Sunday 11 April 2021

The next cot quilt! The Wiggles 'Big Red Car' for baby Ruby

Another one finished.

Quilt number 45 I think, I'll have to do a tally.

This is another great center panel with a pieced keyboard border .

It has a music theme backing and quilting.

I've taken it to show Miss Ruby, but then brought it home again as they are in the middle of renovating their house. I'll take it back when the house is finished, along with its partner quilt. 

The second quilt is amazing! The girls will be very excited about it, here's a hint - yellow and black bows - I have made dozens of intricate little cute patchwork Emma bows!

I have ALL the Wiggles on the label.

Its their 30th anniversary year.



For the first time I've in included a quilt journal. 

Although I've been jokingly calling it a instruction manual.

Here it is below with more info on the making of this quilt... let me know if there's any typos!












Sunday 4 April 2021

Introducing our new Granddaughter - Ruby! .....And remembering another Ruby...

 
Here is baby Ruby April, born on the 1st April 2021
and above is my boy with his 3 little girls.

Here I am at Tamworth Hospital with Ruby.



Both the above photos were taken at the same moment. Graham took one and Sean took the other.

Well, they have run out of names...

So if the name sounds familiar there once was another Ruby in my life!

It made me somewhat sentimental...

 

Here is Ruby as an old lady.

But, I held her in the palm of my hand seconds after she was born, and I had my hand on her when the vet put her to sleep. 

I miss you Rube. 

Her ashes are in a urn in the cupboard. She died in 2010 and was 15.

Above:- Here she is with Georgie Girl in the backyard at Richardson ave.

 Above:- Ozzie her half brother, Ruby in the middle and her Mum Beauie.

Above:- This is one of my favourite photos ever! 
This is how to get 5 dogs to pose together and all look at the camera at the same time.
'City dogs and country dogs'
Country dogs in the tray, city dogs in the front.
 At Coranga, Kentucky, NSW
 
Oh, and the ute was called Priscilla the Queen of Coranga. 
 
Ozzie - Beauie x the neighbours  (Bashfords) black Barb Kelpie... Accident!

Beauie - Ruby's Mum, pure bred red border collie, she was part blind in one eye, looked like she had some sort of injury, hit with a spade??? Don't know how. She came with the farm. But she was the smartest dog ever! I taught her to do tricks 
 
Ruby -  Beauie and Peters Daughter. She was the best of dogs. She could run up the sheep backs in the race,,, but then she got to fat to do that! ...Know how she feels.

Peter - Ruby's Dad, pure bred, very expensive and highly strung English Springer Spaniel. His aunt was top bitch at the Royal Easter show, but I bet there's lot of people who would like to give their aunts that title.
 
Marty - Miniature Fox terrier, "Don't let the kids go to bed I have a surprise for you"  said Greg on the phone. And when he got home at midnight he dropped a tiny little puppy on the bed. Which promptly wee-ed on the bed.. We called him Marty McFly after Marty in the Back to the Future movies. Marty went on for years and didn't die until we were in Richardson ave and is buried there.



And here is Ruby as a bigger pup.


This is Sean, Andrew and Beauie with all the pups. The boys are in their school clothes.
Amy, Beth, Meg, Jo, Ruby and Hugo. One died, I think it got suffocated in the crush.
 
The pink thing behind them? 
We had a wire cage, like a puppy play pen, and that was probably their wee-y blanket laid out to air.
 
Easy puppies to give away, free to good home. Very pretty, I could and should have sold them!

But then before we had a chance to recover, or get her de-sexed, she had a second  lot of puppies. 
This is where we got Ozzie from. But this time she had all these little black kelpie puppies,,, plus one very obvious spaniel puppy. 
A mixed litter! Again the little spaniel cross went to a new home first.