Up and Away
Lots of little bits today, and no overarching theme. Is scattered a theme? No? Could we pretend it is? First, some business. Today's lucky winner is Darcy! She will be getting a skein of lovely yarn from Dicentra Designs in her favorite color, Opal Creek. I'll be in touch to work out the details. Next, knitting progress. I've actually been knitting rather a lot, I'm just keeping it secret to spite you. All will be revealed in time, but for now I can show you these. They're almost done and I'm just itching to finish them so I can hurry [...]
Winner!
And the winner is...Steph, with comment 52! I'll be emailing you later today to arrange to send you your goodies. Thanks to everyone who entered, and thanks for all the nice comments about the socks. I'll be placing an order for more of the Three Irish Girls yarn some time next week, and it's great to know what colors you all prefer. The socks with Dicentra's yarn are making their way through the testing process and should be out in early November. I've got another pair written up and about to go out for testing, and a third pair on [...]
Calcareous
Calcareous is live, click here if you'd like to make yourself a pair, or to find out what I meant by yesterday's crack about my misspent youth. I also have the distinct pleasure of announcing that Sharon at Three Irish Girls has graciously agreed to donate a skein of the gorgeous Adorn Sock yarn I used to make these socks to one lucky reader! Now lately, I've had the marvelous experience of being contacted by several talented yarn dyers asking me to design patterns for them. This has been (and continues to be) great fun, but that's not what happened [...]
Winner!
The winner of the lovely Shalimar Yarns Zoe Sock is...Kerri at number 14! Thanks so much to everyone who entered. I'm officially sold on these giveaways and will do my best to offer them when I release patterns in the future. Thanks to everyone who entered. Come back Thursday morning for a link to the first part of the pattern for a mystery knit along on Ravelry!
Xanthophyll
Xanthophyll socks are live, and the pattern is here! To celebrate their release, the folks at Shalimar Yarns have kindly offered to donate a skein of the lovely Zoe Sock yarn I used to make them to one lucky reader. To have a chance to win, just go over to their website, find your favorite color of the Zoe Sock yarn, and leave the name of it in the comments. You can leave other stuff too of course (I find reading comments strangely entertaining) but you have to leave a color name to win. I'll leave the comments open until [...]
The Sun Will Come Out…
Or rather The Boy will come home while the sun has come out. For that unusual confluence of events is really all that is standing in the way of releasing the Xanthophyll socks. They'll be out tomorrow morning! Just as exciting, the marvelous folks over at Shalimar Yarns have agreed to donate a skein of the Zoe Sock in Sapote (the yarn I used to make the socks) to a lucky reader. I'll post the details tomorrow, but it will be another of the 'leave a comment, get a chance to win' sort of things. The next release will be [...]
Results!
Wow, you guys like yarn! The site has been up for about six months and I had almost as many comments on the yarn giveaway post as on all the others put together. I won't keep you in suspense, the results, as generated by the random number generator on random.org is Ellen at number 31. I will send you an email today to get your address and will have the package in the mail tomorrow or the next day. This has been fun, I'll have to see if I can do more of these yarn giveaways in the future. The [...]
Yarn Giveaway!
Bines is live! To celebrate I'm having a giveaway. The Schaefer Yarn Company has graciously donated a skein of their lovely Heather yarn in Dian Fossey (that's the yarn I knit them in, just to be clear), and I'm giving away a copy of the pattern (or a copy of a different pattern if that's what the winner would prefer). If you'd like a chance to win the yarn and pattern, just leave a comment on this post. I will leave comments open till Monday evening. On Tuesday I'll randomly pick one person from the comments and contact them to [...]
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