Dexters

My friend is house sitting for some friends of hers whilst they are on holiday. They have a few of one of my favourite breeds of cattle. I love Dexters, they look like normal cows but smaller. They are dual purpose beef and dairy animals and are famous for their ability to virtually being able to live on concrete. They're about the same height as Great Dane dogs. See the hand on the right of this photo to get an idea of scale. Most of them are black but occasionally there are red ones too.




They are often kept as pets, make good meat and good milk. From what I heard when I thought of getting one, the bulls are difficult to handle far more so than their bigger counterparts.

OOOPs! and a visitor

The foundation piecing is done, I laid it out on the bedroom floor and it measures approximately 95" wide. I don't remember how big I thought it would be, but definitely not this big. I want it to float and to have room to put a border on it. It will shrink a little with the seams but not a huge amount. I'll go back to the drawing, but that is less than a 1/4 of the finished star. It won't be difficult to down size, I'll just have to remove a few of the half square triangles.
This could have been avoided if a, I had drawn out more of the design and or b, if I had drawn it out in QuiltPro but since Christmas and my new PC, I haven't located the disc.

And in Fliss's bathroom along came this visitor.... He is huge but cannot get out. DH will rescue him and send him to the outside world.