Three rows done!

     I have three rows put together!!!  I have recrereated this quilt several times.  Took it completely apart two times.  I have come to not like this quilt.  Not even a little bit.  Ever like something a lot and then when you have to look at it all the time decide you don't like it as much?

     That is how I feel about this quilt.  I have tore it apart 2X's.  Redesigned it three times.  Thought and worried about it a lot over the last year.  I kinda hoped that my son would not like what I had come up with but he liked it.  So I will finish it, but no bets on how long it will take me to finish.

     After attaching the last row, I will square it and then work on the boarders.  Since I have shrunk the size of the quilt by the way I sewed it, I need to add an extra boarder.

     I will put the boarders together and then quilt them before I had them to my quilt.  Not sure how many boarders or the size of them until I measure the rows put together.

    My friend offered her space and her wonderful skills to help me finish the quilt.  She and my other friend has helped me with every quilt I have created.  I am going to try and finish it myself but I just might be over to her house so I can get it done and out of my house!  What wonderful friends I have.

     No pictures yet.  want to complete the quilt before I take pictures.  Next quilt I will try to post pictures of each step.  Again, no promises.

     Had a water leak in the pipes in one of the bathrooms.  Hubby fixed the pipes and the insurance adjuster will be here Tuesday.  What fun we have.

     I just about have enough money to fix the floor in my work space and the rest of the house.  I am so excited!!!  Had to save it up and it will worth every penny.  Will post pictures when I get it done.
 

Row's Done for son's quilt and more!

     I finally got the 5 rows done for Son's quilt.  Now I need to decide how to put them together to create the quilt.

     Do I do it the same way as I did the rows?  OR  Do I do it different?  Doing it different requires sitting down and thinking.  That will cause me to get a headache LOL.  

      Some of the strips I cut are not the same width all the way down the strip and I am out of that material.  I have plenty other material to recut the strips.  So I think I will lay the materials down between the rows and see if I like it.  I can scan in the material into the computer and pictures of the rows and then play with them.  Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..  That sounds like a good idea!

    We have sorry in our house.  Our wonderful companion has gone to the Rainbow Bridge.  He was in a lot of pain.  The Vet took pictures and his leg bone had cracked by the joint in the hip.  Doc was going to do surgery so we left him.  Next day Doc called and told us our friend had cancer and it was all thru his hip.  There was one bubble and it popped.  Only once choice if we were humane.

     Hubby went up to the vet's to tell him goodbye.  I was at the doctors and could not be with him.  He was hubby's friend and went everywhere with him.  They took long walks when we went camping  Our life was blessed with Shadow.

     Friend and I went to fabric warehouses on Friday.  Another friend was suppose to go but she got sick.  We had a lot of fun.  I didn't find what I was looking for, but I found something.  She found BUTTONS!!!!!  She is a button person (that is putting it nicely LOL)  The buttons were cheaper and wonderful!!  We will definitely go back!!

     Had lunch at a little restaurant.  Had great conversation and lots of laughter!  It is always good to be with my peeps, even one peep.  It lifts my spirit and gives me warm fuzzies!!!

You all have a wonderful week.  Hopefully quilt will be done tomorrow.  Tuesday is granddaughter day!!! YEA!!!!

Shadow our lab fur baby

   Thursday we took Shadow to our vet.  He was limping really bad on his right rear leg.  We knew he had hip displasia *arthritis) in both hips.  This time, tho, he has in a lot of pain.  He wouldn't eat or drink.  Did not even want a treat.  We were worried we were going to lose him.  He is 11 years old and appears to be mentally alert until now.

   Now this big boy loves his vet and his vet's office.  He usually gets excited to see everyone.  We had trouble getting him into the 4 runner.  Finally I just told hubby we need to put him in the car.  Well we got him on the floorboard in the front.  He was not happy and he was laying on his sore hip.

   Hubby was giving him pain pills just about every day by now.  We had to take him in for testing before he could get any more.  The vet started to check him out.  He needed to get him to roll over so he could look at the hip.  He started to roll him and Shadow barred his teeth, turned quickly to the vet and if the vet's arm had been closer he would have bit him.  That is how much he was hurting.

   Finally hubby got him to stand.  Shadow had to be muzzled and Hubby held his head between his legs.  Even them he growled.  Yes he was in pain so the doc upped his meds and sent us home.  Hubby started him on the pain pills right away.

   It appeared that the pills were helping him but he still did not want to eat or drink.  I went to spend Saturday night with the granddaughter.  Hubby called me at 7:30 am and told me he did not think Shadow was going to make it.  He said about 2 am Shadow let out a horrible cry of pain.  Hubby got him to quite down and they both went back to sleep.  At least he thought so.  When he got up in the morning Shadow was not in his bed.  Hubby did his normal routine and then went looking for him.

   He found Shadow on the other side of the home all curled up in a corner.  It was freezing.  We have a doggie door and Shadow had not come back in.  Hubby got him in the house and them came for me.  There is a vet right by us and our vet was not open.  We were both thinking that the pain was to great and our Shadow was on his wan to cross the rainbow bridge.

  I went in and asked if they could see our baby, or course I was crying like a baby (which I swore that I would not do).  Yes they saw him and the vet prescribed him some extra pills that would help and suggested we do shots.  He has had success with this treatment so we agreeded.

   Today we went back to the vet's thinking our baby was going to get a shot.  Insted the vet asked if he could have any xrays from our regular vet and he wanted to take more.

   Okay, we left Shadow there.  This afternoon we went back to talk about the xrays. We figured it was bad news and tried to prepare ourselves.  It was bad news.  Shadows bone had cracked and broke away from the joint..  Doc said that he could fix it, he has done it before successfully.  So our baby is at the vets and all drugged.  He should have a good rest tonight.  The surgury is tomorrow.

   If there are no complications, Shadow will be up tomorrow.  We will have to make sure that he walks so the cartlidge can rearrange the bone where it should be.  We are praying there is no cancer.  He will still need pain pills for the rest of his life but the quality of his life will be good.  He talked about hip replacement but we just can't afford that.  Being retired our funds are limited.  We will do everything that we can for him. 

This is Shadow  125 lbs

 

 

 

    He is a wonderful friend and companion.  I would really love to have him around a little bit longer.

 

It is in Doc's and God's hands now.  If it is his time then I will have to accept that but I can tell you that it will breat my heart.   More tomorrow after the operation.