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 - 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! :)

FO: Shalom Cardigan

I knitted this cardi as part of a KAL my friend Linda hosted. I have been wanting to knit this pattern for years and I am so glad I did. I might just have to knit it again, I enjoyed it so much!! I am super happy with the way it turned out, and it fits like a glove. Now here's hoping the weather is cooler tomorrow (as the weather-man promised!) so I can wear it :)

I used Elle Earth DK in the colourway Mud Flats held double and used a 5.5mm needle. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Shalom is a free pattern available on Ravelry HERE.




Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope I have inspired you to pick up your knitting needles :)

WIP Wednesday - Shalom Cardigan

Hello. Just a quick post to show you the progress on my Shalom Cardigan. I am so enjoying this pattern and am really happy with the way it is knitting up in this yarn. I am knitting this with a bunch of other ladies who are taking part in a KAL organised by Linda. If you would like to take part check out Linda's post here. This pattern is available for free from Ravelry here. There are 4383 other ladies that have knit this pattern, so you know it's gotta be good!!



Thanks for stopping by today. I will be back later with another post.It's Wednesday, so that means the latest sketch is up at Let's Scrap, so I will have that to share with you as well as my layout :)

Creative Friday @ Natural Suburbia

Yay, yay it's Friday!! So happy it's the end of the week and also that the boys are on holiday, a very short holiday, but better than nothing.

Today I decided to share a little project I am working on. It's something I pick up now and again inbetween other projects. I am crocheting a granny square throw. Knitting will always come first, but I learnt to crochet from my Granny many many years ago!!





I am linking this post to my friend Linda's Creative Friday post. She really has the most wonderful blog called Natural Suburbia that I find so inspiring, go and check it out :)

FO: Minimalist Cardi No. 2!!

So my friend Linda hosts a Creative Friday over at her blog Natural Suburbia. I haven't posted anything about my knitted FO's lately so I thought today would be as good a day as any!!

Please drop by Linda's blog, I find it SO inspiring, and I am sure you will too :)

So today I am posting some pics of my 2nd Minimalist Cardigan. I love this pattern, and it really is so well written....but I don't think I will be knitting a 3rd!! I am not really too fond of how the band rolls, I would much prefer it to lay flat!!




Thanks for dropping by again today, I would love for you to say "Hi" while you are here :)

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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!!