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Are You a Crafty College Student? Apply Fast!

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jimmy beans schoalrshipI was just cleaning out my e-mail and realized I hadn’t yet shared with you that the application period for the Beans for Brains scholarship from Jimmy Beans Wool closes on Sunday, March 31.

The scholarship, in its fourth year, is a merit-based scholarship of $3,200 and is awarded to five crafty students at accredited institutions of higher learning (undergrad or graduate). You don’t have to be currently attending school if you’re planning to enroll, say, in the fall.

To apply students must write an essay and create something knit, crocheted or sewn (or a combination) and send in a photo along with their application. Sewing is a new addition to the scholarship this year.

This is such a cool idea. One scholarship will go to someone local to the store, and one each will be awarded in the four geographical areas of the United States. If you apply, I’d love to hear about it!

Thanks, Jimmy Beans, for supporting craft and scholarship.

 

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  1. Oh wow. I received an honors transfer scholarship this year, but was disqualified because I changed universities. It was a big hit to my $ plans for the school year. And I’m past deadline for most other scholarships. (Last minute decisions are not a good idea when transferring to a university).

    I will definitely be applying for this! Wish I had known about it sooner, but I’ll whip up some kind of project before Sunday!

    Thanks for sharing! I never would have known something like this even existed.

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Stitch a Scarf with Dreamy Waves

As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells,  so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

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