First, an update on Sultanna this morning.
I'm all unpacked from Midwest Mini Mayhem and just have to heft those tubs up onto the high shelves in the closet. I am still in physical therapy for my shoulder so I may ask Craig to do that for me. It's always nice to wrap up a really good show and settle back into normal, still smiling as you do.
The show may be over, but I spent yesterday working on more haversacks for Midwest Mini Mayhem. They were short three more champs and reserve pouches, and luckily I had fabric left from making the others.
Those are done, and I will pack them up and send them out to their winners this afternoon.
I'm also thinking ahead to next year. I had some of this fabric in stock from another project and cut and stitched some Stablemate haversacks to see how they looked.
Oh, I liked them a lot. Wouldn't they be nice for next year's show champs and reserves?
I went ahead and made three of each up and I'll show them to Kerri, Shannon, and Kerry (MMM show holders.) If they don't want them, I will sell them in Horsiemama's Mercantile.
An order of new fabric for haversacks arrived recently, and before I'd even opened the package, I'd received an email from the company apologizing and saying that an error had been made, defective fabric had been sent, and that they would replace it for free right away.
They weren't kidding!
Legs were cut off of some of these horses.
And these poor horses were cut in half!
I'd ordered a Stablemate scale print and got the 1:6 (Marx Thunderbolt) scale.
Not sure what to make of this defective piece and why there is so much white fabric rather than printed fabric.
The replacement order is scheduled to arrive on Monday; in the meantime, I am working at making new haversacks - between Indy Blooms and Midwest Mini Mayhem, I have very few left in stock.
My next show is Marilou Mol's in August, so I have some time, but The Feast of the Hunters' Moon is also approaching and I have to get back to my 18th century sewing, too.
Lisa, Leslie, and me in our 18th century riding habits at The Feast.
Lots to do, but it's a good lots to do.
The May Give Away is coming - stay 'tooned!
It's funny but from that picture angle, Sultanna's belly doesn't look look huge at all!
ReplyDeleteToo bad about the fabric but the company seemed to jump in right away to correct their mistake.
It can be hard to tell from the front but the best signs of imminent foaling should see the topline of her rump sag, her tailbone should be more flexible and her vulva will begin to distend/dilate. These are all things I expected to see one to three days before foaling. Udder filling can happen early, I've seen mares drip away all their colostrum weeks before they foaled, and it can be late, I've also seen mares that didn't bag up until the foal was on the ground. The best signs though in a broodmare with multiple foals under her belt is herself, they often follow the same patterns every time and it's why a lot of breeding farms note what signs show up on what dates in their records so that if they foal that mare again they have an idea of what to expect. Those fabrics are a hoot, congrats on your results at the show! AJG
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