Monday
Mar232009
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)
It's a tough choice, but I fell in love with Maura. The colors feel indulgent, but it's still subtle, in a way. I would absolutely make a sweater with it, because I've never made a sweater before, and I'm dying to make one!
I am in love with so many colourways that I feel a little risque. Maura wants to be an elegant understated lightweight scarf. Grady is destined to be a hat/scarf/mittens set. Maeve is begging to be socks for me, while Devin wants to be matching father/son socks. But Madigan has my heart; I want to make February Lady & Baby sweaters out of it, and socks, and wool longies, and hats, and scarves, and... yeah.
Oh, Clare, Clare, please, because it's my shades of red and I love it! I would make a fabulous shawl to wrap myself in red!
Kate. It reminds me of sweet peas and sunny spring flowers. It would look so good as a little sweater for my red-headed niece. Or as socks for me or to give to a friend. The color is just so happy that I think it would give me happy feet to dance in. Oh, there's another idea--I could make those heel-less and toe-less socks that I could wear for belly dancing. Dancing in my bare feet makes my feet hurt, and there's still a chill in the floors.....
Maeve...swoon...oh, Maeve...you are so beautiful!
I would make you into a lovely scarf and wear you every single day!
Oh, definitely Erin. And I would make a set of scarf and mitts for my mother, who has recently moved from California to the much colder state of Idaho.
So hard to choose just one... but going to go with Kate. And I would make myself a bag from it. A smallish, slightly felted bag with fabric lining and a strap long enough to cross my chest. Yup.
Maeve and Devin are my favorites. Maeve would be sent to someone else to make me socks since I can't stand knitting them myself- and Devin would be a to die for February Lady. I don't even care that I already have a green FLS!
Kieran for me, too. I love that fire-red color. I'd get enough in the BFL to make a sweater. Maybe Coraline, since I keep talking about that one.
So hard to choose! But from the moment I saw Maura, she has intrigued me. Those colors just look so *good* together, and so sophisticated! I think I'd make my first shawl out of it so I could be wrapped all up in its gorgeousness!
Maguire. I could see making a February Lady Sweater from it. I'm in a big teal phase.
The good news is that I already have the answer to this question...as long as I'm allowed to give 2 answers (and no, one of those answers isn't "all of them," although that could easily be true). But already coming home to me are:
Jack - I fell in love with the greens, but the yellow/orange/brown took me aback at first...and then I realized how much I loved all of those colors together. Jack will make a wonderful pullover for my son, once I find (or design) an appropriately wonderful pattern.
Kate - the pinks and browns are beautiful, but it's that light lime green that makes it so much fun! Kate will be a cardigan (http://www.classiceliteyarns.com/WebLetter/81/Issue81.php) for my daughter.
Someday, I'll figure out what I'm getting for ME...
I would love to take the colorway Jan home. What a knockout color combo, with that suprising warm tan mixed with blue. I can't tell what weight yarn this is, so it's hard to know what I'd make. Perhaps socks.
The one that caught my eye right away is Kate what a gorgeous combination of colors! With a majority of boys in the house pink is now one of my favorite colors :) Depending on how much I have (since it's a perfect knitting universe I'll go with 16oz) lol I would knit myself a beautiful hat with a matching neck warmer. In my perfect knitting universe I'd already know how to knit socks so I'd knit myself a pair, What a wonderful way to keep myself warm in the winter!
Asking me to chose is like asking me to stop breathing...ALL are stunning....
But if I had to absolutely chose it would be Maguire,Fionn and Cara because they remind me of home and the crystal turquoise waters of the Caribbean sea and the waves lapping at my toes.
Ohh, I can not choose my favorite,
Cameron or maybe Kieran, wait what about Alana or Devin...
I want them all !!! I can knit a shawl for myself and pairs of luxury mittens and hats for my DD and something for my DH and a lot of presents for all my friends. Lovely dreams!
I would love to knit with the Erin color. I'd make a shawl and I think it would be very mermaid-ey when completed! Gorgeous.
If I had to pick just one, I'd have to go with Maura and I'd make a beautiful shawl for myself.
I absolutely love, love, love Clare and I would use it for a light, springy cardigan or wrap!
Cian... I would make myself something bright and cheerful to combat rainy days!
Kieran - it would make a beautiful prairie shawl.
I would choose Erin for my best friend Kim who lives in Maine. It's so cold there, I'd make her socks to keep her feet warm. She has so little and gives so much to the people at her church and at the nursing home where she works.
OOOOO.... I love Alana and would make a shrug for my daughter, and Niall for some lovely, squishy, wonderful, beautiful, socks.
I love Jan-I would make a feather and fan scarf.
Picking just one is not easy.
In a perfect world I would turn Clare into a gorgeous cabled cardigan of some sort, although it would make me supremely nervous because I have never attempted anything that big and I would hate to mess up anything with that yarn. My practical side says I would turn it into a hat with hand warmers and then go somewhere where it is fall all the time.
On another note, I absolutely love the photographs. I can't decide if the photographs or the yarns are more lovely. They are just amazing to look at.