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I Love Yarn Day 2013… Give Away!

October 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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Today is I Love Yarn Day… Let’s celebrate!  In honor of I Love Yarn Day and because it is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month... I am Giving Away one of my Amazing Grace Headbands… In PINK with sequins!!!!

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Amazing Grace Headband Give-Away…

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Are you ready for some fun??  Here is how you enter…

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Question:

What is your favorite type of yarn and What color do you love??

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How To Enter:

Hop over to my Facebook page and  Like my Facebook Page, Write your answer and your Corresponding Number (The next number following entry before you) in the comment section of the post ” I Love Yarn Day-Breast Cancer Awareness…”

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Here Are The Rules:

To qualify all entries must be made on my Facebook page by midnight PST with the answer in the correct post.  You will need to answer all 4 parts of the entry… 1:What type of yarn is your favorite, 2:the color you love and 3: your corresponding number. 4:AND  Like my Facebook Page.

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Good Luck and let’s have some fun!

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Elena

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Traveling Crochet….

September 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Yesterday we headed out on our 2 1/2 hour journey through the mountain roads to our daughters Varsity Volleyball Game… Oh what fun!!!  Hmmm… I needed a project to take for the road trip… I have been making so many Amazing Grace Hats… I needed something new!!!  I purchased some self striping yarn recently and wanted to use it… so this is what I started…

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Chevron Scarf…

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Love the color changes…

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I used DROPS delight 13, it’s a fingering weight wool mix… I used a G Hook in a Single Crochet Chevron pattern… This will be 6″ wide and the length still to be determined… I think it will take 2-3 balls of this gorgeous yarn.. I will update when it is finished.. The yarn is  $4.89 US per skein and they do flat rate shipping… so I ordered several skeins… Love it…

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Also using this yarn… From last week’s 2nd place Fan Favorite Slouch Beanie... If you remember my last post.. My 17-year-old wanted this hat… This inspired me to order this yarn originally and make it… Here is a picture of the finished hat using DROPS Delight 10…

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DROPS Design Slouch Beanie…

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My daughter loved her new hat… And.. Yes,,, They won their Volleyball Game… 3 hours of a very closely matched game and we were headed back home…

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So here is to Road Trip Projects, Self Striping Yarn and 17-year-old daughters!.

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Elena

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Charity Crochet Hat…

September 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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Recently I joined a new venture… Some of my crochet friends and I have put together a Charity Group – Elk Studio -From the Heart!  Guess who came up this great idea??  Yep, my very good friend Kathy at Elk Studio Handcrafted Crochet Designs!  We are all going to crochet projects each month for a designated charity… Our first donation for October will be headed to Crochet for Cancer!

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As some of you know, Six years ago I lost my very best friend to Breast Cancer...  So in honor of Sandra Kay Gilb… I have designed my next free pattern.  This pattern will be available later this week!  I worked on it all weekend, testing yarns, hooks and different stitches!  I am so excited how it turned out!   Tell me what you think!!!

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Using different hooks and yarn weights you can see the difference in the hats!

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These hats are all the same yarn and same hook…

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These are double strand, larger hook…

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Double strand,  Caron Simply Soft Yarn...

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I will be donating all the hats I make using this pattern over the next couple weeks… Hopefully 15-20 Hats…  After that, Staring October… To celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month… Each hat in this pattern sold (both at Alpine Originals and Etsy) I will donate 1.00 to Breast Cancer Research…  If you love this pattern and make it… I hope you will use it to help someone with cancer…

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So here is to new Free Patterns,  Sandy and Charity!

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Elena

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