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Felix the Fox Knitting Pattern

By Linda on February 26, 2019 in Uncategorized

Hi everyone!

I hope you’re all having a wonderful year so far! Can you believe it’s almost the end of February??

Thanks to everyone who joined in with the Christmas swap, I know there were a few people who were running late with their parcels, I hope you all managed to post them off to your partners eventually 🙂

Over the last few months I had a test knit and released a pattern for Felix the Fox 🙂

He’s knitted in the round with the Magic Loop technique

There’s hardly any sewing up at all and he’s lovely, large and cuddly.

He can be knitted aran or worsted yarn and if you’d like to see some of the projects that have already been knitted, visit his Ravelry page for more details. You of can also purchase the pattern there or from my Mamma4earth Etsy shop.

If you do knit him up please share your projects on Ravelry or tag me on Instagram.

Have a wonderful week further 🙂

Christmas Ornament Swap 2018

By Linda on November 14, 2018 in Uncategorized

I love Christmas, it’s such a festive time of year. A time for creating lovely gifts, decorations, spending time with family and preparing for Christmas day. Can you believe December is around the corner, just a few weeks to go!

The theme for this swap is Christmas ornaments, it can be an ornament for a tree or anything with a Christmas theme. You can send off one item or a few and please do contact your swap partner and get to know them. If you’d like to include a few extra items, feel free to do so 🙂

If you would like to take part in this swap, this is what you need to do, leave a comment in this post and please email your:

Name
Address
Email address
Blog link if you have one

to my email address, lindadawkins@mweb.co.za and I will pair you with a swap partner.

This is an international swap so wherever you are, you can join:) Please feel free to add this photo above to your sidebar of your blog with this page link.

Please, if you decide that you no longer want to take part, just send me an email so that I can pair your partner with someone else. If you would like to offer to be a swap angel (someone who will send out one extra swap item to anyone who has not received their swap for whatever reason) just add that to your email you send to me.

The swap items need to be sent out by the end of November.

Deadline for signing up, 22nd of November.

I am so looking forward to this swap:)

Warmly
Linda

Saturday 24/02

By Linda on February 24, 2018 in Crafts, Family, Gardening, Mamma4earth, Shop, Uncategorized, Waldorf

Hello!! How can it be February already?? Life has become extremely busy, both of our girls are studying at Chiropractic at university and the boys are getting older too! Caid is in his second last year of high school and Kye will be starting high school in a couple of years.

Here’s some news from our side of the world 🙂

Delilah drinking water just outside the front door, this is one of her favourite spots to quench her thirst.

Hard to believe this boy is now 12 years old! He’s enjoying learning about animation on Blender and has even started his own YouTube channel!

This is the cake he wanted, Overwatch, it’s a computer game that he enjoys playing. An amazing confectionary chef called Tiffany made it for us, she is SO talented!!

Erin made a wonderful discovery in our Bamboo bush yesterday, a Rainspider nest! The Rainspider mom is sitting on top of the nest in the photo, she is huge! The nest is literally the same size as it is in the photo. SO exciting!

This is the little zebra I made for someone over in Australia 🙂 He’s on his way there now. I really enjoyed knitting this sweet softie and will have to design a pattern soon. I used pure wool from Nurturing Fibres, a stunning South African yarn dyer and he has been stuffed with Merino fleece, so 100% natural!

Our days are becoming cooler now that we are heading into Autumn here in South Africa, I’m looking forward to the colder months 🙂 What have you been up to lately?

Have a lovely Saturday!

A Trip

By Linda on December 4, 2016 in Family, Knitting, Uncategorized

Hello,

I really appreciate all of your comments and for your visits to this space. Life is incredibly busy now and the days are flying by. I cannot believe it’s almost Christmas, it seems that I have just packed up all the decorations and now it’s time to take them all down from the cupboards again! I was grateful to hear from a few readers who were missing my posts. I will be posting more often and really enjoy sharing here and of course love hearing from you. I am also posting frequently on Instagram as Mamma4earth

We’ve just returned from a lovely holiday at the beach. We haven’t been for a while, it’s an eight-hour drive in the car but was worth the trip.

I spotted a bluebottle on the beach, they are beautiful.

Kye and I found some scoured out rock pools that had tiny ecosystems living in them.

Everyone enjoyed the beach, I really wish we lived closer.

I’ve been enjoying knitting on the Blue Light Hat. It was originally designed by Kerstin Olsson in 1959 and was updated by Solveig Gustafsson in 2008. The shades of yarn are breathtaking when combined in their respective rounds. ?✨ Kye has seen it and has already claimed ownership.?