Speaking of the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge, I picked out my multi-color scraps for more elephants last
weekend (see this post), and finally started making them last night. I’m lovin’ the newest additions to the herd!
Only two are done, since I am undecided about the third
fabric. But I’m pretty sure I want to go
ahead and work with the directional rainbow fabric, so watch for that elephant
soon!
This is the quilting design I picked for the giant Project
Linus chevron top that I have mentioned:
It was a panto called Cool Beans and it stitched out
beautifully – nice easy curves. It’s
finally finished and already returned to the Project Linus local group – whew!
I must repeat that it’s such a joy to return
to smaller kid’s quilts … this one was 63 x 65 and seemed huge!
And in news of the weird, my poor dog has been in the
cone-of-shame this week:
Although the vet really couldn’t pin down the origin, she
somehow got an infection in her paw at the nailbed of one toe. I suspect that she either got cut when they
tried to trim the dark toenail or when trimming the fur between her paw pads,
or she cut herself on the sharp acorn tops due to the bazillion of acorns we
have had this year. I’m not kidding
about those acorns – they have been so abundant that it’s been hard for her to
walk on the grass – it’s been like walking on gravel around our pond and you
can’t avoid the oak trees that drop the acorns around here.
Anyway, after paying the ransom for antiseptic wipes, oral antibiotics
and an antibiotic ointment, she is doing much better. She only limps now when she has to go on the
grass and then it’s much less than it was.
She doesn’t limp anymore when walking on the sidewalk, so the cone might
come off tomorrow. She will be so happy!
