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It’s time to announce the three winners of our Knitting at Home book giveaway! I used a random number generator to pick winners from the comments.
#271 – Trishia Jimenez
#357 – Hannah
#921 – Billi Cummings
Congratulations! We’ll be emailing the winners to get their addresses so we can mail these out. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Knitting the Autumn Sun shawl in Chroma worsted was completely addicting.
The whole shawl is knit in garter stitch with simple increases on
each end to create the triangle shape as you knit (the pattern is
available on Ravelry as a free download). With no fancy stitch patterns
to memorize or charts to check and re-check, I sat back and watched the
colors in the Mix Tape colorway transition from yellow to green to pink
to brown.
I love the beginning of the new year! There all sort of possibilities
for fiber crafters – new projects, new resolutions, new techniques to
learn!
But I’m having problems trying to decide what I want to do for 2011.
Maybe learn a new techniques? Maybe a sort of project a week or a
month to do? I just don’t know!
Are you also feeling overwhelmed with choices? Well, we’re here to
help you with a brand new contest! Trafalgar Square Books and Accord
Publishing have kindly provided prizes for our Fresh Start Contest – for
2 lucky winners, we have copies of both the brand new Debbie Bliss book
The Knitter’s Year as well as a copy of the 2011 Page a Day Knitting Calendar!
It is with a great sigh of relief that I can finally announce that we are now selling eBooks — each chock full of Knit Picks Patterns!
Our eBooks
are curated collections of past kits and exclusive patterns, as well as
new patterns. There are four-to-six full patterns in each book for
$9.99 – that’s less than $2- $2.50 each! After a lot of hard work, we
have four eBooks ready for purchase – click below to see more!
I hope all of you are having a wonderful & crafty New Year so far!
We ended up 1185 comments. I went to my favorite random number site this morning and here are the comments it choose for the winners!
The 2 grand prizes – 1 copy of The Knitter’s Year and the Knitting Page a Day calendar:
Congratulations you two! I hope you enjoy!
For our runner up prizes – a copy of the either the Knitting Page A Day or the Crochet Page A Day
#544 Susie Sturgill (knitting)
#18 – Sita (crochet)
#209 – Meg (knitting)
I’ve sent out emails to the email address the winners left on their comment & I hope you all enjoy!
Now, excuse me, I need to start some projects…
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If you are expecting a pattern for these socks, you are out of luck. I’m calling them Chimera for a reason.
Read more »Now that Christmas and Hanukkah are over and New Year’s is just
around the corner, it’s that time of year when I always find myself
making lists of all the things I want to accomplish in the upcoming
year. Teaching myself to knit colorwork is at the top of my list for
2011, I’ve been inspired by all the beautiful colorwork patterns we see
from IDP designers
each week! I polled everyone else in the office to see what
fiber-related resolutions they’re making for 2011. Looks like we’re
going to have a busy year around here.
Our resolutions run the whole gamut from ambitious to basic to what some might even call wishful thinking!
“My
number one goal is learning to weave – I’m taking a class at Madrona in
February! I also want to learn the different dying techniques – hand paint, kettle
dye, maybe play around with making natural dyes… And I also want to create
more patterns...” Kim, merchandising
manager
“Weave
a whole rug. Finish carding and spinning Cher the Sheep’s fleece – I bought it
at the Aurora Spinning Guild show over a year and a half ago! Shop more from my
stash, it’s starting to eat my entire house!” Alison, director of Knit
Picks
Everyone here at Knit Picks would like to wish all of you a
very happy holiday. Thank you for being such great supporters of our company, we really appreciate
and value every single one of you.
For your viewing enjoyment, here’s a video of our holiday classic, How to thank a knitter.
Cheers!
Knit Picks
Read more »It’s time to announce the three winners of our Knitting Motifs for Babies and Kids giveaway! I used a random number generator to pick winners from the comments.
#20 – Irene
#222 – Robin J
#92 – Diane Tetreault
Congratulations!
We’ll be emailing the winners to get their addresses so we can mail
these out. Thanks to everyone who participated. You all had great
comments and ideas!
We know how much you all love our book giveaways so, we’re having another one!
Knitting Motifs for Babies and Kids is an absolutely adorable book featuring 50 great ideas by Lucinda Guy for decorating your kids’ knits.
We only have three copies of this fun-filled book to giveaway so if you
want it; you are going to need to tell me what children’s project you
would use it for. Leave me a comment on THIS blog (comments on other
blog posts won’t be counted) and I will choose three winners on December
23rd. Good luck!
Rules: Only one entry per person. To be
considered, submit a comment describing what children’s project you
would use the book for. Contest ends at 8am PST on December 23rd. Must
have a US or Canada shipping address. No purchase necessary.
