FO - Handspun Mitts!!

Hiya!!Another Friday is upon us!! The week has flown by, the boys now only have one more week of school left before they go on holiday for 6 weeks. Yay!!

So today I am sharing with you my recently finished handspun mitts. I am so happy with the way these turned out, and I know they are going to keep my hands and wrists nice and warm in Winter!!

The pattern is a free one on Ravelry, it is called "Easy Handspun Mitts", and for those on Rav, it can be found HERE.

(Photos taken by my son Bryce!!)

Once again I am linking up to the following LOVELY blogs:

Creative Friday

FO Friday's

Fiber Arts Friday

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. We are off to Vryheid for the morning tomorrow. Caide is going to try his first 40km mountain bike race (he is only 13), and Bryce and I are going to do the 10km trail run. Wish us luck!!! :)

Another FO - This is one I am REALLY proud of!!!

Wow, Friday really does roll around so quickly, today has snuck up on me somewhat!!! We are leaving early this morning to go down to Treverton to get Caide's uniform for next year, I can't believe my son is going to High School in a matter of months!!!!!

So this must be a quick post!!

Today I am going to share a recently completed handspun shawl. I absolutely LOVE how this item turned out. My handspun yarn is thick and snuggly, and the colours are unlike any I have knit with before. Needless to say I am a little in love with this one, check it out!!!!

I can't wait to wear this!!!! The pattern is called Pogona and is available for purchase on Ravelry HERE. The construction of this shawl is just so clever, and it was a joy to knit!!

Once again I am linking up to the following LOVELY blogs:

Creative Friday

FO Friday's

Woolhogs 

Fiber Arts Friday

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog again today. For those that take the time to leave a comment, a huge "THANK-YOU", I really do appreciate it!!!! Have a great weekend :)

Showing you an older FO

As you may gather, I have been making a concerted effort to photograph the many knitted items that I have knit in the last few months and years. I haven't been very good with that, only with the items like socks and shawls that don't have to be modeled and I can take the photos myself!!

So today I am showing you an item I finished in 2010!! :)

This is one of the first items I knit with my own handspun yarn. I LOVE LOVE this capelet so much. The yarn I spun is so so soft, and it is so cozy to wear. I love it when the weather starts getting cooler so I can start wearing my knitted items!!

So, here it is:

I am TOTALLY loving my knitting at the moment, can you tell??? LOL :)

This pattern is called Lace Capelet and it is free over at Ravelry. It is a fun quick knit with a great end result!!

I cast on for Color Affection on Tuesday and am loving this pattern, it is hugely popular at the moment and has had 2570 people knit it and post pictures on Ravelry!

I am linking this post to Linda's Creative Friday again :)

My Current W.I.P.

It was a short work week for us here in South Africa, so Friday rolled around quite quickly for us!!

So today I am going to share my current Work In Progress with you. I am knitting a cowl called the Honey Cowl, it's a free pattern available over at Ravelry (the best knitting, spinning, crocheting site ever!!!) , and I am using my own handspun yarn. I am LOVING (x 1000000000000), how rich the colours are knitting up. In the past I have lost a lot of colour in my yarns when washing them, but thanks to my friend Carle, I now know what I need to do in order to set the colour in my yarn.

The roving that I used for this yarn was purchased from Carle, you can find some of her lovely products in her Etsy shop HERE.

I am linking up to my other knitty friend, Linda's Creative Friday. 

Anyway, that's all for me today, I am off to sit down with my knitting and a cup of tea! :)

My handspun Toasts

Hi there. Just a quick post to share with you my Toasts that I finished knitting over the weekend.

They are a quick and easy knit and the pattern is available over at Ravelry (such an awesome site, I tell you!!). I knit Jamie a beanie with this same yarn, and this is some of what was left over of the yarn. It has been my favourite handspun yarn so far, and it knits up super soft and cozy. Can't wait for cooler weather, when I can wear them :)


(THAT'S ME HOLDING OUR OWN EGGS, AREN'T THEY GORGEOUS!)



(CLICK ON EACH PHOTO FOR A LARGER VIEW)

Hope you have had a lovely weekend. We had a lovely day today, we all swam the Chelmsford Challenge, and everyone did so well. We are all feeling slightly pooped this afternoon :)I will post a pic or two next week!!

Dean Street Hat out of my own Homespun

Hi all. My friend Linda hosts Creative Friday over at her blog Natural Suburbia. I always seem to post my item a day late, but better late than never.

Today I am going to share the cutest hat that I knit with my own homespun. I am SO happy with the way this hat turned out. It is a lovely pattern, you can find it on Ravelry HERE, and my handspun wool has knit up to such a soft texture. I actually knit this for myself, but realised I look like a total dork in hats!! Luckily it fits Jamie!! Want to have a look? I am going to share all of the stages of this project!






So what do you think??

In other news, it is World Card Making Day today!! I am hosting a lovely card making challenge over at Scrapbook Challenges today, you can find it HERE. I would love for you to play along. If you do, you stand the chance of winning a $20 gift voucher from Annabelle Stamps!!

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. It is hot as heck here today, we all feel like we are melting, and are praying for some much needed rain!!