Block-a-day-July Day 20

To celebrate commemorate mark another night of rain, I thought I'd sew up the second block of the Raining Cats and Dogs row by Cakestand quilting —

And with the dog block ('scuse the shocking photo!) —

I've only just realised that I have sewn the cat's raindrops in upside down (anything is possible, right?!) so I guess fixing those up will be a job for tomorrow.

These blocks are sewn using the stitch and flip method, where you sew a square onto a unit on a diagonal, then trim it off. It looks a lot like foundation piecing but isn't. You have quite a few triangles leftover from the trimming, but in true Raewyn fashion I am collecting those for another project another day.

Two more churndashes as leader-enders while I was sewing today —

In spite of the rain overnight and first thing this morning we had only one more calf today (tally now 3) and a nice fine day to follow. A cousin of mine and her family visited this afternoon. It was nice to be able to walk around the farm in the sunshine - gumboots compulsory and only as far as the bridge as that is under water again. Just having a few cows and calves to tend meant that it was very easy for the city-folk to see what goes on without the stress of animals everywhere and the MOML and I busy-busy trying to get it all done!

In fact it was so nice we even opened the new roller doors on the calfshed so the two calves there could do a bit of sunbathing.

The shed now looks very flash from the outside - on this side anyway. We've realised it was the original old walk-through cowshed from years ago which was adapted for rearing calves in when the 'new' (and current) cowshed was built. The farm was established after WW2 so I guess this building has been around since then. 

Anyway,

'til next time,

happy stitches,