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NEW Coloring Books For Water Colors – Giveaway!

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Coloring in books have just got more advanced with a whole new range or coloring in books for use with Water color paints!

I really love the idea of these books, cause whilst I enjoy being creative I also enjoy down time. Now as my work is craft, downtime for me is not crafting. These books allow me to just paint with out having to think of a design or plan a time to clear my mind. This book helps me to clear my mind by doing all the creative thinking for me. Love being able to just relax and paint….

These books have 25  sketches printed on  watercolor paper.  The author shares painting tips for each sketch and advice for discovering the artist within. Also included is a painting tutorial and handy color wheel. Each book is small enough to carry anywhere and simple to use. Creativity is an escape, and these books offer a delightful way to make art regardless of your artistic abilities. Check out the video below

Painterly Days books are available here at $24.99 each by Kristy Rice.

GIVEAWAY!!

We love this new range of books so much that we are giving a lucky reader the chance to win a set of these 3 titles.

For your chance to win comment below and tell us where you like to paint. Giveaway closes August 1st.

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Comments

  1. Gorgeous designs in these pretty coloring books! It would give me some practice with water colors! I like to paint while watching TV, so I would do that in my livingroom at the coffee table!

  3. I would love to win these wonderful books because it would give me the opportunity to practice watercolor painting. I like to paint in my studio when time permits. These books would make me want to create more time to paint!

  4. Watercolour is my absolute favourite and these colouring books would be perfect to practise a beautiful art. I paint and draw anywhere the mood strikes me!

  6. I love to paint with my group of fellow seniors. We encourage each other and laugh a lot.

  7. My painting skills are at best sad but coloring I am good at. I love to sit on my front porch.

  11. I’ve never really done any painting – but I do love a good colouring session!

  12. I usually paint at home, but with the new portable paint pens, I would paint anywhere!

  17. I like to paint outside, it is sooooo relaxing. These would be a great treat!

  18. I love watercolor and these designs are absolutely gorgeous. What a great gift to win!

  21. Watercoloring is a passion of mine and to be able to use my watercolors in these beautiful coloring books would be amazing! I am working on getting a bunch of coloring pages framed and making a wall that highlights them! Thanks for the chance to add these beautiful books to my wall display! Fingers crossed!

  23. I like to paint at what I call my Coloring Station. It’s in my living room, and my little table is set up for watercolor and coloring, complete with Ottlite and two cats! I was happy to see that someone made a book for watercolorists, and I can’t wait to try one of them.

  24. My daughter (15) is the artist when it comes to freehand drawing, painting, pastels anything really. Painting really helps with her anxiety and depression. She usually paints in her bedroom or at the dining room table but when she draws it’s usually near me wherever I happen to be sitting. I’m so grateful for arts and crafts of all kinds and how they help people. Thank you for offering this giveaway.

  25. I’m so excited to see these new books – Coloring is a fun pastime but watercolor really excites me and with these, I don’t have to find a scene or object to sketch first! Definitely adding these to my wishlist!

  26. Now that my daughter has moved out, I’m lucky enough to have a craft room where I knit, embroider, weave, make cards and paint. I always paint standing up.

  27. I have an open floor plan in my home and I love to paint in our dining area that lets in lots of natural light. I would love to give these books a try. Thanks for the opportunity.

  28. I like to paint near my flower garden, sitting in the shade of a tree. About 72 degrees, light breeze, glass of iced tea . . . heaven.

  29. How very beautiful! I love to color on my porch in the evening, and painting sounds even better. Thank you for this generous opportunity.

  30. I love to color wherever possible. I don’t watch tv, so I sit next to my husband and keep him company while I color. I took a watercolor class and I found it very relaxing. I would love to win these coloring books, they look amazing. Thanks for the chance!

    Carmen
    cal8007 at aol dot com

  38. These are gorgeous! I haven´t used my watercolours for years-these would be a great excuse to re-start. I do my acrylic painting in the study (as I don´t have a studio – yet!).

  41. I would love to learn to watercolor. I color at a small table that I have set up in my flower garden . Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to win these coloring books.

  45. I love to paint in my screened porch listening to the birds and enjoying all of my flowers.

  48. How lovely! I like to paint in my terrace. There is a nice quiet place overlooking the trees with birds singing all day….

  49. I love painting in front of my poodle Hershey’s picture! He was 16 yrs old
    when he passed away last year. I got into coloring and watercolor painting to help me through my grieving process. His passing opened my eyes to a new world!

  52. These books look fantastic! When I paint it’s usually at the kitchen table with the kids, but I love to paint outside too.

  53. Gosh, I haven’t painted in awhile. But when I took Watercolour Painting in College we would paint in the Rose Garden in the park across the street from my college. Thanks and God bless! ILuvTheEucharist (at) aol.com

  54. I paint at my dining room table – the light is perfect and we rarely eat at the dining table so is a good use of the table and it keeps me painting more often as my painting supplies as always out and convenient when inspiration strikes

  55. Would love to win these WC books on a budget always can’t have what I would love

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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!