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.

For years now Berroco has been releasing a tiny set of Christmas ornament knitting patterns, often modeled on human-sized clothes, called Minutia. The ones for this year haven’t come out yet, but somehow I missed last year’s so I wanted to share them, as well as a fun little twist they offered.

The general 2025 Minutia patterns include a circular yoke sweater, a two-color stocking and a ribbed earflap hat. They’re super cute and perfect for using little (or should I say minute?) amounts of yarn left over from other projects. Make them in Christmas colors or whatever you have on hand. Even if you don’t have exactly the same yarn weight, you can still make these cute additions to your holiday decor.

But what really caught my eye while I was on the Berocco site was the Team Colors Minutia, which are actually different patterns so I’m not even sure when they were released, but they are definitely worth talking about.

These patterns include a little raglan sweater with stripes and a stocking cap with contrasting pom pom.

They call for sport weight yarn, but again you could use sock or DK if that’s what you have in the right colors. And here the right colors are important because you’re stitching your team colors.

Or anyone else’s team colors.

I immediately thought that this would be an amazing holiday gift for someone who you never know what to get but who also happens to like sports. Or has gone to a university that has colors.

Another option would be to leave off the stripes and add a number in duplicate stitch if you or the person you’re knitting for has a favorite player. Or stitch a letter or a tiny version of the team logo on the front. There are lots of options!

If you make these, I’d love to hear what you did with them!

[Photo: Berroco]

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