FO - Hitchhiker Shawl

Yay yay it's Friday.....and today I am back with another FO. This time it's the Hitchhiker shawl. For those on Ravelry, HERE is the link. It's a really popular pattern and has been knit 7312 times!!! I have got to say I am in LOOOOVVVVEEEE with this item. It was a fun easy knit, it was just lovely watching the pattern develop in this yummy yarn. After washing and blocking, the shawl has a gorgeous soft feel and lovely drape. 

I used this gorgeous yarn by Nurturing Fibres!!!

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 wonderful weekend xxx

FO Summer Waves Cardi - LOVE it!! :)

Welcome back to my blog this fine Friday. I am so glad it's weekend. Even though I have been down and out with flu all week. It's now moved onto a cough, and my chest feels like it's on fire when I cough. I NEED to get better soon though, I am meeting my Mom and Sis at the Sunday Tribune Garden Show in PMB on Sunday and I really don't want to miss it!!

So, moving onto my cardi. I was inspired by the lovely lady from Tangled Yarns to knit this pattern when I saw hers. She knits like a dream, and I am constantly inspired by her!! The pattern is called Summer Waves Cardi, and it is a free pattern available on Ravelry HERE. It was a well written, easy to follow pattern, which knit up nice and quickly and gives a great end result.

The yarn I used is just LOVELY!!!! It is a locally produced yarn called VINNIS COLOURS Nikkim, and is 100% cotton. This is the first time I used this yarn, and I must say I am super impressed! It is slightly splitty (as cotton yarn is), but besides that, it knits up beautifully, with a lovely variegation, and drape. I will definitely knit with this again!!! I purchased my yarn online from SKAPIE. Do yourself a favour and check it out!! They have a great range of yarn and give excellent service!! :)

(Photos taken by my son Caide)

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

Creative Friday

FO Friday's

And I have also recently discovered this wonderful South African based blog and shop. Please support Mary-Anne and her blog Woolhogs and link up your creations HERE!!! I won the prize for last month's Made It Monthly Challenge, and received my lovely prize yesterday. Anyone in the world is welcome to link-up their creation, so CHECK-IT-OUT!!! :)

If you have any questions about anything in this post, please leave me a comment, and I will do my best to try and help you.

Hope you are all keeping well and happy, it's a long weekend for us here in South Africa, so happy happy me!!!

My 2nd Color Affection!!!

I have another FO to share with you today. It's my second Color Affection which I finished last month, but only got around to taking photos of yesterday afternoon. I knit this one with  Elle Premier Natural Cotton DK, so it is quite a substantial shawl/scarf. This really is a lovely pattern to knit, it is fascinating to watch the shawl take shape.

I am linking up to the following LOVELY blogs:

Creative Friday

FO Friday's

And I have also recently discovered this wonderful South African based blog and shop. Please support Mary-Anne and her blog Woolhogs and link up your creations HERE!!! I won the prize for last month's Made It Monthly Challenge, and received my lovely prize yesterday. Anyone in the world is welcome to link-up their creation, so CHECK-IT-OUT!!! :)

If you have any questions about anything in this post, please leave me a comment, and I will do my best to try and help you.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, hopefully we will get some more rain here!! :) 

My Color Affection

I have another FO to share with you today, I am over the moon with this one. I am one of thousands of people who have knit this pattern, it is extremely popular over at Ravelry!! The link to the actual pattern can be found HERE, as I type this 3494 people have linked their Color Affections on Ravelry!

I used one 100g ball of each color to knit this pattern. I just made it with the main color blue, but still had a bit left over of the brown and lilac colors.

So, here it is. Once again photographed by my son Bryce :)

I have worn this loads since finishing it, and will be knitting another one soon, it is such a wearable item. This week I wore it as a scarf and it looked lovely!!

Once again I will be linking up with Linda's Creative Friday as well as FO Fridays.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! :) I see some rugby watching and knitting on the cards for me!

FO - Shift of Focus

Happy Friday everyone!! :)

It's an even better Friday for me, cause my sweet husband came up to me this morning and said it was a bit quiet at work, so I need not come in. I really do have the best husband in the world!! :)

So I will be enjoying a long weekend at home!!

Today I am sharing my latest finished knit with you. The pattern is called Shift of Focus, and is a new pattern by Veera. When I saw this over at Ravelry, I knew I HAD to knit it!

(Photos taken by my 10 year old son Bryce!)

Now that my Shift is finished I am concentrating on my Color Affection. I also bought some yarn, and the pattern for another Veera pattern, Gathering Stripes, I am knitting it in a grey with red stripes!

It's Friday, so that means I am linking up to my Linda's Creative Friday again. Also linking up to Tami's FO Friday!

Have an absolutely wonderful weekend everyone!!

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 :)

FO - Vitamin D Cardigan

I am back with another knitted project to share with you today!!

This one is called Vitamin D, and it was a great knit!! I did battle a bit at times, unfortunately I have a bit of a mental block when it comes to reading patterns, but with a bit of help from my sister was able to work through it!

I LOVE how this item turned out, unfortunately it is a little tight, I might have to try and stretch it a bit more, if that doesn't work out I may give it to my Mom and knit myself another one!

So, here it is:

This pattern is available to purchase on Ravelry!! I really am loving my knitting at the moment, it relaxes me like nothing else!! I am busy with a new project at the moment, its called Shift of Focus, it involves lots of garter stitch and short rows. I have also decided what's next after that, I am a bit addicted I suppose!!

I am linking up with my friend Linda's Creative Friday again, how are you Linda?? :)

Have an awesome weekend!!! 

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! :)

Happy New Year, and a few changes around here!

Hi all. I haven't been around here for a while, I have actually really enjoyed the break!! A belated "Happy New Year" to you, I hope the year holds lots of love and happiness for each and every one of you.

While I have been on holiday I have been thinking a lot about my blog, and where I might be going with it. I admit, I have been feeling a bit jaded about the whole thing, and have been considering shutting it down. Upon more reflection, I have decided not to shut it down, but just change my perspective and focus of my blog, these are the changes I have made, and would like to make:

1. First of all I resigned my DT post over at Crafting for All Seasons. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and made lots of new friends, but my heart is just not in cards anymore!! Thanks for giving me the opportunity to be on your team Dawn! I have tried (without success) to find somewhere to sell my cards, and have been rather deflated by the reactions received by recipients of my cards. My time is precious to me, and unfortunately I feel this hobby (at this stage of my life), is a bit of a waste of time. So.... I am afraid you will probably not be seeing too many cards here on my blog!

2. I am going to continue with my DT position over at Sketches in Thyme. Scrapbooking has always been my first love, and I feel it's VERY important to capture my families memories. So I will be posting scrapbook layouts here!!

3. I am doing Project Life again this year, so I may post family photos here from time to time (maybe my Mom will even start supporting my blog this year!)

4. I am going to focus more on family, exercise, my veggie patch, friends, knitting, baking, and generally just trying to live a better life for myself, my kids and of course my husband. I don't want my blog to be a pressure point anymore, and will post when I feel like it, and about a range of different aspects of my life. Hopefully most of you will still stick around and support me (I hope you will)!

I finished my December Daily album a few days ago, here are just a few of my favourite pages:





Isn't our December so different from that of those living in the Northern Hemisphere?!?!

So.... I hope to see you around soon. I am still blog hopping like a crazy woman, and gaining inspiration from the many talented ladies out there. This is a wonderful community to be a part of!! :)

I knit a hat for me!!!

Hello. I am writing this from a wet and cold Dundee. It's a pleasant change from the 35 Degrees Celcius weather we had on Wednesday. The boys broke up for their December holiday yesterday, and I am so happy about it. A month of chillaxing!!

So anyway, I wanted to share with you a knitted item that I finished about half an hour ago. I got my son Caide to take some photos for me!




The pattern is called Nantes Hat and is from the latest copy of Interweave Knits. I have been wanting to knit myself a hat for the longest time, and when I saw this in the mag I knew I wanted to knit it. It's full of lovely cables (which I love to knit!). I knit it with Sublime Cashmere Merino and used one and a half 50g balls.

I am linking this post to my friend Linda's Creative Friday which she hosts every Friday. I hope you all have a lovely weekend. My sister Lauren is coming to visit. I hope to do lots of knitting and chatting with her, she is the only other member of my family that knits!!

A textured Shawl for Creative Friday

Hi All.

It's been AGES since I shared a FO with you here on my blog. So today I would like to show you the Textured Shawl I completed recently. I am going to link this post up to my friend Linda's Creative Friday.

This shawl pattern is available for free on Ravelry HERE.



I am so happy with the way this one turned out!! I have been loving having something warm to wrap around my neck this winter!!

The yarn was the gorgeous yarn from the last Nuturing Fibres Club and is called Autumn Mosaic, isn't it stunning!?! Carle really does produce the most stunning yarn. I am a huge fan!!!

And just another quick share, this is the project I am currently working on. I am supposed to be knitting it with my sister, but she is streaks ahead!!


Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you have a lovely weekend, whatever you are doing!! :)