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By Linda on September 8, 2012 in Birthdays, Caiden, Family

Photos taken with Instagram eeeearly this morn…

Happy Birthday to our sweet boy, Caiden!

There was so much excitement here this morning, as you can imagine, he has been counting down the days for months! I think we all got up at 6:45 am and made our way to the birthday table prepared in the front lounge. I love preparing the birthday table, it has been a family tradition for quite a few years now. I got the idea from this lovely book called The Birthday Book, a Waldorf inspired book, full of birthday goodness. I also made felt crowns for our children a few years ago and these little traditions have such great meaning to all of us. The night before each birthday I read a sweet poem from that lovely book and even though they are all getting older, they still love to have their poem read to them by myself and have that special table waiting for them each birthday morning…

The birthday cake has been baked and is cooling in the kitchen…

We wish you all the love and happiness in the world dear Cady,

Love from all of us.

Knitting…

By Linda on September 3, 2012 in Knitting

It’s been a weekend of knitting blanket pieces and I have added a new design, a little flat heart with holes all around the edges, I prefer this one… The Recovery Blanket we are making takes about 121 rectangular pieces, we have knitted about 60 pieces so far. There are so many people contributing from all over the world, I am so grateful to all of you for making this special project for my mom possible:) Thank you!!

A new Heart Pattern for the blanket:

Materials:

4mm needles

Aran weight wool in any colour of the rainbow:)

Love

Pattern:

Cast on 25 stitches

Rows 1-6: Knit in garter stitch

Row 7: Knit 11, knit 2 together, yarn over, knit 12

Row 8: Knit 12, purl 1, knit 12

Row 9: Knit 10, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 1, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 10.

Row 10: Knit 11, purl 3, knit 11

Row 11: Knit 9, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 3, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 9.

Row 12: Knit 10, purl 5, knit 10

Row 13: Knit 8, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 5, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 8.

Row 14: Knit 9, purl 7, knit 9

Row 15: Knit 7, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 7, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 7.

Row 16: Knit 8, purl 9, knit 8

Row 17: Knit 6, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 9, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 6.

Row 18: Knit 7, purl 11, knit 7

Row 19: Knit 5, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 11, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 5.

Row 20: Knit 6, purl 13, knit 6

Row 21: Knit 4, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 13, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 4.

Row 22: Knit 5, purl 15, knit 5

Row 23: Knit 4, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 13, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 4.

Row 24: Knit 5, purl 15, knit 5

Row 25: Knit 4, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 13, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 4.

Row 26: Knit 5, purl 15, knit 5

Row 27: Knit 5, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 5, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 4, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 5.

Row 28: Knit 6, purl 6, knit 1, purl 6, knit 6

Row 29: Knit 7, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 1, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 1, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 1, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 7.

Rows 30-35: Knit

Cast off

(If you find any errors, please do let me know and I will change them accordingly)

PS I have had a few questions about the yarn over in the pattern, it just means take the wool around the needle and then continue knitting, it will make a hole.

My mom bought this shawl in the late 1940s and gave it to me a few years ago, I really love the pattern and would like to make a few for myself in different colours. It’s a crochet pattern (I am not too good at crochet) but I’m going to go and search for it on Ravelry anyway. Anyone seen anything similar before?

Happy Monday!

Creative Friday and a Rectangle Heart Pattern

By Linda on August 31, 2012 in Creative Friday, Knitting, Pattern

Dear friends,

Thank you all so much for your very kind thoughts and prayers over the last few days. You have given our family such wonderful support and love, you have carried me through such tremendous sadness over the passing of my beloved dad. Our family has come together and it has been so lovely to share this time with them… I am so very blessed to know all of you, I can’t say thank you enough…

I have been knitting and knitting and we are still going forward with our recovery blanket, we are knitting it in honour of my dad and will be giving the blanket to my dear mom so that she can wrap herself in it and remember their love…

As I can’t share the vintage pattern that we have been knitting from a magazine, I have designed a piece that is exactly the same size and will share the pattern below and will fit beautifully with the other pieces.

Thank you so much to everyone who wrote to me by email and on Facebook requesting the pattern to contribute to this special project. I am adding my postal address below, so if you feel you would like to add a piece, we would be very honored to include it.

Postal Address:

Linda Dawkins

PO Box 15671

Farrarmere

1518

South Africa

PS I have added a new Heart pattern here.

Heart Blanket Square:

Materials:

4mm needles

Aran weight wool in any colour of the rainbow:)

Love

Pattern:

Cast on 25 stitches

Rows 1-6: Knit in garter stitch

Row 7: Knit 11, knit 2 together, yarn over, knit 12

Row 8: Knit

Row 9: Knit 10, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 1, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 10.

Row 10: Knit

Row 11: Knit 9, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 3, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 9.

Row 12: Knit

Row 13: Knit 8, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 5, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 8.

Row 14: Knit

Row 15: Knit 7, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 7, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 7.

Row 16: Knit

Row 17: Knit 6, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 9, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 6.

Row 18: Knit

Row 19: Knit 5, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 11, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 5.

Row 20: Knit

Row 21: Knit 4, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 13, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 4.

Row 22: Knit

Row 23: Knit 4, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 13, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 4.

Row 24: Knit

Row 25: Knit 4, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 13, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit 4.

Row 26: Knit

Row 27: Knit 5, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 5, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 4, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 5.

Row 28: Knit

Row 29: Knit 7, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 1, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 1, knit 2 tog, yarn over, knit 1, yarn over, knit 2 tog, knit 7.

Rows 30-35: Knit

Cast off

(If you find any errors, please do let me know and I will change them accordingly)

Welcome to Creative Friday!

Thank you so much to everyone who shares the love and their beautiful links:) Please feel free to post your links to anything you have created and would like to share, it can be a recipe, sewing tutorial, knitting tutorial, felting, crochet, crafts, art, spinning, weaving, working with fibre, photography, poetry…etc…

I also love to hear from you, so if you have a moment, please leave a comment:) Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talent with us! Just add the name of your blog to the widget and then add your blog link with the http:// at the beginning of your link address:) I have added a Creative Friday button on the sidebar of my blog, please feel free to add it to your blog for Creative Friday and link it to http://www.naturalsuburbia.com/ so others can find this space and share their creativity too:)

1. I have started a Creative Friday Flickr Group where you can post your beautiful photos that you link to each Creative Friday. To join the group, please go here.

2. If you would be so kind as to link back to Natural Suburbia in your blog post that would be lovely:)

Have a wonderful day,
xo
Linda