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We're turning every donated Crown Royal bag into care packages for deployed American military soldiers around the world.

Wear your alcohol problem with pride! A Crown Royal face mask is the perfect way to say, "Hey, I like to party - but from 6 feet away for now." These masks are made from 100% cotton Crown Royal bags, pre-washed and ready to wear. The back material is t-shirt cotton as well - the perfect blend for maximum filtration. Each has been carefully tailored to fit the curves of your face. The gold metallic ear loops are made from a comfortable elastic, cut long and lightly tied so you can adjust as needed. Please note these are not thrown together haphazardly - they are created with love and take a significant amount of time to produce. I figure if you're going to wear something on your face in public, it might as well be gorgeous! --> FITMENT FEATURES COLORS FAST & FREE SHIPPING!

My sister and her husband spent Tuesday through Friday at my house, and we had a lot of fun - visiting, eating out, gambling, and quilting. ...

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If you're like me and have waaay too many Crown Royal bags lying around, this is a great project.

This is one of the projects I am working on right now. I'm taking these Crown Royal Bags and turning them into quilt blocks. I had a special request for a 108x108 quilt commissioned from these bags and denim. If you have not seen or felt one of these bags, they are made from flannel. Here's what I came up with--it will be like a trip around the world with alternating purple and denim blocks. Each row of denim will alternate light and dark. How do you like the finished quilt? Yup, I like my grid paper and my old fashioned #2 pencil. Nope, I don't have a computerized design program. I figured out how to break down the bags to get the maximum amount of usable fabric. First, I carefully cut a slit in the drawstring pocket channel and extract the gold cord then slice off the pocket. Slice off the serged edges: I squared up the front with the name at 4 inches wide (the maximum I could get above the curve), pieced on the back below the name to make a strip long enough to center the embroidered name. The side portion yielded exactly two 9.5" long pieces so that was the length I trimmed the center strip--ending up with a center strip 4 x 9.5. Then, I attached the bag side strips to the outer edges of the block making it a finished 7.5 x 9.5. I had just enough gold drawstring cord to frame the block 3/4 inch in from the edge. I just used a zig zag stitch to attach the braid. When they are assembled, there will be a nice gold frame 1/2 inch from the seam on the blocks. I like it! ~~~~~~~~ Oh, one more thing . . . I have a whole herd of elk on my quilting frame this morning . . .

I have briefly mentioned before the super secret birthday project that I've been working on for a gift for my brother David's birthday. And I figured that since I've given him his present that I can now share with all of you what Amazing Boyfriend and I made for my brother. ...TADAA!!! We made him a whiskey bottle lamp. Honestly, I think that my favorite part of this project was that ABF got really into it, helped me figure out the best way to put it all together, and helped me with some of the more difficult parts. It's been a project on my to-do list, and I'm excited that I had the perfect person to make it for. Wanna see how we did it? Supplies: large liquor bottle make-a-lamp kit lampshade fabric to cover lampshade modge podge filler (decorative sand) 3/8" diamond tip drill bit cordless drill hot glue gun I started this project by cleaning the bottle. I washed the inside out with dish soap and rinsed it a few times. I cleaned the outside of the bottle with rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball. Then I used hard coat Modge Podge to seal the labels to the bottle. (I didn't take pictures, but hopefully you know what I'm talking about.) While I was taking stuff over to my cousin's house for a garage sale, Amazing Boyfriend drilled a hole through the cap and secured the lamp bulb base through it using washers, gromets and other parts that we picked up from the hardware store. He even took pictures of the process all by himself! (Yes, I am very proud.) Drilling hole through the top of the cap. Finished drilling hole through the top of the cap. All the components: lamp base and switch, bottle cap, washer and nuts. The base of the lamp screwed together with the cap. Making sure that it all lines up right. The next step was drilling the hole in our bottle to put the cord through. Now this was the most challenging part of this project and was something that Amazing Boyfriend and I thoroughly researched before we started. After much debate (and yes, there was plenty of debate) we decided to try using a 3/8" diamond tip drill bit that I got from Home Depot. I was in charge of holding the whiskey bottle and spraying it with water, while ABF did the drilling. *note: when drilling a hole in any glass surface the key is using the proper drill bit, specifically for glass or tile, lots of patience and lubricant. In our case we used water, but there are other oil lubricants available for use. If you're not careful, you will crack the glass and have to start over with a new bottle.* After the hole is drilled, ABF fitted a rubber grommet inside the hole and thread the wire of the lamp kit through the bottle and out of the neck hole. The grommet is to secure the wire running through the bottle, protect the wire from the edges of the hole we drilled as well as making the hole tight so that the filling material doesn't come out. Once the wire is threaded through the bottle, I filled it with the decorative sand I bought. I chose a metallic copper decor sand because it reminded me of whiskey, but you can fill it with anything, small rocks, glass pebbles, etc. They have lots of options in the floral section of any craft store. Once the bottle is filled it's time to put the light together! Now for the lampshade, I stole took some purple velvet Crown Royal bags from my Dad's stash (he's saving them to have a quilt made out of them) to use on the lampshade. I found a lampshade on clearance at Jo-Ann's that already had the adhesive on the lampshade, I just had to add the fabric. I used my hot glue gun and the cording from the Crown Royal bags to add the detail to the lampshade. If you were making your own lamp there are many different lampshade options out there, just get creative. Once the lampshade was finished, I put it on the finished lamp and we were done. I have to admit the finished project was a lot cooler then I thought it would turn out and this is probably one of my favorite project ever. I also have a feeling that once everyone sees this I'm going to have a bunch of my guy friends begging me to make one for them (and their wives/girlfriends begging me not to.) As for my brother, who rolled his eyes when I told him I was making his birthday present, he LOVED it!!! He said that it's the coolest thing that he's ever owned and he never even guessed what we were going to make for him. P.S. Happy Birthday, David!!! I'm linking up to the following parties

Tutorial Crown Royal Coasters My nephew sent me some Crown Royal bags and asked me to make coasters. First I carefully cut the fabric from the bags. Next I cut a square from card stock as my "pattern". It is 4.5 inches (11.5cm) square. I first cut the plain fabric squares for the back of the coaster. Here are all the plain squares. I had some white terry cloth fabric (think towels) so I cut those into squares too, to ensure the coaster would be absorbant. Here are the white squares. Then I realized that my card stock pattern would not allow me to make sure the words "Crown Royal" were centred in my squares. I needed something I could see through. So I found a pink plastic bag and cut a 4.5 inch (11.5cm) square. Now I could see what I was cutting. Some of the bags were larger than others. I always got the words centred left to right, but sometimes the words were lower in the square because of the size of the bag. Here are all the Crown Royal squares. Now, time to stack for sewing. The Crown Royal square and the plain square are right sides together. Add the white square outside the plain square. When pinning, mark where you will leave an opening. This is to turn the coaster right side out. My green pins mark my opening. I started sewing at the bottom green pin. My seam was a scant 1/4 inch seam. And I sewed all the way 'round to the other green pin. Trim your corners. Turn right side out. This is an example of one of the Crown Royal squares where the words are lower than centre. It is because the bag was smaller than the others. Fold in the edges at the opening. Pin opening. Topstitch across the opening and all 'round the coaster. Ta da! All done.

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This is a guide about crafts using Crown Royal bags.Those beautiful purple cloth Crown Royal bags are perfect to use in many crafts.

So here is what you can do with a collection of Crown Royal bags. No this is not for me but rather was custom made for someone. It was a pretty daunting project and finally once I got going it was not so bad. One thing I really like is that the bags have a variation in color even though they are all new. All in all I really had fun making this.

This pattern is for an overlay mosaic crochet square that can be used in other types of projects, such as blankets, pillows, satchel bags, table mats, etc. Any yarn or hook will work, depending on the desired size of the finished square. I used yarn weight of 4 with a 5.5 hook, which creates a square of 13.5” x 13”. You will need 2 colors of yarn - one for the background and one for the crown. This is a great way to use up scraps! For projects using 2 colors, (one for the background & one for the featured design), you will need approximately 2 oz of each color for a worsted or aran (wt 4) type of yarn. Pattern is in US crochet terms.

******You can purchase the Ad-Free, Printer Friendly Version from Etsy HERE and from Ravelry Here! This includes the step by step process on how to create this Market Bag! You can order the yarn used to create

The Queen's Golden State Coach Tea Cosy Knitting Pattern was designed to celebrate the Queens 90th Birthday, but makes for a brilliant tea cosy all year round. The Queen's Golden State Coach tea cosy is a brilliant little knitting project and looks amazing, turning a round shaped teapot into a royal carriage with the Queen sitting at one of the windows. The Royal State coach is decorative with cherubs, crowns, palm trees, lions' heads, faces, tritons and glorious paintings, I had to simplify so what for a tea cosy design; so the result is an impression based on the Golden State Coach. I have included the lion heads, there's one at each corner at the mid way point up the coach. Above the lions are the finials at each corner of the roof. The roof has twisted roof decorations which echo the fauna garlands that meet up with the three cherubs. The cherubs on the tea cosy are symbolised by three bobbles representing their heads. At the very top there is interlocking rings that mirror the crowning top. The tea cosy is knitted with double thickness yarn to keep the teapot and the tea really hot. The Queen's Golden State Coach tea cosy fits a medium sized teapot that covers a Teapot that holds 6 to 8 cups or 2 pints. The pattern will be available for digital download as soon as you have completed purchase, so you could start knitting, very soon! This product is the knitting pattern only to make your own golden state coach tea cosy. Love our designs? Join our Newsletter and be one of the first to see new products and knitting patterns being added to the TeaCosyFolk Etsy shop. Copy and Paste the URL into your web browser https://www.teacosyfolk.co.uk/cast-on-to-teacosyfolk-news.php

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My husband loves some Crown Royal. It has always been his favorite drink. Me, I am a good ole country girl who loves a beer! So, with that being said, we have a…

I put off doing this quilt for a LONG time! I just couldn't figure out the quilting. Well, it was worth the wait and sometimes you need to s...

Went to Quilt Fest on Friday with my mom. Sooo many beautiful quilts. My mom commented that there were so many and not one was the same. I have to agree. Lots of variety. The quilt above was done by my friend, Cathy Peters. She is our long arm quilter at Cinnamon's. She won a blue ribbon! Sooo proud of her. Great job Cathy!! This was a scrabble quilt. Love the creativity. I took a couple of the dog quilts for my friends at work. They're big dog lovers. For you girls! One for my husband who has been bugging me for a couple of years to make him one of these: On Saturday we headed over to the Goodwill Thrift Store. Found a SUPER buy. This camera bag was $4.99 and brand new! Woo Hoo! Love deals like this. You can see my mom in the background holding it for me. On a football note, my Jaguars won today. Great job guys! Not pretty, but you got the job done. More later, Tracey