The Ultimate Bees Wax And Coconut Oil Candle

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Candles are a great way to create a warm and cozy atmosphere in your home, and making your own candles can be a fun and rewarding DIY project. This tutorial showcases a unique combination of two popular ingredients used in candle making – beeswax and coconut oil. Beeswax is known for its natural honey scent and the warm glow it produces, while coconut oil is prized for its moisturizing and skin-nourishing properties.

Using these two ingredients, you can create a beautifully scented and long-lasting candle that is also good for your skin. The tutorial provides a step-by-step guide with detailed photos to help even those new to candle making create a stunning finished product. The tutorial includes information on how to choose the right wicks and containers for your candle, as well as tips on how to pour and cool the wax and oil mixture.

In addition to the natural benefits of the ingredients used, making your own candles allows you to customize the scent and look of your candle to suit your personal preferences. You can experiment with different essential oils or fragrances to create a scent that is uniquely your own. The tutorial also provides tips on how to add decorative touches to your candle, such as dried flowers or herbs, to make it even more personalized.

DIY Coconut oil ad Bees Wax Candles.

If you want to feel personally attacked by a collection of knitting and crochet patterns as I was, check out the “90s Mod Inspired” pattern lookbook from Yarnspirations.

It’s actually a great collection of patterns for folks who want to stitch up that Y2K look again (or for the first time). There’s an oversized, striped grandpa cardigan! A (crocheted) plaid messenger bag! A boxy argyle vest, and a rolled hem sweater the likes of which I bought in a store in the ’90s and knit a replica of later.

There’s also a section of “Prep School” patterns (think “Clueless,” they’re even called things like “As if” and “Betty”) including a granny square tie and crocheted wrap skirt, and a knit cabled pullover, beret and cardigan with blocky stripes. Other sections include casual collegiate, punk and mod, and academia.

Some of the patterns repeat among the sections but there’s a nice selection for people who want a little throwback for their back to school and fall wardrobes.

Since I had this sweater, we’ll take a closer look at the Caron Cropped Stripy Sweater. The one I knit from a pattern of my own devising in the mid ’00s was tonal blues, but this one calls for two colorways of Colorama Haze, a fuzzy self-striping worsted weight yarn.

The pattern comes in six sizes, with chest measurements ranging from 39 to 60 inches (that’s 99 to 152.5 cm). Clearly that’s a lot of ease at the lower sizes, since the smallest size is meant to fit an actual chest measurement from 28-34 inches, or 71-86.5 cm.

The sweater is a modified drop shoulder worked flat in pieces and seamed. That means the stripes probably won’t match around the body but it’s still a classic look. This one does have ribbing at the neckline, where the original sweater I owned and my re-creation had rolled hems throughout, but you can do it either way depending on your preference.

Do any of these projects remind you of clothes you might have worn or knit in the past? I’d love to hear about it!

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