Monday, May 5, 2014

Making a Come Back!

Mason Jars are making a come back. It's an all American product after all. Anyone who knows me well knows that I try to buy as much as I can that is American made - but that can be very hard.

While doing searches for new things to make I found that many people are using mason jars as drinking glasses and that many people use cozies with them. I thought that would be a great thing to make for the upcoming farmers market in Swissvale. I mean what is more farm related than the mason jar.

So here is the process I have went through for this project.

Donna and I went to see Mom on Easter and I know she has a lot of canning jars so I brought some home and washed them up.


Then I started to make the cozies. I didn't want the cozies to have any seams so I am knitting these on double pointed needles.




I am using cotton and wool yarn for these cozies. Notice what the Lily Sugar' n Cream yarn label says: 100% USA Grown Cotton!


Here are two finished cozies in cotton yarn.


Now for the wool cozy I used local yarn from Underhill Farm in Hollidaysburg, PA.


Here is the finished cozy with the wool yarn.


The Mason Jar cozy will be an item of the week during the Swissvale Farmers Market. The market will be held every Saturday from 9a - 1p beginning in June.