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Year's Supply of Soap!

This competition is over. Winner announced on Twitter.

Yes, that is right! We at CraftGossip.com are giving away a year’s supply of handmade soaps to one lucky winner!

Your soaps will be delivered to you in assorted scents and fragrances to make your shower time a delight for the next year. For the record, a year’s supply of soap is 24 bars of soap.

Continue on to read how you can win this Twitter only competition.

To win, all you need to do is include the #craftgossip tag in any tweet on Twitter. You can be creative with your tweet or re-tweet this post, but don’t forget to follow us @craftgossip to find out if you’ve won as the winner will only be announced via our Twitter account.

You can tweet the following:

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If you are not on Twitter, then you can’t enter this competition on CraftGossip. Our sister site, Craftbits.com is running a similar competition and you can enter it there.

Competition is open worldwide and ends on the 31st of July 2010.

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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!