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Win A $100 Gift Voucher To Buy Craft Supplies

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Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card to Stock Up on Craft Supplies! 

Attention, CraftGossip.com readers! We’re thrilled to announce an exciting giveaway where you can win a $100 Amazon gift card to fuel your crafting passion. Whether you’re into knitting, crochet, scrapbooking, or DIY projects, this is your chance to load up on all the supplies you need!

How to Enter:

  • Subscribe to Our Newsletter: Simply sign up for the CraftGossip newsletter here. If you’re already subscribed, you’re automatically entered!
  • Bonus Entry: For an extra chance to win, comment below and tell us what you would buy with your $100 Amazon gift card.

Terms and Conditions:

  • Open Worldwide: This giveaway is open to craft enthusiasts around the globe!
  • Random Draw: The winner will be randomly selected from our newsletter subscribers.
  • Entry Deadline: The competition closes on October 30th 2024.
  • Winner Announcement: We’ll announce the lucky winner on  1st of the Month . Stay tuned!

September Winner Alice, J. Thornton We have sent you an email.  

Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to stock up on your favorite craft supplies. Subscribe now and start dreaming about your next big project! ?

Good luck, and happy crafting!

Comments

  3. With the $100 I would buy some Christmas supplies to do wreaths and maybe some yarn, ribbon. Good Luck to All!

  4. I would buy craft kits and supplies to make things with my granddaughters. The oldest loves to make all kinds of things and I’m getting ready to teach her to sew.

  6. If I won, I would purchase card making supplies – especially ink refills. Thank you for this opportunity!

  12. I would buy sublimation blanks & beadable keyrings thanks for the opportunity to win
    Rochelle

  15. Our woman’s club does a lot of outreach projects and would totally rock a $100 donation!

  18. I would purchase some yarn and other craft supplies for crafts I am interested in such as paint pouring, resin crafts and weaving. Thank you so much for this contest and your newsletters!
    Good luck everyone and happy crafting!

  19. My husband just passed away and I would like to start scrapbooking, to keep his memory alive. It’s the one craft I haven’t done yet, and I feel this is the perfect time to start.

  20. Hello. If I won the gift card, I would supply myself with journaling and scrapbooking because I’m 68 years old and need medication, prompts, and encouragement to get started on telling “my story”. I have boxes and boxes of photos and memories I would like to share with my kids in a creative way. I want to tell MY story as to WHO I am and what iv done and where iv been so that like so many others before me, my story doesn’t get lost. I have my mother’s journals also I’d like to share.

  22. I will definitely buy sewing supplies…every time I decide I want to make something new, there is always something else I need to complete it and have to put the project off until I have everything needed

  24. I would buy fabric, patterns and accessories to make things with and for my grandchildren. The six-year-old is learning to sew by hand right now.

  26. My husband and I would definitely get blacksmithing tools. Metal work and glass blowing are our new hobbies

  27. I would buy counted cross stitch fabric and yarn to make things for little granddaughter to get her inspired to follow in mine and her mommy’s creative shoes.

  28. I purchase hard to find yarns and make items to help me survive as a retired “have to still work” senior. I live Craftgossip.com. Bern a subscriber for at least 10 years maybe more. Keep up the great work. P.S. I love that you’re adding pictures again to the newsletter. ?

  29. I would buy some resin moulds and colours. My sister is giving me some resin products, but I would love to make items as gifts.

  31. Wow what a amazing price to win. I think i would bye fabric and felt. To make stuffed animals and Christmas projects.

Have you read?

Knit a Leopard Print Shawl and Learn about Yarn Substitution

When I was looking around for free knitting patterns to share recently, I came across this fun leopard print wrap from Yarnspirations. 

This fun bulky wrap gives you tons of practice with instarsia and makes a bold statement while keeping you warm. It’s rated for intermediate knitters and the design is charted but pretty easy to follow. And it’s only 50 rows and worked in bulky yarn, so it wouldn’t even take that long to knit. (You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.)

So what’s the problem? The yarn that the pattern calls for has been discontinued, and it’s not a yarn that a substitute for immediately springs to mind. 

The original yarn was Patons Alpaca Blend, a single ply bulky yarn that was a combination of acrylic, superwash wool, nylon and alpaca. 

My first thought was Lion Brand Hue + Me, which is an acrylic and wool blend, with two plies instead of a single. It looks like it has the colors you would need to make this fun shawl. 

But as I was thinking about it, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce you to YarnSub if you don’t already know about it. This website is a giant database of yarn that can consider the qualities of the yarn you want to substitute and offer potential substitutions. 

It’s not only thinking about yarn weight, like I was, but also fiber content, number of plies, gauge and even the difference in yardage between one ball and another. It even looks at the price and can be filtered by your price range or preferences about fiber content (if, say, you’re sensitive or allergic to wool, for example, or don’t want to you acrylic). 

When I plugged in Alpaca Blend, it gave me a lot of different options, though many of them were self-striping or multicolored, which wouldn’t work for this project, and I don’t see a way to filter for solid colors only. 

Still, it’s a good tool to give you some ideas you might not know about or might have forgotten about, and it tells you how the new yarn is similar to the old one and how it differs, allowing you to make smarter choices when substituting yarns. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]