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Luna, the sheltie-mix - R.I.P.

5/18/2021

My dog, Luna, a Sheltie-Aussie mix, died in the early morning of May 18, 2021. Luna was 15-16 years old and had been slowing down for several months before. She was still a lovely, sweet doggie.

I miss her already. I got her in July, 2007, from a couple who advertised on Craigslist. I think she was about 2 years then. She was a bouncy, happy dog in those days. She came down with a case of heartworms shortly after she came to live with me, but she recovered and bounced right back. She figured out how to get out of the outdoor pen by jumping on the doghouse and rocking it close enough to the fence so she could jump over it. Cheeky doggie!

She loved her canned food and would bark excitedly while I was dishing it out, like she was saying, "Yippee! Hurry up!"

She barely tolerated the cats and when I first got her, she went into heat and my cat fell in love. He'd roll around trying to get her to pay attention to her. I thought it was hilarious don't think Luna was all that entertained. I enjoyed my nightly walks with her so much! Once another couple was out walking, too, and the woman said, "Oh, look at the little round dog!" Yeah, she was a bit chubby, although a lot of her "roundness" was all that hair.

She was usually friendly with humans...other dogs, not so much. She considered other dogs like wolves attacking her sheep. I've never seen these sheep, but I'm sure she guarded them well. She could be downright vicious towards other dogs if they came into her yard. I watched her take on the neighborhood pit bull who was in our yard harassing my other dog, Leo. The pit bull decided to walk away. And she was not the least intimidated by my sister's Great Dane when we moved up to Kentucky. My brave, little round dog.

I will miss her so much!

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Lapghan with scalloped and spade edgings

5/17/2021

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A friend asked for a pattern for this. I don't have one, I tend to use a combination of patterns/directions on a lot of my crochet items. I used Red Heart worsted weight yarn and a 5.25mm hook (size I). I just made it as wide and as long as I thought it should be for a lapghan - about 26" wide and 35" long before the edgings.

The body of the thing is just half-double crochet, then a half-double crochet edge (in cranberry). The sides use a scalloped edging - as shown here: http://www.hopefulhoney.com/2014/05/how-to-crochet-scalloped-edging.html

Then the ends use the spade design - as shown here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C2DEzAcrsA

I didn't like the way the spades were sort of flopping around, so I modified the spades by connecting them: on the first Chain 2 of each spade, Chain 1 then take the hook out of the chain and insert it into the second chain 2 of the previous spade and pull up a short loop. Chain 1 then proceed with the spade as directed in the video.

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Luna, the sheltie-mix - R.I.P.

Lapghan with scalloped and spade edgings

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