"I've done a little knitting,...no sewing yet...

It's been a few weeks since the last post.  My friend Mandy went to spotlight and told me about there sale of yarns and wool. I bought 2 balls of lily mesh yarn.  Some  lovely green tones. Green is one of my favourite colours...then  purple.  So I made this scarf.....then another ...another...another ....and yet another!!
It is the first time I have tried knitting this type of yarn and is very easy and your work grows really fast which I like alot!

close up

my model...Chippy!

the colours so far.

I also finished my ripple blanket too...I decided not to do an edging....  ..our computer has been down so no blogging and I forget what I have finished ...I should jott it down when I think of it i suppose.
I was talking to my friend Fays daughter and she was telling me about 'scrumbling'...what's that you say...it is a type of free form crochet or knitting where you start off then change to different yarns and add bits on using different stitches and you come out with something really different and a total one off. google it and take a look.

chip loves the blanket

Finally the computer is fixed!

Well it is fixed for how long I don't know.... The mother board was fried apparently.

I haven't really done any sewing except for 'Terry's treasures qal" .  I got carried away with the cutting out and ended up cutting all the strips out....and even joining them all up too.  The reason because I am making some jackets and don't have much spare time.  I had about a week between jobs so made the most of it and sewed all 7 strips up but that is as far as I have got.  Till the next quiet time.....
I haven't taken pics of my strips yet sorry so can't show you yet.

she is a bantam so smaller than a normal size chicken.

the chicks are about 2 1/2 months old here and almost as big as her...so cute!
trying  to keep her babies warm!

I have a few new pics of the chicks I hatched  one real cute one of mother chook trying to keep her babies warm.
Now I've just  have to try and get some things done.

the computer is dead..

Well the computer decided to die  a few weeks ago  so I have been a little quiet.  I haven't really done any sewing  except I started a 'scrappy trip around the world'. I have made about 30 blocks or 40  , now i just have to join them up.  I just haven't had the time as i have been making 'wool coats for a lady so that has taken all my spare time lately but today  I finished them so might get a few days break and can get back to the scrappy trip blocks and get them joined up at least.  No pics yet sorry. And I am going to the qal with terrys treasures blog too.  I have just bought the background fabric so I better get cutting and do the first stage or will get right behind .  I will have pics next time I hope.

My sscs gift.

I nearly forgot to post a pic of what I received in the sscs 2012 swap.  I got this lovely wall hanging from Kris .  I showed my mum and her friends and they all thought it was really lovely and nicely made too.  She also sent me a nice pair of scissors for embroidery and some little squares from 'moda' and a cute frog tape measure, a cross stitchery some floss threads and some yummy lindt chockys...iv'e eaten those just the other day.   Thanks again Kris.

sscs 2012 pressy for my swap partner

I should of done this post by now but just got distracted by things here so here it is .  My swap partner was leanne . She is in Tasmainia so I hope she is ok with all the bush fires that are happening over there at the moment.  I made her a 'half eaten gingerbread man ' for her ornament to hang on the xmas tree.  Then I decided to make a cathedral  windows cushion cover.  I hope she liked it.  I used some 'bliss fabric'  I had.
Here is a pic:

one 'half eaten gingerbread man'..too cute!

the front

the back  with invible zipper

some flowers

unpicked 

Maori potatoes..not very pretty outside but..

a lovely pretty purple flesh inside (sorry pic is dark)

Before Christmas I won an auction here in nz (called trademe).  I bought some hexie flowers  .They are quite old, vintage almost looking.  The colours are rather ugly . They had a yucky pink centre on everyone and some of the surrounds were that pink too. There was 13 of them and after studying them I have decided to pull the outer circle undone and make them into a separate flower.  I think I will put a cream or white or maybe another colour around the flowers because they are 'ugly' how they are and by doing that i should end up with 26 more hexy flowers and should be able to blend them with others...hopefully. They look ok as just a flower without the colour around them. Well that is the plan, but I'm not in any hurry so it will be a slow'work in progress' as I need to find more fabrics that go together.  I have already nearly finished rejoining them into flowers.  I think I will change the centres to something else I need to audition some colours yet ...anything but pink will look better!

In my mum's garden she had grown some of these 'maori potatoes'  they are tasty but look a bit  weird .

My little chicks are growing day by day . I must take some more pics of them. It was so hot here today ,not a cloud in the sky...but now it is quite overcast looking but i don't think it will rain. I'm off to bed now.

"Six more mouths to feed."

"Happy New Year everyone".  I have been away at mum's over the xmas break but came home on saturday. The weather was hot but not so great back at home.  Well before I went away I managed to buy some fertile eggs on  trademe and had them couriered to my mothers as she had a 'clucky' chook and we put the eggs under her to hatch...so that by the time I got there at xmas they should be hatching and then I could take them back home with me.  I forgot the chook was little (a bantum)  she couldn't manage to cover all the eggs so tried 7....she broke one.....so then it was 6....she broke another ...we ended up with 5....only 3 chicks hatched .  What to do with the other 6, well we rang around her friends who keep chooks to find another clucky one and we found one so under the chook the eggs went. well only 2 more hatched but thats ok . I now have 5 cute Aracauna chicks. These chickens lay the pretty lite blue eggs. My last one of these chooks died this year so I wanted to try and get a few more.  I just hope there are more girls than boys....I just have to wait and see.
The 2 last chicks hatched 3 days after the 1st ones and you can see the difference in the wing feathers, if you look closely.

1st one hatched out.

5 cute aracauna chicks.

2 new chicks the 3rd is hiding

I haven"t done any sewing since before xmas which was finishing Chey's Star  quilt which he really loved! I saw a cute quilt on terrys blog which I night try and do slowly. I am going to try and finish some old projects too.

my sscs parcel has arrived!

The mail man delivered my sscs parcel last week, but I havn't  had time to do a post about it.  It is from Kris of tag along teddies.  She has made me a lovely ornament . She is a christmas  angel and is hanging in my sewing room at the moment as i still haven't put up the tree yet!!  Then she can live on the tree ." Thankyou  kris,  she's beautiful."  I haven't  opened  peeped in  the other package  yet, it will be going under the tree. Thanks chookyblue for hosting the swap, you do a fantastic job each year.  It's heaps of fun.!

mail has arrived.

my sscs ornament from Kris

I bought a few kaffe fabrics on trademe (like ebay).  And I found a basket full of patchwork fabrics in the hospice shop today and bought them home with me too! I might go back tommorrow and get some pink as I couldn't make up my mind about it,...if it is still there. I know it is there as I was there when they closed the door at 4pm and opens up at 10am. It is within walking distance for me, only 5 mins up the rd. I found a couple of books too.

some Kaffe fabrics

fabric finds in the hospice shop.

I also found a "U.F.O" forsale too....only $15.00  ....It needs a bit of work....It is 'trip around the world
' pattern i think. Looks like it has been strip pieced but not matched up very well in places and the seam allowances are all over the place(maybe why it doesn't match up so good) and there is a tear in the side and a small stain.  I'm thinking of taking off the end rows and trying to replace the stained bit and add some borders to make it wider....quite a bit to do but i like a challenge .

a u.f.o. 

the rip

stain to fix

I have also nearly finished Chey's star quilt too. I want it done before christmas . I just have to do  some fm stars  on the border. I have finished binding it last night, it took me a couple of nights to do that and now i have a sore finger. Oh and I want to make up a label then I will give it to him.  It's only about 6 months late!! lol!  "Better late than never I say".  I'm sure he will love it. Kids don't look at crooked stitching! lol!

chey's quilt 

binding going on.

a cute bag.

this bag is knitted calico in the blocks

some books 

one very smug "Norbitt" ..what a poser!