Candle Carving – Craft Gossip

Are you looking for a unique and beautiful way to add some light and style to your home decor? Look no further than the hand-carved candles from Candle Quilters. These candles are not only beautiful to look at but also contain a tube filled with candle oil, allowing the design to stay intact while only the inside burns. Shown here is the stunning bows and sashes hand-carved style candle in a vibrant yellow and green color scheme. However, the colors can also be customized to suit your individual taste and decor preferences.

To see more of their beautiful selection and styles, check out Candle Quiltergallery. Whether you’re looking for a special gift for a loved one or just want to add some unique and beautiful decor to your home, these hand-carved candles are sure to impress.

If you’re feeling particularly crafty, you may even want to try carving your own candles. Luckily, The Candle Carving Site offers a free guide to candle carving different designs, showing you which tools and methods to use for each one. It may take some practice, but with determination and patience, you could create your own beautiful and unique candles.

If you’re looking for a more comprehensive guide to candle carving, Candle Fun offers more detailed instructions on DVD. Learning how to carve candles could be a fun and rewarding hobby, and the end result is sure to impress anyone who sees your handiwork.

In conclusion, hand-carved candles are a unique and beautiful way to add some personality and style to your home decor. Whether you purchase a beautifully crafted candle from Candle Quilters or try carving your own, the end result is sure to be stunning. So, why not give it a try and see what beautiful designs you can create?

Here’s one of my favorite candle carving videos from Tracy Birch that I posted previously.

Candle Fun offers more detailed instructions on DVD. I would love to learn how to do this. I suspect it would take a lot of practice to make something presentable.

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I haven’t knit a lot of hats, because I don’t wear hats that often, and because I don’t wear hats that often, the ones I have knit tend to be pretty basic and utilitarian. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s also nothing wrong with treating yourself to a lovely hat that takes a little more time to knit but will also be a joy to wear whenever you need to.

I think the Two Grey Hills hat from Tressa Weidenaar is an example of that second kind of hat. With its allover colorwork design and use of DK weight yarn, this is going to take you longer to knit than, say, a ribbed hat in bulky yarn. But you’ll also get that time to enjoy the process and reflect on the meaning behind the colorwork, which is inspired by Navajo weavings.

The pattern calls for two colors of DK yarn and is available in two sizes, adult medium and large. Two colors with a nice contrast will be helpful for seeing the design, which is somewhat intricate in places.

Despite that, this isn’t a difficult pattern if you’ve done stranded knitting before. You need to know how to cast on, knit, purl, work in the round, do colorwork from a chart and decrease stitches to make this hat.

Make this hat with a soft yarn and you’ll want to wear it all day, every day when the weather is cold. You can grab the pattern on Ravelry, and also check out the Rug Weaver’s Headband, which has a different look but is also inspired by Navajo weaving. The headband might be a better choice to knit if you don’t live somewhere where you need a winter hat that often.

Looking for more hats? Check out these hat knitting patterns that use worsted weight yarn leftovers.

[Photo: Tressa Weidenaar]

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