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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:

Win a year’s supply of handmade soaps at CraftGossip.com! http://bit.ly/bBHL2O #craftgossip

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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Just about anything you can make in fabric you can make in knitting, but there are some styles that you just don’t see that often translated into knitting. 

For example, a button down collared shirt. This is a classic design, of course, and it looks great in a knit version, but it’s just not something you see much of. 

Noma Ndlovu’s Guglethu shirt is the pattern to try if you want to knit your own button down shirt. This one is inspired by cashmere tops (though the sample was made out of yak yarn, not cashmere, and uses two strands of lace weight yarn held together) and includes lots of high-fashion details like double-knit cuffs, collar and shoulder seams. 

It has a patch pocket on the front and 10 buttons including the button band and the cuffs. 

The designer says you can also use a DK weight yarn held singly if you’d rather, and that the shirt looks good in a variety of yarns. There is another version on Ravelry that uses Berroco Remix Light, which is a mix of nylon, cotton, acrylic, silk and cellulose fibers. It has a more relaxed look but it still really pretty. 

The pattern has 12 sizes, with a full bust measurement ranging from 32.35 to 72.25 inches, or 82 to 183.5 cm. The designer suggests 2 to 6 inches, or 5 to 15 cm, of positive ease when you pick your size. I could totally see knitting one that’s even bigger to wear more like a jacket, because I do that a lot with button down shirts I already own.

I love all the details on this shirt, which isn’t necessarily difficult to knit, but might introduce you to some things you’ve never knit before (like those cuffs with the plackets, or a shirt collar like this). 

To learn more about this shirt and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself, head to Ravelry. 

[Photo: Noma Ndlovu]

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