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TIME’S UP! Biggest yarn giveaway… ever!
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 5:31PM
Time is up! We'll be liveblogging the winners today (Wednesday) around 12:00 noon EST.
Have you seen our Spring Lookbook yet? (Even if you do nothing but flip through and think, "Cool," that will make me happy.)
We are giving away every skein of yarn pictured in the Spring Lookbook. Every single skein. All twenty of them.
This one:
And this one:
And this one:
And all seventeen more. We're not giving away the other stuff in the pictures, just the yarn.
There is no catch. You don't have to buy anything, you don't even have to pay for shipping. All you have to do is enter.
Contest rules: One entry per person. Our blog logs IP addresses, so we can check. Please enter only one time. You cannot be an employee of Three Irish Girls or be related to an employee of Three Irish Girls. (Got that, honey?) Your entry must be received by 4:30 am Eastern time on Wednesday, March 25th. Entries sent after that time will not be included in the contest.
Here's how it works: Reply to this post, answering the question below. You must actually reply to this post, do not email in your answer. (Click on the Read User's Comments link, and scroll down. It will take you to a box where you can reply.) After all the entries have been received, the number of entrants will be divided into 20 groups. One winner will be selected from each of the 20 groups. This is to improve your chances of winning. For example, if there are 100 responses, I will divide everyone into 20 groups. Each group will have five people.
Are you with me? 100 divided by 20= 5. I will then choose one winner from each of the 20 groups. In the scenario I've given, your odds of winning will change from one in 100 to one in five. Or something like that. I'm not a statistician. Just try to trust me, I'm looking out for you here. There will also be one grand prize given away, a winner randomly chosen from among everyone. The grand prize is a $150 gift certificate to be used on anything you like in our store.
TIME IS UP! WINNER'S WILL BE ANNOUNCED AROUND 12:00 EST TODAY (WEDNESDAY). BE SURE AND CHECK BACK, and thank you, everyone. :)GOOD LUCK, AND MAY THE (KNITTING) FORCE BE WITH YOU!
Have you seen our Spring Lookbook yet? (Even if you do nothing but flip through and think, "Cool," that will make me happy.)
We are giving away every skein of yarn pictured in the Spring Lookbook. Every single skein. All twenty of them.
This one:
And this one:
And this one:
And all seventeen more. We're not giving away the other stuff in the pictures, just the yarn.
There is no catch. You don't have to buy anything, you don't even have to pay for shipping. All you have to do is enter.
Contest rules: One entry per person. Our blog logs IP addresses, so we can check. Please enter only one time. You cannot be an employee of Three Irish Girls or be related to an employee of Three Irish Girls. (Got that, honey?) Your entry must be received by 4:30 am Eastern time on Wednesday, March 25th. Entries sent after that time will not be included in the contest.
Here's how it works: Reply to this post, answering the question below. You must actually reply to this post, do not email in your answer. (Click on the Read User's Comments link, and scroll down. It will take you to a box where you can reply.) After all the entries have been received, the number of entrants will be divided into 20 groups. One winner will be selected from each of the 20 groups. This is to improve your chances of winning. For example, if there are 100 responses, I will divide everyone into 20 groups. Each group will have five people.
Are you with me? 100 divided by 20= 5. I will then choose one winner from each of the 20 groups. In the scenario I've given, your odds of winning will change from one in 100 to one in five. Or something like that. I'm not a statistician. Just try to trust me, I'm looking out for you here. There will also be one grand prize given away, a winner randomly chosen from among everyone. The grand prize is a $150 gift certificate to be used on anything you like in our store.
TIME IS UP! WINNER'S WILL BE ANNOUNCED AROUND 12:00 EST TODAY (WEDNESDAY). BE SURE AND CHECK BACK, and thank you, everyone. :)GOOD LUCK, AND MAY THE (KNITTING) FORCE BE WITH YOU!
Reader Comments (1779)
I love the blend of Cameron, almost edible! I'd provide a good home for it..... and transform it... hopefully (I'm new to knitting!) into some fingerless gloves... or maybe a cowl.... so many possibilities!
Oh my goodness Cian is the most beautiful yellow yarn I have ever seen. I have loved yellow since I was a child and have been looking for a shade of yellow that would make me immediately happy ... yours did it. I love it. I think I would make mittens with it; why? Because my 6 year old just challenged me to learn and make her a pair and what would be better on a cold miserable day but sunny, warm, happy Cian mittens!
I was only able to narrow it down to 2.
I love Kieran and would make a beautiful pair of socks to have a flash of fiery color on my feet!!
I also love Maura. The blend of gorgeous muted colors would be yummy in a shawl (that I would wear all the time.
Maeve - a sweater for my daughter, sox for me or a shawl for my mother-in-law I can't wait to order some soon!
I would love to bring home Alana. I love the subtle pinks. I think I would make a really pretty lacy scarf (since we don't need warmth here in GA!)
They're all so beautiful, but I think Niall is calling my name. I would use it for a cowl for my daughter, or perhaps a cute springtime beret for me.
Cian.
I loved all of them and wasn't sure how I was going to choose; but when I came to that one it took first place.
Daffodils are my favourite flower and I'm anxiously awaiting spring. Even just the picture brightened my day - I would love to have the yarn itself!
My favorite (I love them all) is Clare. I don't think you could've more accurately created my favorite color if you asked me. It has beautiful depth and richness; I love it.
I would make an intricate lace shawl with this yarn. I love the depth of hand painted yarn in shawl patterns.
I would definitely pick Niall because I love purple and blue! It would make lovely socks or a scarf.
Love several but favorite is Cameron. It would make a wonderful Just Enough Ruffles scarf or Minimalist cardigan.
Brady, Clare, and Maura are speaking to me. I love Brady and Clare for their intensity and Maura for subtlety. I would knit socks, socks, socks, and more socks! bwa ha ha ha ha!
Well, even though my middle name is Maeve, and I have already fallen in love with Clare, Alana, Cian, Maura and Grady, I would have to go with Jack. My husband is getting ready to deploy overseas for God knows how long and I would like to make him some tall socks to brighten his dreary olive drab and tan world. Its such a lovely combination of greens, browns, golden yellows and oranges.
I would choose Grady and make a long scarf with it. Love the colors.
Maguire, Fionn & Cara - any of those is a lovely shade for a cabled cardigan. I just am not sure there would be enough! But soooo lovely. Just the right punch of color for gray pittsburgh.
Niall - a pair of socks for my mother in law.
Cian - I would use to make Wendy Johnson's new sunflower socks as soon as the pattern is available. Such a vibrant yellow! My mother would love this.
Best of Luck to everyone!
I love Brady!!! I'm learning to knit socks and I think that's what it would have to be. It's beautiful.
Maeve... She is beautiful.. Of course they all are but she is calling to me..
Devin is my absolute favorite. I think I would make a sweater with it =) So spring-y and summer-y!!
Ok, that was too hard, but I think Maeve won out though Grady, Jack and Cameron were in the running. I would most likely knit it into a beautiful pair of plain vanilla socks or with a very simple stitch pattern, but it would definitely become socks with the leftovers possibly becoming a snail a la Mochimochi Land.
Jack - socks in either a chevron or feather and fan type pattern, or a slip stitch pattern. Or else a bright scarf to cheer up a winter coat. It would be so pretty in a lot of things!
Madigan for socks, or any of them for one or another part of me... selfish me. Of course I can't make anything to fit yet, on myself let alone others. But good yarn is the best inspiration to keep practicing, and these are all SO COOL!
The choice is difficult, but I need Brady and Connor. I would make a beret out of Brady and some sassy gloves to match out of Connor. If I could only choose 1 then it would have to be Brady.
I have never seen a group that has made it so hard to choose a favorite!
But I've managed to narrow it down to Erin or Jack, and I think I might make some fingerless mitts or socks. I really just want to look at it all day! :)
Boy, I'm hard pressed to decide between Clare and Fionn. I guess if I really had to choose just one it would be Clare for its richness and uniqueness. They're all so beautiful!
I would choose Madigan. It is so pretty and I am new to knitting, so I don't know what I would make with it. Probably a really pretty hat for next winter, and a matching pair of mittens, if there is enough! :)
Kieran -- I would probably make socks. Warm colors make the warmest socks!