Quick St. Patrick’s Day Candles

Happy St. Patrick’s Day my fellow candle crazy readers! I hope you’re having a good one so far.

If you’re getting ready to party, it may be too late to buy candles for your St. Patrick’s Day party décor. Here are some quick candle hack ideas to transform your blasé candles into Irish party centerpieces!

1. Paint plain pillar candles with shamrocks, words or Celtic knots. If you can’t draw it by hand, use the transfer method with tissue or trace the pattern from paper. To simply add a bit of green, try green stripes or polka dots.

2. Sprinkle green confetti around your candles. Festive St. Patrick Day shapes would be even better.

3. Wrap ribbons around your candles and secure them with straight pins. Look for leprechauns, green hearts, shamrocks, or just grab some pretty green ribbon.

4. Another easy transfer method involves temporary tattoos. See a beautiful example from Richella at Imparting Grace.

5. Don’t forget to use a festive table cloth! It truly makes a difference and adds a fun backdrop to your candle display.

For more see: St. Patrick Day Candle Ideas

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I know knitting a dress sounds like a major time commitment. And that’s before I even tell you that this particular dress, the Sixth Ave Skater Dress by Briana Luppino, is worked in light fingering weight yarn.

But would you just take a moment to look at it and tell me if it doesn’t look like it would be worth all the time you would spend knitting it? And it’s miles of stockinette stitch so it’s actually beginner friendly and a great semi-mindless knit you can take with you on your travels this summer and wear when it is done.

The dress is worked from the top down with tank straps, a scoop neck, waist shaping and a flowy skirt for a fun and comfortable fit.

The pattern has 10 sizes, with finished bust measurements ranging from 28 to 64 inches, or 71.5 to 163 cm. The sample shown was worked with 4 inches/10 cm of negative ease at the bust, and the designer says most people like between 2 and 6 inches/5 to 15 cm of negative ease in the bust and around 10 inches/25.4 cm positive ease in the hips.

(To refresh your memory, negative ease means the measurement of the garment is smaller than your actual body measurement, while positive ease is bigger than your body.)

To pick a size you’d work from the bust measurement because you can always add more or fewer decreases as you need to get your desired fit at the waist and hips. And because it’s worked from the top down you can try it on as often as you like to make sure it’s the perfect fit.

The I-cord edgings give the dress a super casual feel, and I think this would be a great one to add to your summer rotation. (Yes, even with a wool blend yarn.)

You can see lots of cute finished versions and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself on Ravelry.

[Photo: Briana Luppino]

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