Just realized that one of my goats is due on Tuesday.... (knew it had to be soon...just looked it up)
She DOES NOT LOOK PREGNANT!!!!!
Kids tried to be positive...said maybe it is just one tiny one. Humpf.
I guess we will "feel her up" today and tomorrow... ..... and then keep our fingers crossed. Stupid seasonal breeding goats...if she isn't bred...that means no milk from her until Christmas at the earliest. Who wants kids at Christmas? I do NOT have a heated barn....can't even get the blasted doors to close all of the way. And dang will I be upset...feeding a non-producing animal......
Luckily the goat due the 20th is clearly pregnant...getting round....bagging up.....hurrah.
She purchased all the fabric. She actually purchased a yard of 2 fabrics that she didn't like at all once I had cut them up, so... back to the drawing board. She likes it now. The 3 horses walking were a silhouette she found on google. I blew them up and used them as templates to cut fabric out of to applique onto the white parts.
SCG.. you piece all of that together first right? I don't make these, I have only done the tie quilts. Just used the rack. My daughter just made a really cute one for my little sis that is mantally handicapped..soo, I got to watch her do some. She sent photos to me as she cut out the pieces, then sewed them together. Man, looks like a lot of work. I love that horse one! I love horses! I love the colors she chose!
Will find a photo of the quilt my daughter just made. I only wanted the squares. She offered to do other things, but I just wanted a very colorful but simple quilt. My sister loves color!!
Can't find one..will have to go get a photo from our messages. In the meantime, here is an afghan that she made for her for Christmas. Told you..she loves colors!
That afghan is beautiful, and a lot of work went into it. I crocheted when I was younger and it always seemed to take forever.
The quilts that I make, you start with cutting out fabric, then sew it together.
It is interesting how much the quilt changes as you add more details to it and change things around. This was when I first started arranging the tumblers on the floor and before she decided she didn't like 2 of the fabrics she chose:
to it without horses and then without borders:
And then how different it looked with what I posted yesterday - with the borders. She was getting worried that she wasn't going to like it when she saw pictures early on of it. I kept telling her to just wait. She likes it now, a lot.
I really don't like sewing "for profit" - there's many decisions that go into a quilt - color, placement, etc. When making a for profit you worry whether the other person will like it, and often they don't because the quilt in the early stages looks nothing like it will look when it is done. I don't think I'm going to take on any more "profit" work.
Today I will hopefully get the backing pieced together and get it sandwiched together to start quilting it. I am teaching a friend to quilt over facebook messenger - we made our first block yesterday. The block probably would have taken 20 minutes for me to put it together if I was working on it alone. We started at 7 am and finished at 9 pm (with some breaks... but I got a lot of laundry and dishes done, plus the borders put on the horse quilt while I was waiting for her to "now repeat that process two more times.") but she's pleased with her block. She wants to start block 2 today. I don't think I have any more chores.
Al, I've got those seasonal breeding goats, too, and it's a pain. Seems like mine only go into heat when it's inconvenient (I'm working the night shift/weekend or we're getting a blizzard/ice storm). We don't have a buck here, so I have to get the goat(s) into the car and travel to a boyfriend. Needless to say, no baby goats here.
Keep us posted on yours.
She purchased all the fabric. She actually purchased a yard of 2 fabrics that she didn't like at all once I had cut them up, so... back to the drawing board. She likes it now. The 3 horses walking were a silhouette she found on google. I blew them up and used them as templates to cut fabric out of to applique onto the white parts.
That afghan is beautiful, and a lot of work went into it. I crocheted when I was younger and it always seemed to take forever.
The quilts that I make, you start with cutting out fabric, then sew it together.
It is interesting how much the quilt changes as you add more details to it and change things around. This was when I first started arranging the tumblers on the floor and before she decided she didn't like 2 of the fabrics she chose:
to it without horses and then without borders:
And then how different it looked with what I posted yesterday - with the borders. She was getting worried that she wasn't going to like it when she saw pictures early on of it. I kept telling her to just wait. She likes it now, a lot.
I really don't like sewing "for profit" - there's many decisions that go into a quilt - color, placement, etc. When making a for profit you worry whether the other person will like it, and often they don't because the quilt in the early stages looks nothing like it will look when it is done. I don't think I'm going to take on any more "profit" work.
Today I will hopefully get the backing pieced together and get it sandwiched together to start quilting it. I am teaching a friend to quilt over facebook messenger - we made our first block yesterday. The block probably would have taken 20 minutes for me to put it together if I was working on it alone. We started at 7 am and finished at 9 pm (with some breaks... but I got a lot of laundry and dishes done, plus the borders put on the horse quilt while I was waiting for her to "now repeat that process two more times.") but she's pleased with her block. She wants to start block 2 today. I don't think I have any more chores.
Al, I've got those seasonal breeding goats, too, and it's a pain. Seems like mine only go into heat when it's inconvenient (I'm working the night shift/weekend or we're getting a blizzard/ice storm). We don't have a buck here, so I have to get the goat(s) into the car and travel to a boyfriend. Needless to say, no baby goats here.
Keep us posted on yours.
Just realized that one of my goats is due on Tuesday.... (knew it had to be soon...just looked it up)
She DOES NOT LOOK PREGNANT!!!!!
Kids tried to be positive...said maybe it is just one tiny one. Humpf.
I guess we will "feel her up" today and tomorrow... ..... and then keep our fingers crossed. Stupid seasonal breeding goats...if she isn't bred...that means no milk from her until Christmas at the earliest. Who wants kids at Christmas? I do NOT have a heated barn....can't even get the blasted doors to close all of the way. And dang will I be upset...feeding a non-producing animal......
Luckily the goat due the 20th is clearly pregnant...getting round....bagging up.....hurrah.
SCG.. you piece all of that together first right? I don't make these, I have only done the tie quilts. Just used the rack. My daughter just made a really cute one for my little sis that is mantally handicapped..soo, I got to watch her do some. She sent photos to me as she cut out the pieces, then sewed them together. Man, looks like a lot of work. I love that horse one! I love horses! I love the colors she chose!
Will find a photo of the quilt my daughter just made. I only wanted the squares. She offered to do other things, but I just wanted a very colorful but simple quilt. My sister loves color!!
Can't find one..will have to go get a photo from our messages. In the meantime, here is an afghan that she made for her for Christmas. Told you..she loves colors!
that is beautiful... mom was the crocheter... she would do it while watching TV... Made me a dress once and lined it with silk because it would have been completely see through....
Best I could do was hats and bags... but I did do an Afghan in White... Using the afghan stitch... Looks like a long knitting needle with a crochet hook on the end. I started it when I was about 24 and finished it when I was about 34. iF I had stuck to it the whole thing would have taken about a week.
She purchased all the fabric. She actually purchased a yard of 2 fabrics that she didn't like at all once I had cut them up, so... back to the drawing board. She likes it now. The 3 horses walking were a silhouette she found on google. I blew them up and used them as templates to cut fabric out of to applique onto the white parts.
That afghan is beautiful, and a lot of work went into it. I crocheted when I was younger and it always seemed to take forever.
The quilts that I make, you start with cutting out fabric, then sew it together.
It is interesting how much the quilt changes as you add more details to it and change things around. This was when I first started arranging the tumblers on the floor and before she decided she didn't like 2 of the fabrics she chose:
to it without horses and then without borders:
And then how different it looked with what I posted yesterday - with the borders. She was getting worried that she wasn't going to like it when she saw pictures early on of it. I kept telling her to just wait. She likes it now, a lot.
I really don't like sewing "for profit" - there's many decisions that go into a quilt - color, placement, etc. When making a for profit you worry whether the other person will like it, and often they don't because the quilt in the early stages looks nothing like it will look when it is done. I don't think I'm going to take on any more "profit" work.
Today I will hopefully get the backing pieced together and get it sandwiched together to start quilting it. I am teaching a friend to quilt over facebook messenger - we made our first block yesterday. The block probably would have taken 20 minutes for me to put it together if I was working on it alone. We started at 7 am and finished at 9 pm (with some breaks... but I got a lot of laundry and dishes done, plus the borders put on the horse quilt while I was waiting for her to "now repeat that process two more times.") but she's pleased with her block. She wants to start block 2 today. I don't think I have any more chores.
Al, I've got those seasonal breeding goats, too, and it's a pain. Seems like mine only go into heat when it's inconvenient (I'm working the night shift/weekend or we're getting a blizzard/ice storm). We don't have a buck here, so I have to get the goat(s) into the car and travel to a boyfriend. Needless to say, no baby goats here.
Keep us posted on yours.
Carolina wood ducks. We found two ducklings and fostered them. Sister flew off and found a mate. Duck Duck thinks she's a chicken and goes back to the coop each night.
