Candle Country’s Donuts, Bears and More

I found out about Candle Country through the Facebook group Canadian Candle Makers and the People Who Love Them.

Candle Country makes the most realistic and delicious looking bakery candles. These donuts look good enough to eat! They also create candles for weddings, baby showers and more. Some of their food candles I have never seen anywhere else. Vegetable candles sold are corn on the cob, tossed salad, deviled eggs, lobster, tomatoes, broccoli, celery, peppers, olives and more.

Check out this adorable baby booties tart and warmer. What a great baby shower favor/prize idea. Other baby themed candles offered are stand alone baby booties, wash cloths, bibs, safety pins and sleeping baby tarts.

There are numerous dipped in wax plush animals to choose from but my favorite has got to be the chef with a heart. They’re dipped with your choice of scented soy wax and are used as air fresheners.

If you’re looking for romance try some chocolate covered strawberries, kissable lip tarts, pink champagne bottles or fancy heart tarts.

This is one talented busy woman and the selection offered at Candle Country is impressive. If you wanted to try your hand at making your own she even has a page of molds for sale.

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Getting ready for back to school makes me think about pencil crafts, so let’s take a look at some pencil themed knitting patterns!

I recently made a pencil on a circular knitting machine, and it was a fun, quick, easy project that uses little bits of leftover yarn (and if you don’t have yellow you can make it a colored pencil using whatever color’s your favorite). And if you want to make a bigger version check out this pattern from Orange Olive Road on Etsy.

If you want to knit a pencil pillow by hand, check out Sketchy, available on Ravelry from Shana S. Cohen. This one uses worsted weight yarn and has two size options and the choice to make a pencil with an eraser or a colored pencil.

Pencil scarves seem to be the most popular kind of pencil knitting pattern, and there are lot of cute ones. This one from Cosy Craft UK mostly uses garter stitch, with some welts to add texture and what looks like an I-cord edging. It calls for DK weight yarn.

If you want to go all garter stitch try this version from Emsley Co Creations, which uses five colors of DK weight yarn and just a little shaping to make the point of the pencil.

There’s also this fun, mostly stockinette so it looks like it curls a bit, pencil pattern that looks like it’s worked in chunky yarn from Little Knits Studio. This one uses just a little garter stitch and easy shaping for the point.

If you don’t want a pencil scarf, how about some pencil socks? The No. 2 Pencil Socks from The Yarn Enabler are available from Ravelry and use five colors of sock yarn. They feature wide ribs to mimic the texture of a pencil and have options to be worked from the top down or the toe up.

Needs Sharpening by Alexander Walker is a free pattern on Ravelry that uses five colors of sock yarn to make a sort of shortie sock. The little bit of black at the tips of the toes inspired the name. These, too, can be worked in either direction and are available in three sizes.

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