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Candle Decorations – Rosepetals, Rosebuds, Lavender, Jasmine, Gomphrena, Chrysantherum

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Today’s article is about dried flowers for candles. You may recall the loaded candles we wrote about last year. Well, these are some pretty botanicals you can purchase to add to the tops of your candles. Loaded candles or botanical candles are very popular right now and are really pretty to gift to family and friends. We get lots of comment about candles with flowers on top and if they are safe to burn.

You should remove the items as the candle burns down, as always candles should NEVER be left unattended, allowing you the opportunity to pop the potentially flammable items out when they come too close to the flame.

  • Great Variety: The kit contains 9 most beautiful popular flowers for you apply for various purposes: Rose buds, Rose petals, Lavender, Jasmine Flower, Yellow Chrysanthemum, Forget me not, Lily Flower, Red and Purple Gomphrena, each 10gr-20gr/pack.
  • Natural and Safe: These flowers are planted and dried in Vietnam, completely without chemicals and addings. Miw Piw has the best quality products that you can use for any kind of DIY activities: nail, jewelry, cosmetic making or aromatherapy.
  • DIY with Full of Joy: These gorgeous colorful flowers will make your decoration ideas, candles making, resin jewelry, bath bombs, perfume sachets more appealing and precious. Just relax and enjoy.
  • Natural Skincare Therapy: These flowers contain organic substances that prevent aging and soften your skin so you can easily create your own cleanser, moisturizer, inflammation reliever, soap, toner, lotion, perfume, lip balm, … that is most suitable for you.
  • Perfect Gifts: Each type of flowers is packed in a separate bag and put together in a charming designed box which will become an ideal stunning gift for your love ones.

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Get Graphic with the Snug Wrap Knitting Pattern

I don’t know if it’s possible to look at the Snug Wrap from Sylvia Watts-Cherry and not smile. There’s so much fun stuff going on in it that if I had a bunch of sport weight yarn in my house I definitely would have cast this one on immediately after seeing it.

There’s stripes and circles of different sizes and colors, worked with intarsia. The wrap is worked sideways in both garter stitch and stockinette, so different sections also have different textures. Color blocking means you’ll use a lot of two main colors, and there are two more colors used for contrast throughout the piece.

As I mentioned, the project calls for sport weight yarn, and it’s already pretty big — 23.25 by 82 inches or 59 by 208 cm — so you probably wouldn’t want to use heavier yarn unless you just want to make it a super scarf. You could use even lighter yarn to make it more of a scarf than a shawl if you wanted.

The yarn used is a combination of Merino wool and recycled threads from La Bien Aimée’s yarn making process, so it’s a fun way to reduce waste while making something awesome.

The color motifs are depicted in charts in the pattern, but none of these are difficult so even if you’re new to chart reading you should be able to handle this pattern. The colors in the sample are so pretty but you can of course change it up with your favorites that will make you smile as you knit and wear this super fun pattern.

As usual, checking out the projects tab on Ravelry will show you some more fun color options. I love the idea of using jewel tones to give it a more wintry look, but the sky is the limit when it comes to color options.

You can find this pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Sylvia Watts-Cherry]