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Giveaway: Win Professional Photos for Your Party!

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Kids Party

Photographer Central is the most comprehensive directory for finding and hiring professional photographers. It’s simple to use and you can find a photographer for any event in your life including kids or adult parties! Their site is designed to make your research process as streamlined as possible using filters that allow you to sort by price, style, genre, location, as well as an option to save businesses to a favorites group for easy comparison.

To find the perfect photographer on Photographer Central:

  1. Specify a location and your keywords.
  2. Start scrolling through all of the high-res photos.
  3. If you need to narrow down your search results use the secondary filters that narrow by style, price, distance and more.
  4. Once you find a photographer that you want to learn more about, open up their profile and you will find a full snapshot of that photographer’s reputation with recommendations submitted directly to not only Photographer Central, but also from Yelp and Google Business. You will also find the photographers contact information with the ability to message them instantly.

Are you worried about how you’ll look in your party pix? Here’s how to look your best in photos, courtesy of Photographer Central Pro Hari Simons:

  1. Standing up straight not only long elongates your body, but it also helps you exude confidence, which is always attractive. Try pulling your shoulders back, chest forward, and extend your chin forward just slightly.
  2. Getting photographed from below can add the illusion of a double chin so make sure the camera is at least at eye-level.
  3. When it comes down to it, one of the best things you can do is simply relax. If you’re stressed about how you look, that feeling will come through. So just smile naturally and have fun!

If you have a special event coming up, Photographer Central has generously offered to provide one lucky Craft Gossip reader with a $50 gift card to use towards purchasing photography services from their site. To enter, leave a comment telling me what type of party you have planned that you want great pictures of. I’ll choose a random winner on June 24.

UPDATE: Lucky #7 is our winner. Thank you all for entering. 

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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!