Saturday, May 30, 2009





''QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY WEEKEND''.

This weekend is a long weekend. Queens birthday . I've been trying to learn how to do hand quilting. I found a book in the local library with some very good pictures . It is a bit tricky learning how to do it but i think im getting there very s l o w l y. . . . I will persevere. I am waiting to hear from the quilt shop when a class is going to be running. so that should help alot. I think it is so much easier to see someone doing it. So this weekend my son conor has two mates staying over, they have been playing his electric guitar and driving me mad !! It is raining outside and they are in the house, being silly as 'tweenys 'are .( 12-13 yr olds) all they seem to do is eat.. eat.. and eat again!! This was taken awile ago as he now has "mullet" growing halfway down his back! He has bad hair days! (ha! ha!)

Saturday, May 23, 2009

nine patch week 4 002

Here is another weeks worth of 9 patch blocks. still a little a head i think.



IT'S "BRASS MONKEY " WEATHER HERE!



well it was quite cold here last night! not sure how cold, but icy cold as there is lots of snow down further in the country.{n.z.} But when i got up this morning the sun was out! so i took a pic of the blue sky as i haven't really seen it properly for a few days. Blackie , my manx cat thought it looked pretty good too!


Friday, May 15, 2009




"LOOK WHAT IS FLOWERING IN MY GARDEN". from this ......







This is my lovely tree dahlia. It is very fragile looking, usually it gets bashed to bits by the winds. It has just come into flowering this week, It is a lovely lialic colour. The flowers don't last long unfortunatly. They grow quite tall quite quickly from about october to may, that is when they flower. We don't get frosts where we live here in the bush otherwise 'Jack frost ' would get them. Even 'mr bumblebee' flew into the picture right on cue! to this...


Originally uploaded by susanriddell33

9 PATCH QUILT-A-LONG.

I've joined "crazy moms quilt-a-long. one block aday. I am trying to use only scraps. so far, so good. I cut about aweeks worth, then stitch them up so i am organized so far!




Friday, May 08, 2009



THEY JUST SEEM TO MULTIPLY!!


These wee bags just seem to multiply! One is for my mother-inlaw for mothers day. I will put something in it, maybe a voucher so she can buy whatever she likes. hope she likes it. I might have one too.





Tuesday, May 05, 2009


A GIVE AWAY!


There is a giveaway at Daisy Quilts, just click on her button at the top of my sidebar to check it out.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

"ANOTHER FREE STITCHERY."




check out the new free stitchery of "shabby roses", It is really pretty! just click on the pic on my side bar.



"SOME MORE OF THE LITTLE BAGS"


Here is a couple more pics of the other little bags I made. One has an invisible zip, the other is normal.

Friday, May 01, 2009






"I'VE BEEN LEARNING TO MAKE A BAG".

I have been making this cute ,very handy little bag. My sister pam showed me how to do one. I could fnd heaps of uses for these. They kept her busy while she was visiting our mum during the school holidays. here is a pic of one i made from the scraps, nothing was wasted.