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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 would choose Alana, which needs to be a sweet little dress for my Lydia.
ok i've had food poisoning today, and although i'm feeling loads better i'm only semi coherent, so bear with me (and my spelling, which deteriorates tons when i'm sick).
the choices are all soooo beautiful, but if i absolutely had to pick i'd choose niall. we know i'm a sucker for blues & purples, and this colorway is so rich. i love it.
and in an ideal knitting universe i'd make the fountain pen shawl from the spring 09 interweave. this is what my friends and i would call "absolutely gorgey".
Wow is all I can say, Kieran is a yarn of dreams. The colors are so rich and lively. I would love to make a great slouchy hat or some fab lacy socks.
DROOOOLLLL
I think I like Brady best of all. He would make an adorable Clementine shawlette.
Oh I love the sock yarn and can't wait to get my hands on some Spring Colours
They are ALL beautiful but Clare would be my first choice. I would love to make a yummy scarf if I had one skein but if I had many skeins I would make a sweater.
Erin. I'm a sucker for blue/green combinations. Although, the sunny yellows in Cian are gorgeous, too. And ... well, no, I'll stop there. Though, the green in Devin is about my favorite color, and the reds/oranges of Kieran sure are pretty, too...
And--for what? Socks are always a good choice, aren't they?
Oh my there were a few that I must buy I can always start my "diet" next week... lol So if I was going to choose just one it would be Maura and it would me made into a shawl!
I loved them all!! BUT when I finally got to Cian all the others faded into a fond memory - Cian is absolutely wonderful!! So vibrant, different, positive, sunny! I will have happy, dancing feet forever when I knit it into lovely socks! Of course, I would need more to make a great scarf, too!
Clare, Maura, and Niall all seem to be calling my name. In a perfect knitting world, where I have a job, I'd make a sweater from Clare.
I absolutely MUST knit a "Pretty as a Peacock" shawl in the Erin colorway.....and a Princess Dress for my girls in Clare......They're all amazing!
Madigan! It would be a perfect Clapotis for me!!
But seriously, they'r all gorgeous and I can't wait to get some on roving!!!!!
i love all of them, but i would pick erin. there are plenty i would love to bring home with me, of course, but with erin, i would make a slouchy beret for myself!
Kate has to come live with me here!! I would make pretty capris out of it :)
I love Devin--what a stunning green! I would knit a lace shawl with it, because it would go great with my red hair (yes, I'm Irish!)
There are none I would be unhappy with, though if I was picking just 1 it would have to be Devin. The greens have just enough variation to give great texture and in a perfect knitting worls I would make organic & leaf detailed fingereless gloves and a neckwarmer for biking on cooler days in the spring.
I'm very impressed with they dying.
Clare. Love it, love it, love it. I think I would make the Wool Peddler's Shawl - I think this relatively simply shawl would show off the delicate color changes just beautifully.
You've made some really beautiful colorways, I've got all sorts of ideas for the different colorways...I'm thinking something beautiful for myself out of Maura.
I love so many of them, but Devin is my fave. I'd make a sweater for my neice.
How to choose!? Grady or Madigan ? Either way it would be a simle moebius to show off those fabulous colours!
Alana & it would be socks-some pair with a lot of detail!! I love all the others too-esp. Connor, Maura, Brady & Kate. All are so yummy :)
How to choose?!? I'll say Maura, for a shawl - or maybe my first sweater.
(But there are a good half-dozen colors that are vying for the runner-up position...)
I'd love to have a skein of Connor. That color trio of lime, sky and lilac would make a great vest to go with all the purple I wear!
I would take "Grady" home. The colors remind me of great beers: Oatmeal Stout, Scotch Ale, and Espresso Porter. There are also Fudge Stout Brownies for dessert. I would knit the "Barfly Pullover" from the book Pints & Purls, Portable Projects for the Social Knitter.
The choices are difficult but it would have to be Clare. I'd knit more socks!