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Review and Giveaway: Kellie Christie – A brand of her own

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Kellie Christie – Jewellery Designer

Kellie Christie started making jewellery just 6 years ago and has since created a mini brand all of her own.

Kellie has a background in fine art and majored in printmaking but her passion today is using “found” buttons to create unique one off designs.

Kellie’s pieces can be bought via her Etsy Store or Madeit store from as little as $10 a piece for earrings or $35 for a necklace making her jewellery line affordable for all fashionistas. Kelliechristie.blogspot.com

Button necklaces are very popular right now and for good reason as they look fantastic and ooze the very essence of handmade by using a crafty material such as a button. So embellish your life with some handmade art!

WIN WIN WIN

Kellie is giving our readers the chance to win a pair of custom-made polymer clay button earrings for your chance to win simply enter here.

Competition open Worldwide

Competition closes 1st of August

Kelliechristie.blogspot.com


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Comments

  1. Those are so creative! I think designers that use “recycled” materials like she does are so creative! I, for one, would never have thought to use buttons as a basis for jewelry. They are beautiful!

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Make Your Knitting Machine Scarves Better

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!