Super Bulky Knit Scarf

I just completed my first ever knitting project!

While we were home in Maine we went to Mardens. Mardens is this fantastic surplus and salvage place where you can get the best things for super cheap. Their tagline is, “You should have bought it when you saw it at Mardens”. That is definitely true, Jeff is still upset about the air hokey table we let get away. Anyway, I picked up a bunch of beautiful Lion Brand yarn and needles. Because I only know the knit stitch I needed to make a simple project for myself.

Ingredients for this scarf:

2 hanks of Lion Brand Big Prints in Grand Canyon
Size 35 knitting needles
Size Q crochet hook – for casting off and attaching the fringe

Recipe:

• Fringe – Cut 14 Strands of yarn, 16 inches long each, before starting scarf

• Scarf – Cast on 7 stitches.Knit every row until scarf is ~ 2 yards long.Single crochet cast off.

• Finishing – Attach fringe on both ends of scarf. Take one 16” strand and fold it in half, use crochet hook to draw folded yarn though the scarf. Pull ends of fringe through loop. Pull to tighten

Stamp Kissing

I recently took an Amuse Stamp card making class. Spark Craft Studio offers these classes for every holiday, we made the cutest Valentines day cards. I love taking these classes! The instructor Renee is awesome and the designs are unbelievably creative. For some reason I just have a hard time being creative with papercraft stuff so classes like this really inspire me.

Renee taught a new technique called stamp kissing. Its really easy and comes out beautifully. Take a solid stamp, one without a lot of detail, stamp it with pigment ink. Then take a patterned stamp and stamp it into the solid stamp. The patterned stamp removes ink from the solid stamp and you are left with the negative of your pattern on your solid stamp. Then take the kissed solid stamp and stamp onto cardstock.

I got so excited by all the ideas I garnered from stamping class that I just had to share them with my Mom and Grammie. So, I made up three card designs: one with the stamp kissing technique, one using polymer clay fruit that we made after Thanksgiving, and one that had a bunny butt stamp that I had been dying to use.

We had a ball! Here are Mom and Grammie in action!

Crafting for the Weekend!

"Everybody's working for the weekend." Well not me I was Crafting for the weekend!

We went home to my parents house in Maine this weekend. But before I could go I had to get some crafting done. My mothers co-worker had given me her broken ankle bracelet to fix before the wedding and I had not done it yet. She had lost some of the beads so I had to re-string with a new pattern and it came out beautifully. With Jodi's done I had to make mom's other co-worker "Aunt" Brenda something special. I made her this beautiful semi-lariat necklace with gold chain and a faceted smokey quartz briolette.

Aunt Brenda had been doing some crafting of her own and had made Jeff and I the most beautiful knit socks. She picked out the perfect colors for us, purple variegated for me and an antique blue for Jeff. They are all warm and snuggly. I can't imagine the time she put into them, 8 hours per sock. I am not sure anyone is worth 16 hours for a pair of socks!