Sunny yellow scraps

Only a little bit of scrap sewing this week, but enough to feel satisfied I'm keeping up with my scrappy goals.  Although I technically made 2 churn dashes, it counts as one block, since I made a nested churn dash.

I've always liked the look of these, and decided it was time to have a go.  Although I have plenty of yellow scraps,they're either long narrow strips, or small scraps, and not big enough to cut a good sized centre block, and so it seemed a good idea to make the centre a feature. The centre block is 4"square finished, and the total block is 8.5 "unfinished.

I  also made a start on some crumb blocks.

I felt I was getting a bit stale and boring with my scrap sewing, and browsing around the blogs featured on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge Link-up, these Circle of Squares blocks on Kathy's Quilts Blog caught my eye, and so I made my first one this week......partly made as I haven't sewn the rows together yet. (pattern here) 

Kathy used the colour of the month for her backgrounds, but I didn't have enough of any one yellow to do that, decided white or off-white could be a bit ordinary, and then, having a good rummage, found some good size pieces of various greys that do the trick nicely, I think.  Kathy pieced her coloured pieces from crumb scraps, so I've tucked that idea away for next time.  Isn't Blogland wonderful for inspiration and ideas!

Linking up today with So Scrappy and ScrapHappy Day.  If scraps are your thing....or you'd like them to be.....check out these two scrappy links and you'll find lots of clever people doing wonderful things with their scraps.

.......till next time 

Not a good week

 for this girl 

Not feeling too good, thanks for asking

 My poor Mirrhi was attacked by a big brute of a dog last weekend. It was being walked on lead by a friend of the owner, who was unable to control the dog at all.  I saw them up the road a bit, on the other side, as we were out for our usual late afternoon walk, and had a bad feeling as I could see the woman was struggling to get the dog to do what she wanted. She was trying to get it to turn left down the road,but it had spied us across the road and was very determined to get to us. So she told the dog ok,we'll go say hello and headed our way, with me yelling at her not to, to stay away. I pulled Mirrhi backwards with me to get behind a nearby fence as that dog was coming at us like a runaway locomotive, the woman falling as it dragged her, and finally wrenching it's lead out of her hand.

  

It was pretty fast though and was on us so quickly, grabbed Mirrhi by the head growling and snarling and dragged her across the footpath and onto the road.  The rest's a bit of a blur......me initially thinking I'd wrench it's jaws open to make it let go.....it had such a strong grip on her......and then commonsense asserting itself as I realised having my hand in between the two dogs was not a good idea.... and so I resorted  to pummeling it's nose, to no avail. Meanwhile the woman was pulling the dog and shouting at it, with no success either, with my poor girl crying and yelping  something terrible. 

Just need to lay here on this comfy bed and sleep please

We were saved by Marnie from across the road, whose dog Bundy plays with Mirrhi all the time.  With quick thinking, she punched it really hard under it's tail, and it let go,but almost immediately tried to jump Mirrhi again. With Marnie's help, the woman was able to drag the dog away and hold it, while I took Mirrhi into old Merv's garage out of reach of the other dog, and checked her  for injuries.  There was blood everywhere,and all over my clothes, but I couldn't work out where she was hurt. It wasn't until we got home and I cleaned her up that I realised her ear was torn and punctured.

I dosed us both with Rescue Remedy and headed to the vet, who confirmed the damage to her ear, and she was sent home with heavy duty painkillers and antibiotics. She's been allowed short gentle walks, unlike our usual long hikes with lots of running and ball chasing. 
The dog minder gave me the wrong street number for the dog's owner.......not deliberately I don't think (I hope) just shaken up and not thinking properly. A friend and I went door knocking this morning but failed to find her. The ranger can't do anything without an address. I want her to pay my quite substantial vet bill, so track her down I will!  Apart from the injuries to Mirrhi, I'm now really reluctant to take her out in case we come across another dog, and just about have a panic attack if I do!

Being looked after by my best friend Neesa.

After feeling pretty shattered all week, exhausted, and not able to settle to anything, finally on Friday I decided it was time to do something, stumbled into my sewing  room and dug out the yellow scraps to make a start on April's churn dash blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I managed to finish two, then made 4 string blocks as well.

Not a bad start to yellow month.  As always, linking with So Scrappy Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  

Till next time, have a great week............