Another catch-up!

It was all about stars in my last post, and I have made several more for the Scrappy Star Adventure since then.

Another one using the Month 3 pattern —

And then three of the (new) month 6 pattern. A six inch version —

And two nine inch stars —

I quite like how this star floats in the middle of the block, which you can then fill up with other designs! 

That's 24 stars made now - I'm not sure how many I need, but a whole lot more than that! 

And I finished Block six of The Santa, The Tree, The Turkey and Me —

(Rudolf does actually have eyes but I may have to re-do them so that he can actually see where he is going!)

I joined the first six blocks together so that they can be displayed in the shop —

The seventh block goes along the top; I have made a start on it but haven't got a photo of it to share yet. I'll be able to get back to this project now as I have finally finished Lily's cardigan, which I started in June when we were on holiday. I had a bit of a pause while waiting for some more wool to arrive, and then it seemed to take me forever to sew up. We don't have as much sit-down time in the evenings at the moment so I'm blaming it on that!

*This* is the pattern for it.

I gave up on the Lazy Daisies, which are supposed to be in all the plain Stocking Stitch areas. Lily always comments when I wear clothing with 'pretty flowers' on it, so I gave her a few. But only a few!

On the farming front, calving has got quite busy. We have well over a third of the herd in now and are sending milk to the factory - it always seems to happen so quickly!

Some days are quite peaceful —

Others are more manic. We had 14 new calves on Saturday! Pretty much a record for us. Don't forget it's just Ma and Pa Kettle here looking after all these animals!

Here's what one day's worth of calves looked like on Saturday —

My calf shed quickly got full —

So I've moved the older calves to another shed. These ones now have a room with a view; I'll open the gate for them to enjoy the outdoors when the paddock dries up a little more.

And then a few days later I moved a second mob down there —

In between times we've had a nearly-flood. As you can see the bridge was impassable for a wee bit and there's always plenty of debris left behind. That created a bit of (very) early morning stockwork. We were back in bed by 5.30am!!!!

Another day the hot water cylinder at the cowshed packed it in. The easiest way to get hot water for my calf milk that night was to heat it on the BBQ. A very slow process!

The two calves below amused me - both born exactly the same day but one was twice the size of the other! Just like human babies, calf babies come in all shapes and sizes.

This morning all was well with the world. Happy animals - and not too many new calvers to deal with.

'til next time,

happy stitches,