sock monkey 001

MY FIRST SOCK MONKEY.

sock monkey 001
Originally uploaded by susanriddell33

my first sock monkey! This is for my nephew for his birthday, i think he will love it! amazing what you can do with a pair of socks! I have put a jingle bell on the end of his tail too.

"WHAT WILL THIS BE?"


what's this going to be?..... well I am going to have a go at making a cute sock monkey. I found it over on http://juliesquiltgallery.blogspot.com/ so go on over if you haven't already. It will be for my nephew, chey. He is having a birthday in a couple of weeks, I'm sure he will love it! She also has a tutorial link to do this.

9 patch

MY STORAGE BOX .

I bought this pretty rose patterned box to store my blocks in , as i make them for the 9 patch quilt along, by crazymomquilts. they fit nice and snug in there. I'll use it for another project when i'm done with this one. I have done another 13 blocks....not sure exactly how many i have done, but think i'm still ahead a bit. These are my latest batch of 13 blocks.

A NEW GUITAR.

well , Twang! twang! twang! he goes!! No hes getting quite good really. improving everyday with practice. here is a pic.

''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!)

nine patch week 4 002

nine patch week 4 002
Originally uploaded by susanriddell33

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!

"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...