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Giveaway: Ginger Blossoms

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Ginger Blossoms – Here we are all about imagination and sparking creativity!
All felt food sets are completely hand-made. They are made from 100% recycled eco-friendly felt. So they are great for your little ones and good for the environment! These felt food sets are great for any age, and boys or girls. They are great for any play kitchen or grocery store, and make great birthday gifts and favors. All sets can be customized in any way you would like.

We are giving you the chance to win 1 of these delightful Strawberry Cream Cupcakes. For your chance to win simply enter here. We have 3 to giveaway !

Competition Open -Worldwide

Competition Closes- 1st of July

Cookies For a Cause

Here at our little store, we like to give back! I have lost two very important people to me to cancer, and so I started cookies for cancer. For each set of cookies that is sold a portion of the profits go to the Huntsman cancer Foundation in Salt Lake City, UT. http://www.huntsmancancerfoundation.org/

Sweet Cookies 6 for $10.00

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Make Your Knitting Machine Scarves Better

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

  • the simple cinching method mentioned above
  • sewing the stitches together
  • three needle bind off
  • grafting
  • crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!