Enter to Win a Jordana Paige Bag Full of Goodies

Jordana Paige is giving away a pink Knitter’s Satchel full of skin care goodies from Alouette in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Kellie Judson of Alouette is also giving 40 percent of her sales this month to breast cancer research, so if that’s a brand you use or are interested in, go check it out for a good cause.

The prize pack includes the bag, a tube of Body Souffle and the company’s popular Restorative Enzyme Peel. To enter, visit the website linked above. Comment on that blog post (not here) and you can also join mailing lists or like Facebook pages for additional entries. Entries close next Monday, Oct. 28, and the winner will be selected the next day.

Jordana Paige also donates 10 percent of proceeds from sales of the pink Knitter’s Satchel to breast cancer charities year round, so if you’re in the market for a knitting bag, be sure to check it out.

[Photo via Jordana Paige.]

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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.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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