Make Your Own Soy Candles

Making your own candles is a rewarding and satisfying experience. Not only do you get to create something beautiful, but you can also customize your candles to your specific preferences. If you’re new to candle making, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Fortunately, Life at Cobble Hill Farm has an excellent tutorial on making your own soy candles from scratch.

The tutorial takes you through the entire process, from selecting the right type of wax to adding the finishing touches. One of the benefits of making soy candles is that soy wax is a natural and eco-friendly alternative to paraffin wax. It’s also easy to work with and has a long burn time.

The tutorial offers many tips and tricks, including the importance of measuring your ingredients accurately and using the right type of wick for your candle. The wick is especially important, as it can affect the way your candle burns. The tutorial also offers advice on selecting the right fragrance oils for your candles, as well as how to properly melt and pour the wax.

One thing that sets this tutorial apart is its attention to detail. The author explains not only how to make the candles, but also how to troubleshoot common problems that may arise, such as frosting or tunneling. This makes the tutorial a valuable resource for both beginners and more experienced candle makers.

Life at Cobble Hill Farm walks you through the process of making your own soy candles from scratch, with a lot of great tips and details.

Read These Next

If you’re looking for cute and quick Halloween knitting patterns, you’ve come to the right place. This collection of small patterns is perfect for last minute decor or when you want to make a bunch of the same thing, or you’re just looking for some quick gratification.

These little treat bags from Dolly Time are so cute, and the little appliques of a pumpkin, cat, witch and owl could also be used on other projects. They call for DK weight yarn to make 5 by 4.5 inch/13 by 11 cm bags; use thicker yarn to make bags that are a little bigger if you want. All the knitting is done flat.

This Halloween collection from Milla Mia (available as a free download on Ravelry) includes a cute knit bat (shown here) and spider, as well as candle wrappers featuring bats, cats and spiders. They all use DK weight yarn. To make the bat you’ll need a tennis ball or a foam ball to make the body.

Another creepy cute free download from Ravelry is this knit eyeball pattern from Mary Jane Mucklestone. These would be fun to make into backpack charms or earrings, or to hide around the house as a funny Halloween prank. I’m sure you can come up with lots of other ways to use them, too. The ones shown were worked with fingering weight yarn, but again you can change up the yarn to make them bigger. How about a blanket yarn eye shaped pillow?

The Halloween hangers from Lorraine Pistorio are just cute. These designs are worked in DK weight yarn and include a ghost, candy corn, pumpkin, Frankenstein’s monster and witch, all with cute little faces. They are worked in the round and considered intermediate patterns. You can find them on Ravelry.

Speaking of backpack charms, Gathered has a set of four little Halloween charms that are perfect for backpacks, keyrings, or to make into a garland. The free pattern includes a bat, cat, Frankenstein’s monster and witch’s hat. They use DK weight yarn.

Ruby and the Foxes has a few Halloween themed bunting patterns that would also be cute to stitch on washcloths or other projects. The graveyard set is shown here, but there are also black cats and other images to choose from. The patterns use DK weight yarn and include tips on how to make the project into a bunting.

If you want to knit actual washcloths for Halloween, I like this pumpkin shaped one that’s a free pattern from Colour it Green. The original uses DK yarn but worsted weight cotton is easier to find and will just make it a little bigger.

Read These Next

Have you read?