Pillowcases and Winston's Revenge...

Yesterday was a very nice day.

I was up early, van packed and off to pick up Patty Nafzinger from church and then to Ephrata to meet Sheila Williamson at Piece By Piece Quilt Shop to use their fabric kits and their classroom to sew pillowcases for the Hershey Medical Center where they give them to children who are admitted.  The child gets to select the pillowcase of their choice and then take it home with them when they go home.  I have heard that they go through over 500 pillowcases per month.  Anyway, we try to go in monthly to make some.... not many, but usually about 20+ each session.  We keep trying to get more of our fellow sewers to come join us, but they always seem to be too busy to help.

Winston woke up Saturday all bright-eyed and bushy tailed.  He was bouncy and happy and showing nothing of the strange dog that he had been on Friday.  He was almost looking forward to being able to have a day with Mom... or so it seemed, so I was very unhappy to have to put him in his crate for the better part of the day.

His crate sits in the living room.  It is covered with a woven throw that was from the house in Maryland.  J. J. suggested that I cover his crate after Winston showed a preference to live under the bed.  He told me that dogs go back to animals that live in dens... makes sense.... so by making it darker, Winston might seem more secure inside the crate if it were darker.  And Winston does like to go into the crate... on his own... from time to time, including the day he was on his own in the house for a couple of hours.

Right now I have some jelly rolls and charm packs on top of the crate as I decide which ones will go with which project as well as which project will go to the Outer Banks at the end of September.  Usually, when I have left Winston in his crate since adding the throw for darkness, I would lift up the side so there would be a nice flow of air through the crate while I was gone.  I was in a hurry and forgot to do that.

When I got home, Winston was curled up in his crate, quietly waiting for me to let him out.  It is funny, he does not yet get excited to hear me at the door or even when I open the crate to free him.  It is not until he gets out and is able to stretch that I begin to see his tail start to wag and a slight bounce in his step.  I noted that a couple of the jelly rolls and a charm pack were on the floor.  I figured that he must have tugged on the side or jumped and bumped the top and had one or two fall off the top.  I thought nothing of it.

This is how his crate currently looks with the throw covering top and a couple of sides...

Today I placed Winston in his crate so I could go to Sunday School and Church,  I remembered to lift the side up to get better air flow while I was gone.  This is what I found.  Totally explains why the jelly rolls and charm pack were found on the floor.  Let's just say that this is now completely Winston's throw.  He got his revenge for leaving him alone in his crate....!