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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.

 

Comments

  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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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.