Uplifting Words

Our newest Private Label yarn arrived during the Fall Yarn Crawl. The colorway names are one word each and they were taken from quotes I found inspiring and uplifting. Here are the colorways and their names...

Accomplish

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln

Ambition

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose. - Frank Tyger

Believe

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. -Roy T. Bennett

Confidence

Without self-confidence, we are as babes in the cradle -Virginia Woolf

Courage

Forgot to get a pic before it sold out!

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear - Mark Twain

Goals

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. -Les Brown

Gratitude

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. -Henri Frederic Amiel

Inspiration

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

Kindness

There's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. -Scott Adams

Mindfulness

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment. -Nhat Hanh

Nurture

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heros. -Benjamin Disraeli

Passion

Forgot to get a photo before this one sold out!

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams. -Donovan Bailey

Perserverance

Perserverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th -Julie Andrews

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Karen Chemo Cap 5th Anniversary Makeover

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Copilot Remix

Years ago I found the Copilot Cowl by Dominique Trad on Ravelry and it had two of my ABSOLUTE favorite things...garter stitch and yarn overs! I cast one on for a trip I was taking and knit it while I was traveling. It was the perfect project to keep my attention, but I didn't need to take the pattern out constantly. After knitting one, I noticed that the length of it was just too long for my liking, I wanted it to be a simple, single-wrap cowl. I reworked it a little bit and it is my go-to when I have a skein of fingering weight yarn (especially if it is a singly-ply!!) Copilot Remix Materials: 1 skein 100g/440 fingering weight yarn (if your skein is a little more or a little less, no problem, I put in weights so you can use up all your yarn and not play yarn chicken!) US6/4mm 24" circular knitting needles Stitch...

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