I hope everybody had a safe and happy New Year. Hopefully, this new year will bring many good things your way. New Years was a mixed blessing for me. My son awoke that morning to find that Savannah had a prolapesed anus. Of course, this is a thing you need your vet for right away and of course, it is a holiday. We cleaned the area up and put a dressing of saturated sugar solution on it. I was hoping that this would shrink it up some and make it easier to put back in and keep it moist until she could get to the vet. Since my vet wasn't going to be back until Tuesday, I got a referal to another one. Boy, I wish I knew him when Georgia was sick! He found that Savannah had a tumor which probably contributed to the prolapse. If he operated and put it back in, she would still probably die. So, we had to make that painful call to put her down. It was a bit of a shock since we walked in expecting emergency surgery and walked out with a dead pet. My last picture of her is with her dressing, so it looks like she's wearing a large diaper.
I managed to get a start on my SAL with my
DSIL. The piece is Letters, Leprechauns, and Luck by Blue Ribbon Designs. My SIL isn't doing the exact same piece, but she's doing 6 Bats and a Witches Hat which is the same size. We're aiming to do two blocks a week. I know this isn't much, but it allows us to work on other pieces as well. I'm doing this on 32 ct. Tundra linen by Lakeside Linens.
I'm also working on a Christmas ornament for next year. It is a complimentary chart by
Plum Pudding Needlearts. I'm doing this over one on a piece of overdyed
Lugana. The white contrasts real well when I put the whole skein on the fabric, but boy trying to work on it with one strand, I'm going blind!! I'm continuing to work on Red Thread. I'm a bit further on the Maypole, however, I had two mistakes that I needed to frog so I'm not much further than the last image. So, no pictures today.
May your jump back into the reality of life on Monday be easy.
Cheers,
5 comments:
I'm so sorry to hear about Savanah, although it sounds like you were lucky in getting the vet you did to look at her. It is so hard to lose a pet, and you've had to deal with it twice recently.
Your new start looks great, and you're already ahead of me. I think I need to get a bit more stitching in. Fa La La is looking very cute too. The fabric is great with it, although I can see how working with the white on it would be a bit of a challenge. Thanks for the link, I now have the pattern in my stash as well.
Sue
Really sorry you lost your pet, that's hard.
Your stitching is very nice :)
I'm such a pet person...any pet is hard to put down! I'm sorry to hear about that. Hope the new year brings you many blessing!
That's so sad about Savannah! {{HUGS}} for you. Hope this year has a few less sorrows for you and many more joys! I look forward to seeing your stitching!
I'm so sorry to hear about Savannah, Kim... {{{Hugs}}} to you!
Your SAL with Sue is off to a wonderful start! I just love these designs and you girls are sooo enabling me!
I love your Plum Pudding Fa La La... I downloaded it a couple of weeks ago and really want to stitch it up as soon as I can find a pass through to the other side of my mountain of WIP's... ;-)
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