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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One of the fun things about cross stitch is all the different surfaces you can stitch on. Of course regular cross stitch fabric is the most common, you can stitch on anything with holes (and even sometimes on things without holes, if you use water soluble cross stitch fabric.

An option that has become more popular with the widespread availability of laser cutting machines is wooden blanks, which are often cut in shape to be bookmarks, holiday ornaments or other simple shapes. They can be keychains, picture frames or necklaces.

(While not wooden I even have a stitchable journal that I cross-stitched on.)

Stitching on wood or heavy card stock isn’t the same as stitching with regular cross stitch fabric, so Craft with Cartwright wrote a post about how best to work with these wooden blanks.

The main thing to know is that you don’t need a sharp needle because the holes are drilled. She also has tips on how to manage your thread (she recommends one strand of embroidery floss folded in half) and finish your project if you need help with that.

Check out the post at Craft with Cartwright for tons of tips and ideas for working with wooden blanks.

Ready to try it out for yourself? You can get rectangular pieces your could mount to a journal yourself from Toms New Old Things.

Fiore Designs has square blanks that come in different sizes and colors for your crafting needs. I am putting some stamp shaped blanks from Lunari Woods on my wish list (they also have gift tags in different sizes and colors).

You can get stitchable keychains from Millions of Stitches, circles from Geniuses of Wood, baubles from Pip and Chip and Christmas ornament shapes from Happy Stitching Time to name just a few.

Have you ever stitched on a wooden blank? I’d love to hear any tips you have!

[Photo: Craft with Cartwright]

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