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Let’s have more Christmas in July

Let’s have some more fun with Christmas in July!

Carrying on from last week’s enthusiasm about Knitting for Christmas in July, I decided to offer kits for the Bitty Beady Christmas Tree since I was getting requests to give knitters a jump-start in conveniently getting the yarn and beads from one source.

Bitty Beady Christmas Tree gift bag decoration
Bitty Beady Christmas Tree gift bag decoration

So now you can get Materials Kits for Bitty Beady Christmas Tree starting at just $3.95. There are several color options for yarn and beads that mix-and-match for appealing to a range of traditional, vintage and modern schemes.

You’ll get all the materials you need to make one Bitty Beady Christmas Tree. NOTE: Pattern not included. Please purchase downloadable e-Pattern separately.

Besides your choice of yarn and bead colors, a floss threader is included IF you want to string your own beads. OR you can purchase the upgrade option to get the beads already strung on the yarn ready to start knitting right away!

You may also purchase a coordinating greeting card with envelope. This makes a nice gift enclosure to go along with either giving the kit itself, or with your completed bitty tree.

Even if you are not interested in a kit, you can purchase the pattern individually and use small amounts of glitzy yarn you have on hand, e.g. metallic yarn, or yarn that has been plied with beads and you just let the beads fall where they may. Want to go smaller (or larger): Other ideas and inspiration for variations on the Bitty Beady Christmas Tree.

Let’s enjoy small projects like Bitty Beady Christmas Tree while the weather is hot-hot-hot. It’s not too early to start getting ready for Winter holidays now, especially if you are like me and the months are just flying by. Where-oh-where did over half the summer already go!

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Loganberry Shawl Kit Giveaway at Mountain Colors 20th Anniversary Celebration

Mountain Colors is having a 20th Anniversary Celebration and the Kit to make my Loganberry Shawl is the GRAND PRIZE at the end of the month. How exciting and YOU could win it! There are giveaways throughout the month as well. So don’t wait to enter now …

I designed the Loganberry Crescent Shawl especially for Mountain Colors 20th Anniversary in their Retro color Loganberry. Inspired by the luscious colors in this yarn, I feature a cabled lace stitch pattern that suggests the slightly oblong shape and seeds of the loganberry. The short-rowed body of the shawl is an easy, very lacy one-row stitch pattern that works up in a jiffy.

Loganberry in Mountain Colors new cashmere/silk yarn called Louisa

Even more exciting is that the shawl shown here (and the kit that you could win to make it!) is made in the brand new Mountain Colors cashmere/silk yarn called Louisa.

I wish everyone good luck in winning. But you won’t have a chance unless you join in the Mountain Colors 20th Anniversary Celebration now.

Even  if you don’t win, you can’t lose with the fabulous yarns and dyed colors that Diana and Leslie produce for Mountain Colors. I hope you check out their yarns at your favorite local yarn shop or online source. And of course, be sure to ask for HeartStrings patterns such as the Loganberry Shawl there, too.

HeartStrings knitting pattern Loganberry Shawl

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Happy Memorial Day Sale on Red, White and Blue

Please join with me in remembering our friends, family, and unsung heroes who have, and continue to serve to keep our country free.

Mini Lace and Beaded Flag
Mini Lace and Beaded Flag

So I want to give you inspiration and an excuse to knit with red, white and blue. For this Memorial Day weekend only, you can use Coupon Code INMEMORYOF to get 20% off ANY red-white-blue pdf e-Pattern at the HeartStrings Downloadable Patterns store at Shopatron. Valid May 25 through May 28, 2012.

You can follow these links to find out more about each pattern at the HeartStringsFiberArts.com website:

OR, just go to the Patriotic section of the pdf-Holidays and Special Occasion Shopatron catalog to see them all.

p.s. Please be safe and enjoy the long weekend!

 

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Treasure Hunt for a Gentle Breezes Stole Kit prize

Are you up for a little game and chance to win yarn and pattern for my Gentle Breezes Stole? There’s a Treasure Hunt going on at the Sandrasingh.com Blog. Please help Sandra celebrate her 7th anniversary!

Answer a few easy questions based on your hunt through the HeartStrings pattern collections at the Sandrasingh.com website store. Then email your answers to Sandra to be entered to win the generous prize (details about the giveaway are here). Hurry, the cut-off date is next Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

Gentle Breezes Stole
Gentle Breezes Stole

I designed Gentle Breezes for Sandrasingh.com in their exclusive Lace yarn. If you have not seen or knit with this yarn before, I think you will really like it.

Have fun playing and good luck on winning!

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Jackie and the Beanstalk – get free magic seeds

Jackie and the Beanstalk Seed Packets. Read on for an offer, good April 15 – 30, 2012 or while seeds last.

Purple Hyacinth Bean

I love the freshness of Springtime and the opportunities to play in my garden before the heat of summer sets in. This is a time to mulch old friends (meaning my plants, lol), fertilize the lawn and plant new seeds. Almost every year I try a new thing or two.

And so I’d like to offer you a packet of my special Jackie and the Beanstalk magic seeds. Actually, they are purple hyacinth bean. But I didn’t know their name during the time I first grew the largest, most beautiful flowering vines from just a few seeds. Since I did not know what I was growing when I planted the seeds (other than I recalled it was some kind of flowering vine), I did not have any special care instructions to go by. I just used common sense to keep plants happy, lol. But now that I know the name, I’ve found references in many places. There is a good one at The Gardener’s Network.

purple hyacinth bean vine seeds and pods
purple hyacinth bean vine seeds and pods

To receive a free packet of real seed pods with your order of any Kits or Yarn products in the HeartStrings catalogs at Shopatron, just enter the words “Jackie and the Beanstalk Seeds” in the comments field of your Shopatron order. One gift packet per customer. Offer is good April 15 – 30, 2012 or while seeds last.

Capture the magic. Happy spring planting! Happy all-year-long knitting!

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