How to Donate

With just over four months until the first ever Pink Auction, we are gearing up to start receiving donations of creative textiles. For each auction item donated, the donor needs to submit a completed donation form so the auction organizers know just how special your creation is!

We love it when you keep in touch with us while you're working on the donation so drop us a note and if you include a photo or link to your blog post about the project, we'll feature it in an upcoming Pink Cork blog post!

For now, you can download two PDFs - One with the DONATION FORM to complete for each item you donate to the Pink Auction and the other PDF is a list of SUGGESTED DONATION ITEMS. Both are in this post as images for you to preview and linked to in both forms on our blog's MEDIA page.

Free Pattern Friday: Lacy Scarves

This week's Free Pattern Friday link list was compiled by Evin of Spring Stitches

Classic Elite Yarns has this Breast Cancer Awareness Scarf designed by Heather Bagni on their website.

Go over to Lisa Lloyd Designs for Lisa Lloyd’s Sister Scarves pattern.

The short link to this post is: http://bit.ly/fpf-3

Check out our Free Pattern Links for a complete listing of the beautiful, cool, and inspiring projects available online.

Free Pattern Friday: Cupcakes

This week's Free Pattern Friday link list was compiled by Evin of Spring Stitches

If you have a sweet tooth, you can enjoy all the cupcakes you want without the calories with these treats.

Lion Brand Yarns has a deliciously darling free crochet pattern for a Think Pink Cupcake.

Teresa Richardson shares the pattern and a video on how to crochet your very own CupCake Hat.

We can’t get enough of Little Cotton Rabbits's Knitted Cupcake Decoration! Knit it up and sew it on a tee, jumper, tote, or hat and it takes on a whole new sweet personality. Feast your eyes on their collection of free patterns (for personal use or charity fundraising - that’s us). So hop on over for a sweet treat.

For those with embroidery skills, we love the simplicity of Tricia-Rennea's Cupcake Design for Hand-Embroidery.

Pink Committee Meeting

We will be having a meeting upstairs in Brew Café on Paul Street in Cork City Centre. Discussion will begin at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday the 27th of May. Please come along. The casual committee will be talking about international knitting day as well as plans for our stall at the Innishannon Vintage Rally. After the meeting, everyone is invited to come to the Vibes & Scribes knitting group for free tea and wooly talk.

If you bring your work, you can show off what you're creating, share your ideas, and just meet people in-person.

Please share this with anyone you think would like to attend this meeting or be involved in helping plan the Pink Auction. Bring your friends, mammy, granny, and sisters! Breast Cancer affects us all now we can all do something to really help raise awareness and funds for Action Breast Cancer.

Free Pattern Friday: Quilts

This week's Free Pattern Friday link list was compiled by Evin of Spring Stitches

From now on, every Friday we will be posting a link to at least one free pattern to encourage you to continue crafting with textiles. We look forward to seeing you here more often we we can welcome the weekend with beautiful and free patterns.

Ro Gregg’s Rose Garden Tea Quilt and Lisa Christensen’s Make Mine Pink, Please! Quilt kick off our very first Free Pattern Friday. Come back next week to see what new free pattern we’ve found to drool over!

Do you have a free pattern? We’d love to include it in a future post so send us an e-mail. Check out our Free Pattern Links for a complete listing of the beautiful, cool, and inspiring projects available online. All patterns shared in this blog are appropriate for the Pink Auction donation guidelines.

Interview with Anna Daly on Cork's LifeFM 93.1

We're on Cork's LifeFM 93.1 today, Thurs., 6 May, 10:30-10:45 a.m. with Anna Daly. Listen online!