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Lacey Doily Candle Holder Tutorial

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These lacey doily candle holders look so pretty in pastel colors and would be perfect for an Easter craft! As a bonus, they’re so easy that small children could help create them.

To dye the actual votive candle holder, pick which shade of tissue paper you want and then glue it on.

Then, if you wanted colored doilies, dip them in water dyed with food coloring. If you wanted to get really funky, you could use a paint brush and layer colors to make it look like tie dye.

I discovered this idea on Parents.com, so visit Holiday Gifts Kids Can Make: Lacey Candles for details.

 

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Play with Texture and Embroidery in this Intarsia Knit Shawl

This is a project that kind of stopped me in my tracks when I saw it while scrolling Ravelry. It’s such a fun contrast of a semisolid color worked in stockinette stitch and a more tonal yarn worked in a feather and fan variation. 

(See more about feather and fan in this post on my blog; I also have a feather and fan scarf if you want to practice.)

The Nitty Wrap from Renate Dziedataja is worked in fingering weight yarn from a Finnish mill, and the name is the Finnish word for meadow. You of course can use whatever yarn you have handy.

It’s even more interesting because the project is worked from one short end across to make a long rectangle, and the two different sections are joined using intarsia. Generally we think of intarsia as being used for colorwork, so this is a fun different use of it. The lace section is charted in the pattern but it’s pretty easy to follow. 

And of course it’s totally optional but to add a little more interest and tie the two colors of yarn together the designer also added some embroidery along the short edges on the stockinette side. A drawing of what she did is included but you can also add different designs if you’d rather. 

The shawl has I-cord edgings to give it a nice finished look that doesn’t take away from the organic simplicity of the design. 

As shown, the shawl measures about 22.5 inches/57 cm wide and 59 inches/150 cm long. You can of course adjust this according to your preference, the amount of yarn you have and the gauge you are getting. Try a thicker yarn to make a wider shawl if you like. 

This pattern is available in English and Latvian for free on Ravelry. 

Photo: Renate Dziedataja