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Fun and Easy Granny Square Coffee Cup Cozy

coffe cup cozy

Here is today’s project: A Fun and Easy Granny Square Coffee Cup Cozy

This is a fun and easy Granny square coffee cup cozy.   If you’re like me you probably have tons of partially used skeins of yarn.  I just can’t seem to throw out even small amounts of yarn out.  I know if I just think a little I can come up with ways to use these small scraps of yarn and make something beautiful.   For many of you January is one of the coldest months of the year.  I must admit I live in a suburb of San Diego, California and we are blessed with pretty awesome weather year round.  However for those of you not so fortunate I wanted to come up with a project that uses up your yarn scraps.  I’ve used  colorful spring colors to make winter more bearable.    This is what I came up with a fun and easy Granny Square coffee cup cozy.   It’s a great way to use up your scraps. Plus it had to be pretty enough to give away as a gift.  (Teachers day,   Mother’s Day, etc.).  You can choose your own colors if you prefer.  I can just imagine this with pretty shades or orange and maybe a yellow center.

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Announcing Lovie Book Giveaway Winners!

Animal Lovie Books

Knit and Crochet Lovie Books

First I would like to thank everyone who participated in this giveaway.  It was really great to see how many of you liked the content of both books. Today I want to announce the 3 winners.  Each will have a choice of either the Knit Animal Lovies book or the Crochet Animal Lovie Blankets book.    All 3 winners have been notified at the email they used to sign up to become members of my blog.  These giveaways are my way of saying thank you to everyone who has supported me and shown that extra love of becoming a blog member.    Being a member is free and it guarantees you will be kept up to date on new posts, giveaways, online courses  and lots of great projects.

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Win Michael’s Gift Card and other prizes – Details Below

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Michaels’ Gift Card Giveaway Details:

Christmas is just around the corner and before we know it is will be here.   I wanted to share my love of creativity  by doing a gift card giveaway.   Michaels is a store that I really enjoy shopping in and seems to be pretty popular in crafting circles.   This giveaway is NOT sponsored by Michaels but it is something that I want to do for my blog members.    First and Second place prizes are open to anyone in the USA.    The third prize of Ravelry patterns is open worldwide.    The contest will be open until December 15th.  A winners will be chosen on December 16th and will have 3 days to claim their prize.

1st prize – $50 Gift Card to Michaels stores 

2nd prize  –  $15 Gift Card to Michaels stores 

                                                                                               3rd Prize – any 2 patterns from my Ravelry store.  (You choose).

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Crochet Santa Hat

Santa Hat

Crochet Santa Hat

I tried something different on my YouTube channel today.  It’s hard to believe that we are now into the Christmas season.  OK, let’s be honest tomorrow is Thanksgiving but after tomorrow it will be here…in full bloom:  Christmas season.   I realize that even saying Christmas is no longer politically correct for many.  Things like Winter Holidays seems to be what is popular.   In my home we celebrate Christmas and so do many of my friends.   That includes shopping for Christmas tree.  Bringing our our ornaments and decorations.   Most of the people in my neighborhood will put up Christmas lights on their homes and decorate their lawns.

I will probably be invited to go Christmas caroling although to be on the safe side I try not to sing.  Singing is not my forte.   I wanted to make something fun to wear during the season.  I came up with this fun and cute Santa Hat with buckle.   I have sized it for various sizes including children and adults.   I am doing something a little different with this video.  I am making it available for purchase on my channel.   I wanted to make it something that is affordable.  This is a step-by-step tutorial like most of my other videos.  It runs for about 45 minutes.   What I like about it is that it uses basic stitches and techniques.   As much as I would love to continue providing all free videos I need to start making some more income to be able to pay my bills and expenses which include the expenses for running the channel and this blog.   It takes many hours for each new video which doesn’t even include creating the pattern.  Making the item and having it tested.  Then there is the filming and video editing.   A half hour video can take up to 40 hours to create.   I hope you will support me in this endeavor.  I realize that money might be tight.  This is why there are still over 610 free videos available on my channel.   Those will continue to be free.  I will also continue to upload other free videos.  The end of the year is here and expenses are high.  Thanks for understanding and your support.

XOXO,

Yolanda

To purchase the video please go to my YouTube Channel and click on recent uploads:   http://  www.youtube.com/user/yolandasotolopez

 

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Online Courses coming soon!

I can’t believe it’s actually happening.  Thanks to everyones support and encouragement I have taken a giant leap.  (OK, it’s giant for me)  As many of you may know I’m not exactly what you would call a “techy”.  As a matter of fact I really struggle with this aspect of sharing my content with everyone.  You see I don’t come from a technology background and sometime I feel totally out of it.   There are times when I listen to people speaking about their sites and use terms like SEO traffic optimization, shopping-cart,  updates,  SSL, etc… to me it might as well be Greek.   I must admit that technology has always kinda scared me.

I don’t know if it’s part of getting older and being used to old school methods.  For example I still actually mail people letters.  Seriously, I love getting a letter in the mail.  Greeting cards are even better.  So, when technology has been a difficult transition.  However, you know what they say innovate or die.  I don’t want to die…… so I have done it.   I have joined the platform called “New Kajabi”    This has been a huge investment for me.   So far it seem easy enough for even me to use it.  What it will allow me to do is something that I have been working on for a very long time.  Create courses that are more detailed, better organized and easily accessible.  I have been searching for a platform that would allow me to do this and reach more people.  This is something that I am really excited about.   This is how it will work:  (OK, this is how I want it to work, fingers crossed.)   I create courses and projects you have requested and upload them to the platform.   I can organize them as single projects of complete courses with several modules.   The modules can include written patterns,  video tutorials,  user feedback, and tons of other great features such as subscriptions/memberships.

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