Block-a-day-July Day 31

It's fanfare time!! I got through the month of making at least one block a day EVERY DAY.

I mostly blogged every day too - with the exception of a few days at the start and then some days where the blogpost was next morning instead of late night.

But in my mind I did it, and all it was, was a silly challenge to myself to spur me on with my sewing and blogging.

Thanks for following along, your visits and comments - they meant a lot to me. I have big plans to catch up on my replies, answer some of your questions and reciprocate visits too!!!

As my grand finale, I was going to make a cow block. There's a rather sweet one in Lori Holts' Farm Girl Vintage 2.

Very fitting with what's been going on around here lately!

I did make a start —

Today we moved the older 10 calves down to another shed, where there's more room. The main calf shed is starting to fill up now so the move is necessary in the interests of good hygiene. Over crowded calves pick up and spread bugs too easily —

YD and her family popped out. They made us lunch, they helped with some farm work. They helped with the calves. 

It was a glorious afternoon to have those roller doors up!

Tonight I have sewn another hexie rosette —

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Block-a-day-July Day 30

In spite of the busy day, there were no dramas, and with a pile of body parts already partially assembled, it didn't take me long to whip up 8, eight, eight, YES EIGHT more churndashes!!!!!

That dark one looks black; it's actually a very deep Japanese indigo colour.

This post is dedicated to Chooky who has sent out an email telling us to keep sewing and counting our blocks for the Churndash SAL. Apparently we signed up so that we'd get nagged motivated to keep on track.

Here is my family of blocks so far. They're all 6" blocks. Except of course, one 12" block —

(Not the best photo colour-wise, but you get the idea!!)

Final day of my challenge today! Yesterday's post has snuck into today but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll squeeze the final post into today as well!

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Block-a-day-July Day 29

The beady eyed amongst you will notice that some of my block-a-day-posts have been written first thing in the morning, whilst having my first coffee and before the day gets busy (I'm an early bird, not a night owl). 

The beady-eyed amongst you will notice that this morning's yesterday-post is even later!!!

I did make my block yesterday, as planned, but once it was finished there were cows and calves to tend and I ran out of daylight. Not normally a problem as a lot of my block photos have been taken 'afterhours'.

This one, though, demanded that I take a properly lit photo. So it had to wait until after this morning's chores for that!

I completed the partially sewn 'block' for the top of Memory Lane, which I blogged about *here*. Strictly speaking it's not a block and I could be claiming for about 4!

I just have the three corresponding sides of this quilt to do - they'll be similar but with different sized and shaped stitcheries.

The morning chores included feeding these critters first thing —

At the moment the MOML is helping with these in the morning as we're not yet milking then. Another couple of days and we will start the twice-a-day milking regime, and will be nearly ready to send milk to the factory.

In the meantime I appreciate his help with feeding the calves; they're about the last ones he'll feed for the season!

After breakfast we tended to these cows —

and these —

and these (plus opened the doors for sunbathing calves!)—

Just as I thought the coast was clear and I could whip inside to photograph and blog, we had some small visitors. They came out to stock up on firewood, but also ended up having a nice little play and a visit with the calves —

'til next time,

happy stitches,