New knitted Squirrel Design and Squirrel Pattern

Today I have been working on a new design for a Squirrel, I have had a few requests for a squirrel pattern so I thought today would be a good day to write one:) Here he is...

I have knitted him all in one this time, which I prefer and this makes him an easy knit:)

Just going to put all my notes and photos into a readable format and then I will add him to Ravelry and my Etsy shop:)

Happy Monday:)
xo
Linda

Green in the Garden...

I love to walk around our garden in the late afternoons... The sun setting, casting long shadows, creating the most wonderful light that shimmers off of everything that it touches... I walked around our garden with my camera and took photos of everything that we have been busy with over the last week... The green is amazing, we have been having so much rain lately, the grass has rejuvenated overnight and our fruit trees are abundant with fruit...

As I walked through the herb garden, I looked up and saw how the sun's rays were dancing around these Calendula flowers...

This weekend, I managed to find some thornless Blackberries! I was so excited, I bought four vines and mixed them amongst our Raspberries. We also placed trellisses behind them for support as they grow and extended out irrigation. I can't wait for them to fruit!

A Calendula flower...

These are the new fruit trees we have planted, this one is a Naartjie, then an Apple and another Naartjie. The naartjies have already started to grow...

An exciting discovery... our Apple tree has blossoms! I am really hoping for apples to appear:)

Grapefruits have started to grow on our Grapefruit trees too.

Our grapevine extends all the way across the front of our home and provides wonderful shade. The girls counted 78 bunches of grapes so far!

Our tomatoes are reaching a lovely size and are still green. I have heard of fried green tomatoes, anyone made them before, what do they taste like?

We have found 4 Litchis on our Litchi tree! Yay!

Our Peaches are almost ready to pick too...

Thanks for stopping by :)
Take care
Linda

Mohair Cat Family....

This week I have been busy with a custom order of a Family of white Mohair Cats. I had such fun working out the dimensions for the different kittys, and Kye loved them so much, that I think I will make him some for Christmas:) I posted them off to their new home in Canada yesterday. I knitted them in a soft brushed mohair and mama cat stands a proud 7 inches tall. I so enjoyed making up this order:)

Happy Saturday to you all...

Linda

Creative Friday

Welcome to Creative Friday :) Thank you so much to everyone who shares the love and posts their links to their amazing work:) 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.blogspot.com/ so others can find this space and share their creativity too:)

NEW...Knitted Hedgehog Pattern

Today I have added my new Hedgehog pattern to my Etsy shop. She is knitted in the Magic Loop Technique in the round. This is such an amazing technique, I love it! The pattern consists of 6 pages of detailed instrustions with photos. There are many tutorials on the net to learn how to do the Magic Loop:)

I also added Snowflake the Hedgehog to my shop but she has already sold out. I will be knitting more by request only:)

Happy day to all:)
xo
Linda