World Card Making Day - This Saturday!

The first Saturday of October marks World Card Making Day. That day this year is this coming Saturday, October 4, 2008. In recognition of this day, I've compiled a few urls to help you celebrate.

I plan on making a couple of cards this weekend for christmas or maybe a 'just because' card. (I haven't decided yet). I'll post some of the cards that I make here... so look for them soon (in a couple of weeks). In the meantime, enjoy spending time with your crafting friends, make some cards, and make someone's day by giving them a homemade card.

While you're at it, you can make envelopes too. Below is a link for Envelope Glue (maybe it'll taste better than the normal envelopes).


Official World Card Making Day website.
http://www.worldcardmakingday.com/

Envelope Glue Recipe
http://www.craftbits.com/viewProject.do?projectID=574#rate

Card Making Crafts
http://www.craftbits.com/viewCategory.do?categoryID=PAC#Card%20Making

Pop-up Lotus Card
http://zakkalife.blogspot.com/2008/09/pop-up-lotus-card.html

Joann's Fabrics Card Making Projects
http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat13878

Michaels Card Making Projects
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectlist?categoryid=104

Simple Pop-up Cards
http://robertsabuda.com/popmakesimple.asp

Simple Knitting Loom Scarf

With Christmas time only a couple of months away, what better time to start making your homemade gifts whether it be for Christmas or for birthday, or just because.

This is a simple project that will be well appreciated during the cold winter months. The pattern is from the Knifty Knitters Assorted Looms book. I'm using the long pink loom for this scarf & will am holding 2 yarns thru out the project. You can also make the scarf by holding only one yarn. 2 yarns gives a thicker, warmer scarf, whereas the 1 yarn is a nice light scarf.

First start by tying down the yarn to the holding peg onto the side of the knitting loom. Leave a nice long tail (maybe 12 to 18 inches) to crochet the beginning of the scarf off (it just looks cleaner that way).

Next, cast on, starting by skipping the first pairless peg and going back and forth till you reach the desired width of the scarf (Remember that this is stretched out a bit as it is). Cast onto an even number of pegs.

Next is the tricky part, turning. Once you've reached the desired width you will turn. You're going to follow the zig-zag pattern from the previous cast on. This means that the turning peg will only have one cast on. This will be true each time you turn.

Pull over the bottom cast on, above the peg on each peg with 2 cast ons. (And you're knitting, isn't it great?) Once you've pulled over all the pegs, turn and cast on again, then knit again. You'll repeat this til you've reached the desired length for the scarf.

Once you've reached the length, you're ready to finish off the scarf and clean up the ends. Here you'll need a crochet hook, use one possibly a bit bigger than the yarn recommendation, or be prepared to crochet somewhat loose.

First you should crochet off from the loom. To do this, you'll unhook the yarn in the first peg and put it on the crochet hook. Next, remove the yarn on the next peg, and place it onto the crochet hook, and pull it thru the first loop in the crochet hook. Continue thru til you're at the end, then cut the yarn and pull the tail thru the last loop on the crochet hook.

For the tail that was left in the beginning you're going to use a single crochet along the edge. First pull a part of the tail thru the first loop (nearest the tail). Then, single crochet along the end.

Here's one that I finished a couple of weeks ago.

That's it. Enjoy your scarf, or enjoy giving your scarf away. :-)

Chuck is on Monday 8/7c on NBC

Chuck will start it's second season this Monday on NBC at 8/7c.

It'll conflict with The Sarah Connor Chronicles... good thing you can watch either show on hulu.com. :-)

More on that on a later post.