OUR DOG PORSCHE !! Well i had a interesting week tuesday nite just gone, my lovely dog Porsche went into labour. Being she was a second hand dog and was given to us with a million lies from the person giving her away, just to get rid of her. We were looking for a companion dog for our Bundy who is a brindle purebred staffordshire bullterrior. We heard of a 2 year old female that was a give away , we never had any intentions of breeding her ( i didnt think HE would succeed lol). Anyway, we have had her since january 2007 and they had told us she was fully vaccinated and has had a litter of puppies, I didnt think anything of it until i rang her previous vet clinic and asked for her file to be sent to my vet clinic and the lady said "Oh she has never been vaccinated !" I almost died .
Then when she came into season and porsche and bundy did their thing. we noticed her scoffing her food and getting fatter, we took her to the vet and he said yes she is pregnant and she has 5 puppies inside of her.
That was all good on tuesday nite she started acting funny and i went to get a bottle of milk out of the freezer in the garage and looked down and saw she was bleeding, i yelled to my sister and as she walked in i saw a little black puppy in her bed with her, I thought to my self "ABOUT DAMN TIME " i had been a nervous expectant grand mother to be and was ready for it to be over with , i thought 4 more to go!.
It took her a hour and a half to push the next pup out it was BIG, we let her do her thing and we picked it up and rubbed it with a towel and unfortunately it was dead.
with in 3 minutes of her having that one she pushed another out, and so on for the next 4 she was sooo tired after that 6 but she was still contracting like she had another in her, we felt her body and we were sure she had one stuck but the vet said only 5. we thought we would leave her with her 5 live puppies 2 boys and 3 girls and let her get some rest she mite pop the other one out soon if we leave her alone.
i awoke extreemely early the next morning and went to check on my darling, but was still contracting and pushing at count there were still only 5.
I wasnt sure if it was natural for her to still be doing this as i have never owned a female dog before. so i rang my sister at hehehehehe 5am and said what do i do?
she said not much till the vet opens.
so we took her and her puppies to the vet and suzanna said yes she has one still inside her. she said leave her here and we will give her a calcium shot and a oxytocion shot to contract her cervix, see if that helps her push it out .
10am came and suzanna rang and said sorry we have to do a ceasar, to get the pup out. i said ok do it!
she rang me again at 12 noon and said i suggest desexing her at the same time as when i was taking the puppy out i noticed she had previously had a ceasar and her insides are a mess. " i said do what ever you need to do !"
in the end the puppy was dead another boy , if they all had of lived we would have had 4boys and 3 girls. but thats just natures way i guess. so babies are well and getting fat, 6days old and never get off the tit lol. mother is doing well with her belly full of stitches that looks like a very badly made quilt lol. will post pictures asap.
On friday i managed to get my first row of my sisters browns turning twenty quilt, i soon realised all along that i wasnt actually doing a turning twenty lol it is actually a pattern called yellow brick road ! my mistake ! so i hope to have that together by the end of the week lol. thats all for now.

Two good things came from this week.

two good things came from this week. #1 i finished my table runner, i did the binding in a maroon colour, and i quilted it in diagonal lines nothing fancy but i used a dark brown and grey varigated thread by birch. and the #2 is that i was asked by my good mate swooze if i would like to be a Op in our Quilt chat room , i was stoked to think that they ( the Op's) think i am a valid enuf member of our chat room to become a Op. so i contacted scrappy blue ! and am still awaiting the chance to chat to her about training times. THANK YOU SWOOZE !!!! i love ya chick!!. so anyway that is all for now will find something to blog about really soon
btw my table runner was made from my fq stash the only thing i bought for it was the batting, so i hope that satisfies the no buying rule lol winx.

My Little Shopping spree.

IM GOING SHOPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

News flash ! I finally get to go fabric shopping at the big fabric shop called "spotlight" in ROCKHAMPTON this saturday comming. darling hubby is letting me have $200 for my birthday as he found out how much quilting frames where from john watts he said no way to a $2600.00 machine frame lol.
so he gets out of a fortune with only having to give me $200 bucks, i dunno what im gonna buy but im sure i will find something hehehehe
things i mite buy or need.
* new blades for my 45mm rotary cutter.
* batting for small projects
* basting spray
* some varigated thread
* more calico - i do every quilt with calico as the back ground it is cheap and versatile.
* fabric dyes ( going to try my hand at some hand dying some calico for a quilt for ME!
thinking i mite buy some fabric for a black and white and blue mariners star quilt i want to make for myself
* the batting for that
and
maybe the batting for my sister inlaws dresden fan quilt so then it is finished and outa the way.
lol all dreams but if a quilter cant dream! what else is there to life for us?.
will post pics on sunday to show what i have bought.

Something New !!

here is a table runner i made last night , as i cut the pieces out the day before .

Its not quite finished yet still have to sandwich it and quilt it but heres the top anyway, couldnt wait to show it off.

its amazing what you get accomplished if you have 3 hours uninteruped time to your self !!!

CHECK THIS ONE OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahahaha! here is a picture of me when i was 11years old with santa, my mum bought it over with her when she came to visit last weekend . how embarressment !!!!!!

gee it was a long weekend!

What a long weekend we all had! friday we went shopping for darling daughters birthday presents and whilst we were out my loveable hubby bought me a tool box for all my quilting odd and ends as my you beaut singer box is too small for all of my stuff. so heres a picture of my tool box lol. while i was at it i took a pic of my fabric stash that was quickly chucked in the new storage box hubby bought me also. thought i better clear off all my fabric off the spare bed as my mother was turning up that night lol. (couldnt have her sleeping with my stash).

The next pic is of darling daughter on saturday in her new hi 5 outfit that she got for her birthday, another of darling daughter with her cake and one of her ariel (little mermaid) cake !

i didnt get a chance to do any sewing on the weekend as i had a house full of people all weekend and sunday and monday was hang over recovery days. Tuesday i put 2 borders on my dresden fan quilt but im not showing any of you until i have completed it now! so that will be a few weeks off. then i will post pics. then off to the sister inlaw for her to put on her bed. for how long i dont know but i hope it is for the rest of her life. allot of thumb skin went into that quilt , hand appliqueing the fans on the blocks all 100 of them lol.