Giveaway - Knit Vest with Hand Spun Yarn from Springtree Road

This was lots of fun!

I came upon this lovely blog and left a comment when Maya was offering a free skein of her beautiful handspun and hand dyed yarn to someone who would knit something from it from a free pattern found online and then blog about it. I have decided to take the giving one step further and offer the finished work to one of my blog readers.

First, let me introduce you to Maya, of Springtree Road, in her words ~

Springtree Road is about family and feeling connected to both the past and present. The actual Springtree Road is where I grew up: my grandparents’ house in Athens, Georgia, where I stayed after school and on most summer days. My grandparents were simple folks who gardened and built things, cooked and crafted. Before retiring, they both worked at the same textile mill together. My grandfather tended to the machines and my grandmother worked them to spin the fabric for the little bandages on Band-Aids.

So it feels like a lovely coincidence, a happy accident, a full-circle, good karma kind of thing that I would happen onto spinning yarn. I was looking for a way to ensure that I could stay home with my daughter and it fell right into my lap. Before that, spinning was always on my list of things I wanted to learn someday. Of course someday almost never comes, so I’m thankful for the unforeseen push that led me to pursue fiber as both an art and a business.

The best part is that I love it. I do it all myself – the yarn that you see in my shop usually starts as either commercial wool top or fresh off the sheep. I dye it here at home in very small batches (usually 4-6 at a time), spin it in my living room, photograph it in my backyard, and mail it out to you in yummy little yarn cakes that I wind up on the ball winder I keep in my fiber room. My 4-year-old personally hugs each package before we send it on its way. There’s a lot of love in what I do.

Next, let me show you which skein of yarn I chose from her beautiful shop - this was not easy.

~the yarn I chose, so amazingly soft and beautiful~

I knew that I would use one of my favorite patterns. This so simple baby vest found at the Thrifty Knitter. It was such a joy to knit with this yarn.

Here is the finished vest. It will fit an infant about 3 months - 12 months. Our family made the natural birch buttons.

To win the vest and a the leftover yarn that would be enough to knit a little gnome or baby hat, just leave a comment and to be entered twice, blog about the giveaway and leave another comment after you do.

The drawing will be Friday morning, July 16 at 7:00 am EST.

Many thanks to Maya for offering me the opportunity to knit with her beautiful yarn and The Thrifty Knitter for sharing the pattern.