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!

Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier.

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project.

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible.

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge.

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects.

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy.

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project.

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Xandy Peters]

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