Thanks so much to everyone who left such lovely comments regarding the owl pattern in the previous post:) Today I have been taking photos of some of the birdlife in our garden and I am also having a small giveaway at the end of this post.
Just look at these girls digging out our barrels… they are so special:)
Our resident Masked Weaver building a new nest.
Black Collared Barbet feeding on the bird feeder…
My new handspun, it is a Superwash Merino Yarn, I bought the roving from Nurturing Fibres on Etsy and I really enjoyed spinning it up.
GIVEAWAY:
I am offering this lovely rainbow superwash Merino handspun yarn as a giveaway:) To enter just leave a comment. The giveaway winner will be announced on Wednesday in this blog post. You may enter once each day for the giveaway until Wednesady if you wish:)
Wishing everyone a wonderful week xo Linda
Winner:
dayswithdaniel said…
I love it! Just gorgeous. Wish I could spin. x
Congratulations! Please would you email me your postal details:)
Warmly
Linda
absolutely beautiful. I love the colors!
You have such colorful birds where you live, they are beautiful! And that yarn is beautiful! Everyone always seem to be using Merino yarn on blogs I read, but I’ve never seen any. I bet it would be great to knit with! Thanks for the chance 🙂
Wow! what lovely colours, just reminds me of all this birds in your garden.
Fingers crossed it comes my way.
Happy Week
Aah!
I literally gasped when I saw the beautifully coloured merino yarn. I scrolled down thinking “please let this be the giveaway!!”
Those chooks in the first shot had me smiling, too. They look very happy there.
What beautiful yarn, the colors are wonderful!
I love the chickens making a mess in the flowerpot 🙂
Your handspun looks delicious and I’d love to win! Thanks for posting the giveaway.
I’m loving your blog right now, as I sit under many inches of snow and am expecting more tomorrow! Brrrr! I would love to win a bit of that wooly sunshine!
Blessings,
Maria
My fingers are crossed. I love your yarn.
o,what a lovely colours!!
i love ypur giveaway :))
Your photos are stunning, thank you for sharing!
And that yarn looks beautiful!
-Ally B
I put birdseed out earlier this week and my goodness! We have a whole flock of chipping sparrows that decend on our yard every day. Peppered throughout are some chickadees, a titmouse or two, and some lovely cardinals. It’s such a joy to see them fluttering about.
Another gorgeous post my friend. Your chicks are gorgeous, mine are still so young when I look at yours!! Can’t believe that you are giving away this gorgeous yarn, spinning is such a time consuming thing to do!! Enjoy the week ahead. We have just gotten back from a lovely weekend of camping at Drakensville in the Berg 🙂
Gorgeous! What a lovely color of yarn! We’ve been having so much fun watching our chickens in our yard this winter as well. 🙂
What beautiful yarn!
Oh. Oh. The weaver. The color of her. And the ball, her nest. I’ve never really seen anything like her before. You’d be so disappointed in the birds we have – mostly brown. Like horses. But I love them. I guess, when the coloration is more – subtle – you learn to glory in the little bit there is, because our Tangers and warblers have always been lovely to me. But this weaver and the Barbet – they break on my January eyes like fireworks. My very favorite is the woven ball, though. I am fascinated.
Every time you put up pictures of the chickens, I am cheered. Our puppies also dig up the barrels, but they have no hope of being considered special afterwards, even with an emoticon.
The yarn – luscious. You just do these things that seem so magical to me. Especially today. A little pressure in the head; no energy. I look at your page here, and I just sit on the floor like a lump, considering my useless and limp life. (But at the core of me, I am actually refreshed by your imagination, color and kind energy – if you understand what I mean).
Thank you for sharing these beautiful birds with us! Wow! and the fun suspense of the giveaways! cool!
thanks for sharing the great pics of birds in your place… we have 1 foot of snow, and this is a glimmer of spring… Wool would be nice too!
Loving that rainbow yarn. cheers Marie
gorgeous yarn! I’d love to knit something for my son with it . . . nancywalters44@hotmail.com
Beautiful birds makes me long for spring!
I love your yarn. The colorway is beautiful.
And am loving your birds. I’ve never seen a Masked Weaver. Must not reside in/near Ohio, because I’ve been an avid birder for decades!
Thanks for the chance. Happy New Year and God bless.
Lovely colorful yarn… delicious 😉
Sheetal
sheetalwalke@gmail.com
Your photos are just lovely! Thank you for the giveaway! maria weinert
What beautiful yarn! Keeping my fingers crossed!
Hello Linda. I found and signed up to your blog (my first!) yesterday. I think it will be an inspiration as I become more aware of the rhythms I want to live by with my 18 month old Finn. I love your masked weaver bird – how wonderful to have him there making a perfect Waldorf home from the bounty of your garden! I am new to knitting and would love to start a knitted tea set for my boy with the stunning yarn you have spun. Thank you. Rosie x
That yarn is such pretty colors. I’ve been trying to add more of a rainbow to our life.
Linda,
Your handspun reminds me of sunset on the ocean. How beautiful. I have been knitting with Misti Alpaca Handpainted this last week and love the colors and feel.
Blessings,
Tracy
Hello Linda! I love your girls and would like to have few sweeties, but I think ‘Nero’ would be running too much after them.
This yarn is so so beautiful – I dream I’ll win and may knit something beautiful with it!
Thank you for sharing! Teje
I love this yarn! In the dark days of winter in Europe, it’s a reminder that it’s summer somewhere!
Absolutely beautiful! I would love to win that yarn! :]
My chickens are scratching through snow today.
That rainbow is SUPER. I can almost feel it.
Lovely!
Once again…beautiful colors!!!
Dear Linda, I work in a small Waldorf kindergarten in Rijeka, Croatia and such wool simply does not exist in our country so we would cheered if we got it
Your bird photos are FABULOUS! I find myself wanting to know what camera (and lens) you use! Beautiful. Ohhh how I long for birds returning, nest building, warm weather!
Dear Linda, I work in a small Waldorf kindergarten in Rijeka, Croatia and such wool simply does not exist in our country so my children and I would be delighted if we could receive it!
the colors of those birds and that yarn are all gorgeous! very kind of you to offer your yarn for giveaway! hope you are enjoying summer. xoxo rae
I can’t imagine living in a place where you’re surrounded by such colorful birds, almost as colorful as your handspun. Simply beautiful!
I love the yarn< you do such a great job. I am also loving the pics of wildlife. Always relaxing to see photos of nature.
Those birds are amazing and oh so colorful! And that yarn? .sigh…. just amazing… oh the things I could make with that! 🙂
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What beautiful yarn! I really would like to learn how to spin! One day…
Absolutely beautiful yarn! Would love to knit something wonderful with it 😉
happy new year lovely, gorgeous photos, love the chicken one.
always so generous in offering your wonderful yarn
xx
The birds are stunning. I wonder if my luck will continue. I want to win that gorgeous yarn!
Beautiful colours, both in the amazing birds you have photographed and in the yarn you have made. The asked weaver’s nest is just amazing!
Not sure what to do now.
You must know by now how much I love your posts, just by my sporadic barmy comments.
I have just finished a little doll (well I still have to do a head and hands – but I’m waiting for summer to end so I can pilfer a T-shirt from the girls for the cotton) from local cape hand-spun wool and would love to create something beautiful with your wool. Or I might just look at it for a while – it is so beautiful.
But after reading Suzana’s comment I would probably have to knit at least a couple of rainbow balls for Zenzeleni Waldorf School in Khayalitcha – they don’t have much real wool out that way either…
Wow, I love it. I’m definitely in
this yarn is beautiful!!!
Wow Linda?!!!
The colors are beautiful!
And the birds too 🙂
Hi Linda,
We are thinking a lot these days about how we want to organise the party for our second seven-year-old son this spring. Seven is very much linked to ‘rainbow’ in my thoughts and right now I come across your gorgeous rainbow-yard… a coincidence ?
I am giving it a try and hope to be able one day to spin my own. Your posts are very inspiring to our family, thanks for that,
Treuzel.
Wow Linda?!!!
The colors are beautiful!
And the birds too 🙂
You are going to have many entries to pick from, because this yarn is stunning! Count me in!
Oh, your photos. Your yarn. Your yarn! LOVE how the colours of the yarn correlate with the photo preceding it. Nice artistic touch (intended or not), that.
So pretty! My daughter would love anything made from it 🙂
Gorgeous colors!!! And I love superwash merino! 🙂
I love your bird photos…we have a blackbird that comes 3 times a day to collect cat biscuits from our porch to feed it’s babies. Sometimes the bowl will be empty and it squawks for me to put some out LOL!
I love the rainbow wool. Your are so clever and creative!
This first picture really speaks to me. So lovely & so peaceful 🙂
Beautiful colorway!! Lovely pics too. Thanks for the giveaway!
love that colorful yarn – thanks for the giveaway!
The yarn is absolutely beautiful, and I would LOVE to have it, but I also want to compliment you on your photos! They are so vibrant, so detailed, so eye-catching! I also have photographed birds in the trees outside my window, but I never get tired of seeing them! Great work 🙂
This is sooooo lovely!
sophia.komninou at gmail.com
Thanks so much for offering this giveaway. I’ve been on a superwash kick lately – would love to win your yarn. Ans the owl is adorable!!! Can’t wait to make him. Thanks for sharing!
Susan
such lovely photos of the birds and your chooks, cheeky things! The wool is so beautiful, so many things come to mind, but you cant beat a lovely jumper with that colour!
Hello Dearest Linda and happy New Year to you,
Thank you for your generosity and love as usual would love some of your gorgeous yarn, you are such an inspiration. May all your dreams evolve this year. Much love
Wendy
I think I am in love with your masked weaver bird, so beautiful!
Your hand spun wool looks beautiful too, And to think it was made lovingly by someones hand.Amazing.
Oh my goodness, I don’t know if I’ve ever wanted to win anything so badly…well maybe the lottery, but then I could buy ALL of you wonderful yarn and critters…LOL! Anyhow, the yarn is beautiful, I can just imagine the most amazing hat I could knit with it, seeings how at the moment hats are the only thing I’ve learned to knit. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway, so hope I’m the lucky winner.
Tabatha D
Oh my goodness, I don’t know if I’ve ever wanted to win anything so badly…well maybe the lottery, but then I could buy ALL of you wonderful yarn and critters…LOL! Anyhow, the yarn is beautiful, I can just imagine the most amazing hat I could knit with it, seeings how at the moment hats are the only thing I’ve learned to knit. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway, so hope I’m the lucky winner.
Tabatha D
Beautiful! Thanks for the opportunity!
Oh my, what delicious creations could be made with this. Thanks for the chance!
thepricklypinecone(at)gmail.com
Linda I love seeing pictures of the birdlife in your garden. We were in Australia over Christmas and so enjoyed hearing Kookaburras calling, magpies warbling and even the really rowdy crows and cockatoos. Here on Guam my kids get excited about sparrows and the odd pidgeon. But if anyone is interested google ‘KoKo for Cocos’ and you can learn about a recovery and release program for Guam native birds.
Cheers
Oh and I would LOVE some more of your yarn 😉
Your bird photos are so good – I especially like the one of the yellow bird.
The yarn is lovely too!
i love the photo of the masked weaver – a friend from SA introduced me to the nature of this lovely bird!!!!
mabbettlorraine at yahoo dot com
I love your photos of summer 🙂
And your new handspun wool is fabulous – would make such beautiful mermaid doll hair, it does remind me of where the sky and the sea meet 🙂
Thanks for this chance!
so beautiful.
you do wonderful work.
What lovely birds and beautiful yarn!
The nest photo is lovely. It looks like a little green ball of yarn and I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that the yarn is lovely.
Beautiful! The colors made me think of a box crayons for grown ups!
It is now Monday where I live, so I’ve come back to tell you how incredibly enthusiastic I am!
I have been thinking about what to knit with the beautiful merino yarn, should I be the happy recipient.
oh! i am geeking out over this yarn!! so beautiful! I enjoy your blog immensely by the way! thank you for posting ^_^
I can’t decide which is more beautiful…the birds or the yarn! Thank you for sharing a glimpse of both 🙂
awesome colors!
Gorgeous! My little would love something knit up with that!
The birdlife in your area is amazing. Love that nest. Thanks for the giveaway, Linda, that yarn is beautiful.
beautiful!! such perfect colors. Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂
Pick me pick me, I’ve got loads I need to get done with some lovely wool.
Beautifl bird photos, it is lovely to see the birds from far away places, they are so brightly coloured. The yarn is gorgeous too
Hallo Linda,
Beautifull, the colors of the birds and yarn are the same, that look so nice…I love the chickens how the root up your plants.!!!!
grtzz Nel
hi!
i live just downtown, in a small city, and my house have a beautifull graden space, with some tipycal brasilian birds, like “joão de barro” (mood john) and sabiá, they like to eat avocados and tangerines in my trees
and i also have a cat, who loves to chase them, put never get sucess
It’s beautiful!
That nest is a work of art! Such colourful birds. We have a few bright bird like that but I pray they stay away from our garden and my little black panther (even if she is old and incontinent she can still catch birds!) LOVE the chickens, aren’t they good at getting into everything that they shouldn’t…Hee Hee! If I win that gorgeous yarn can you donate it to Suzana above from Croatia for her kids, she is right they would love it 🙂
How I especially love weaver birds. So many beautiful birds wild and tame! Gorgeous yarn, Linda. Happy week to you and your family.
Best wishes
Kelly
oh my,
no wonder you already have 89 comments, that yarn is amazing!!!
Your yarn is so beautiful! And so are all the patterns that you so generously provide. I made the knitted wreath as a present for Christmas. Thanks for the giveaway!
Beautiful yarn, beautiful birds. Are you having fun with that lovely spinning wheel?
Just had to come back and see those pretty birds and yarn again… 🙂
Rainbows are my favorite!
Dear Dulcie,
I am really enjoying my new wheel:)
Take care,
Linda
That yarn is just so gorgeous! I’m going to take advantage of every chance I have to win.
I would love to win some of your handspun South African yarn!
Happy Monday!
yes!! i love it!!!
what a lovely giveaway
I’m new to your blog and have really enjoyed it so far! Thank you for doing this giveaway. I love that yarn!!!
customcreationsbyblessed2009@yahoo.com
Thank you Linda for another beautiful giveaway!
Already have plans for that gorgeous yarn! 🙂
Love your latest giveaway! The colors remind me of spring to come! Snow day here in Nebraska!
Best,
Sheila
Fabulous colours!!
Thank you
Second day comment! Thanks for hosting another giveaway of your beautiful yarn! I’m trying to convince my husband to buy me pieces to make a niddy noddy for my birthday – it’ll make dyeing yarn that much easier. (:
Thanks for the opportunity to win such a grand giveaway! 🙂
This yarn is absolutely divine!
What a great giveaway – love the colors in the yarn.
vah_mom@hotmail.com
Lovely colours. Thanks for the give-away and for sharing so much of your family life with us, it’s a joy to read each time…
Andreag12 at gmail dot com
Another Day, another comment, because I WANT TO WIN THIS YARN! it’s sooooo beautiful!
Oh how I love love love this yarn. You’re such a sweetheart for doing such wonderful giveaways!
Tabatha D
Oh Linda as always your yarns are beautiful. What a treasure it would be to win.
Blessings, Elizabeth
What beautiful photos, I especially love the colour of the birds that are local visitors 🙂
Thank you for the great giveaway, I’m just getting started with knitting, I especially love the rainbow colours, my son is the rainbow king 🙂
Gorgeous yarn! I’d be happy to knit something up for my new baby with that 🙂
Thanks for offering it!
Kat
katkirkwood@gmail.com
GORGEOUS yarn Linda 🙂 I am absolutely smitten with multi colored wool right now so I’m hoping I might be the lucky one *grin*.
I will have another try . thank you again for your continuous generosity
Love
Wendy
I love it! Just gorgeous. Wish I could spin. x
I like the pictures of the birds , wish to have such birds in my backyard 😉
And I really love the colours of your give away , super !!
I love this yarn. Beautiful colors!
absolutely beautiful
the colors speak to me as I look out on our white winter wonderland right now – record December for snowfall and forecast for snow everyday this week! I could use some color to knit with about now!!
My Tuesday entry!
The colors of the yarn and birds is just amazing. Corssing my fingers.
Blessings, Elizabeth
What a beautiful yarn, I would love to win and knit something for my year old with it!
Back for another chance to win this beautiful rainbow wool, it would be perfect to create something for my second born who was born in your rainbow nation…
Andreag12 at gmail dot com
The yarn is gorgeous! As are the birds!! I have a special place in my heart for chickens 🙂
This is my Tuesday entry. We are having a SNOW day and those colors just warm me up!
I love the weaver bird’s nest it genius
moe
Thank you for COLOR! Everywhere I’m looking at the moment is white.
Here is my Wednesday entry 🙂
I am very excited!
Yes, I’m back again the yarn is just too yummy!
Blessings, Elizabeth
Such a rainbow of sunshine! It would certainly brighten up my day with the 8 inches of snow that has just fallen outside! Thanks for the wonderful blog and the glimpse to your home!
Cheryl in New Jersey, USA
Lovely rainbow-yarn!!!
Send you greetings from germany. Love your blog.
Petra
One last chance to win this gorgeous yarn? Thanks!
Andreag12 at gmail dot com
I’ve been admiring this in your pictures! So beautiful & cheerful!
One more time, if it’s not too late… I haven’t checked the time zones to figure out when your Wednesday and my Wednesday line up. 🙂
The more I see it the more I want it!