then pass it on to the next quilter, and whomever has your bag makes their chosen block from your fabrics. 

My dilemma?  I have to choose a 9 inch finished block and I cannot choose.  Part of the problem is that it is hard to find a 9 inch finished block.  What I would love is a Jacob's Ladder block.  Something which is low stress and easy for me to make each month?  What would be your choice?