Nicole from Canada! She decided on a water bottle sling kit because she does not have a sewing mechine and dark and light blue for her colors. I am sending it off tomorrow morning and it will hopefully get to her in the next week or so. I hope she likes it and gets a lot of use out of it.

Alright, so it’s been two weeks so here is a new crafty leftover pattern for you. It just takes a few scraps of sturdy fabric, a button, and some thread! Not too bad at all. It’s a really simple pattern and takes full advantage of the zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine.

And here are a few pictures of the one I made.

I hope you like this pattern and let me know if there are any silly mistakes like spelling errors or things that just don’t make sense.

And the contest! Just post a comment before the next pattern is up (two weeks from yesterday) and you will be entered to win a drawing for a kit. I have decided that you get to pick the colors too, or at least tell me what colors you realllly don’t like and also if you want a kit for the current project or if you have already made it, the next project. All kits include enough material to make at least one and if you are luck two of the pattern you choose and a print off of the pattern as well.

If you send me a picture of a finished project from any of my patterns you automatically get a special package full of goodies, unless you received the materials in a kit from one of the contests.

This weeks winner has been notified and I am waiting to hear back to her so I will let you know the first name of the winner and what she chose to receive as soon as I find out.

On a more boring note, just a little disclaimer, please feel free to make as many copies of my patterns as you wish, give them to your friends, give them to the world, but and this is a big but, do not claim them as your own or re-publish them with out written permission from me and do not sell the patterns or items made from the patterns for money or trade.

Well that’s all for tonight, happy crafting!

Here is the first crafty leftover pattern that I made this summer, I made it with two half skiens of yarn in contrasting colors, worsted weight. It knits up pretty fast.

Because I do not have hosting where you can download pdf files, I just made the patterns into jpgs so you can see them. Just click on the picture to open it in it’s own window to print it, or email me through the “e-mail” me in the side bar link and I can send you the compressed pdf file so that way the text and images are better quality. This is a work in progress, and things will be a little shaky at first, but they will get better. I will try to get it so that way you can just click a link to download the compressed pdf file.

I was going to have it so that way everyone who completes the pattern and posts their pictures to the flickr group will be entered in a drawing for a prize, but I’ve decided, that instead everyone who posts a comment before the next pattern is posted will be entered in a drawing for the prize and everyone who completes the pattern and posts a picture on the flickr group before the next pattern is posted will get a prize.

So just to make it more clear:
If you post a comment on this pattern in the next two weeks, you will be entered in a drawing for a pattern kit (enough yarn in two colors to make the pattern plus a printed copy of the pattern).
If you make the pattern and post a picture to the flickr group in the next two weeks you will get a prize of gradiose proportions, but that is a suprise prize.

These prizes are only for this two week period and this pattern only, they will change when the next pattern is posted.

Have fun crafting with those delicious yarn left overs!

All summer long I have been trying to be very resourceful as far as projects to keep me occupied goes. I have spent as little as possible and have just used what I have on hand (which is too much) and things from other projects that I have done for my art classes at the University (I’m a painting major there). I have found that there is a complete lack of books/patterns for making things out of small bits of this and that and there is also a lack of contemporary uncomplicated patterns for the home. The best I have found so far is Mason-Dixon Knitting, which is a great book, but it only deals with knitting. What about all the great things you can make out of left over fabric and paper and buttons?

Main point: I am going to post a new pattern bi-monthly that is made out of leftovers from other projects and more often than not for the home, but there will be a few things that can be worn or used outside. It should be fun and all the patterns will be free! And on top of that there will be a flickr group set up so you can post pictures of what your finished project looks like and and and there will be prizes! Everyone likes free stuff right? Well the way it will work out is everyone who finishes the pattern and posts a picture to the flickr group before the next pattern is posted will have their name entered into a drawing for the prize. The prizes will range from skiens of yarn to buttons to books, it will at least loosely corrolate to what the project is. I will post what the prize is when the pattern is posted.

So now that all the guidelines are set up I will have to post a pattern and think up a prize, but that will happen Tuesday when I have internet access again.

Check back soon! Happy Crafting!