Giveaway from Pure Integrity Soy Candles

If you’re looking for a clean burning, highly scented candle that lasts, Pure Integrity Soy Candles might be for you.

Teresa and her husband Jeff Schumacher teamed up to start their candle making business in their kitchen. They later expanded into a factory that supplies three stores, along with several boutiques and salons.

Pure Integrity Soy Candles have been showcased in Business First, Women’s World Magazine, Buffalo News and have been interviewed locally on ABC and CBS multiple times.

They admit their first experimental candles were horrible, but after much trial and error came up with their “Innovative Fragrance Technology”, which allows them to use 50% more fragrance than regular scented candles. “Our fragrances are so pure and so realistic they will knock your socks off!”

The Soy Candle Giveaway

For this giveaway, Pure Integrity Soy Candles is offering the winner (US resident) a 16oz candle worth $19.99 of their choice. There are 70 scents to choose from, but I’d probably go for blueberry, apple crisp, pumpkin pie, fresh linen or summer bouquet.

Everyone who enters the contest will get an opportunity to post a candle making/candle business question here and Jeff and Teresa will personally respond and answer.

We won’t be grading your questions, so will simply draw a number to pick a winner on July 5th. The winner will still have to ask Jeff and Teresa a question here though. Good luck winning one of these wonderful soy candles from Pure Integrity Soy Candles!

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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