Hmm. That's going to be a problem....
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♥Dec. 24th, 2017 // 01:32 pm♥
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This morning, I took Benny out for another hack, and we had a couple of nice canters up in the woods. Then I had to duck to go under a low branch, and learnt that Benny treats leaning forwards when hacking as a signal to canter.
Oops.
Yeah, going to have to work on training him out of that one!
Other than that, we had a nice (if tiring) time, although it didn't take as long as I was expecting: we were back in 45 minutes, when that route would have taken maybe an hour and a quarter on GB. Might have to do something to slow the walk down a little! Now that I think back, though, I remember the time when I was plodding along on GB and a nearby neighbour came up behind me, had time to say two sentences, and then vanished off in the distance, all without moving out of walk. She favours horses with the same breeding as we think Benny has....
GB did better this time than last, Mike reports, which is also good. Maybe we will be able to manage without the sedation in a few weeks more?
Benny's been doing well in the school as well. No massive progress yet, but we managed a visible leg yield the other day, and we've started on turn on the forehand. |
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New quilt
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♥Dec. 24th, 2017 // 03:58 pm♥
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This has been ticking over for a very long time (by my standards!): I'd been looking at some interesting modern quilts, and then there was a fabric sale in April where I picked up two bolts of different grey fabric, got mocked by the other shoppers, and went back for the teal as well.
Unfortunately, cutting out all the fabric for the lattice bit knackered my wrists, so I put the blocks away in a huff and only went back to it a month or so ago, when I found it while tidying up and realised that I almost had enough blocks sewn to make the lattice symmetrical-but-opposite, so I re-jigged a couple of bits to make that work. Then I pretty much just stuck other bits of fabric on (including some grey squares that I'd already cut before my wrists started complaining), carefully doing Hard Sums to make sure that it was just the right size so that I'd have enough fabric left over for the backing as well.
After I'd quilted it, I realised that my Hard Sums had been insufficiently hard, but fortunately I'd not emptied the bin in the office, so I did eventually manage to scrape together enough bits to do the binding as well! |
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