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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)
Hands down, Niall. What a lovely pair of Twisted Flower or Striken she would make!
Maeve or Madigan . . . I just love color.
Madigan it is -- a nice spring vest or tank to wear over a crisp white shirt. The perfect knit for that tough transition season and colors to make me smile!
I absolutely love Jack!! It reminds me of all the fresh Summer fruit. I would use this to design and knit a lacey Spring/Summer scarf. This contest is so generous of you!! Thanks!
I love many of the new colors, and have already ordered a bunch, but most surprising is that I love Cameron! I don't usually like warm colors, especially orange and yellow, but I would wear something in this color....maybe a lacy scarf.
Grady would definitely be on its way to my knitting basket. It would make a fabulous hat. Devin would make a cute cute cute pair of socks. So many great choices, so little time to knit!
Niall, and I would make the biggest knitted blanket ever, and just wrap myself in that lovely colour! Colours make me happy, and Niall has the colours I love the most.
"Clare" colourway is gorgeous!
The same name as my beautiful niece, whose favourite colour as pink - as only a 6 year old girl can truly love love love pink! I would love to make her a lovely cosy shrug for spring.
Thanks for the contest. Lovely yarn!
Picking one is tough--I like them all. Seriously. There's not a clunker in the bunch!
That said, I'm going with Kate, which has pretty much every one of my favorite colors. Since I'm sock-obsessed, my first inclination would be to make socks, but I think it would also make a nice scarf or winter wrap. I really like bright, cheery colors for wintertime accessories.
OMGoodness! Grady is beautiful!!! It made me just stop and stare.
So yummy, bold, and beautiful!
They are all so beautiful!!
Maeve is my favorite - I would make a beret and matching fingerless gloves, or a lacy shawl.
I would love to make Jack into a fantastic hat. Love your work!
Clare would have to be a lacy shawl to brighten up a dreary Wisconsin Spring!
I absolutely love,love,love all of the colorways. Jack,Conor, Brady, Devin Oh it is so difficult LOL. A shawl would be very nice, also a cardy, ski hat with a big pom pom, the possibilities are endless here.
It has to be blue! So I guess it would be
Maguire,Fionn or Cara. It would be hard to pick one, so I'd have to have all 3. LOL
I love them all, but my favorite is Maeve! Preferably in sock yarn- that's my obsession- I'm much more adventurous with my socks than with the rest of my clothes!
Niall is gorgeous! I'd knit up a lacy cardigan that I could wear year-round.
I really love Maura. Those are definitely my colors. But this time of year, when winter is draggin on and on.... I would choose Kieran. You feel warmer inside just from looking at it. I would knit a pair of socks for all the cold days I stand around watching my kids' hockey games.
Talk about a hard choice! They are all so gorgeous! But, if I can only pick one, it would be Clare. I love the reds/burgundys. I would make myslef the most awesome pair of fingerless gloves on the planet!!
I adore all of them, but the project I keep dreaming about is the diminishing ribs cardigan in Maura on Wexford. Mmmmm
Kieran is the yarn I would choose since it would be beautiful as a pair of intricately cabled socks!
Only one colorway? It's awfully close between Grady, Cameron & Maura, but I guess Maura. It would probably become a sweater, because I like knitting sweaters best. Maybe a lacy sweater. I think variegated yarn looks good in lace.
I would choose Cameron and I would make pretty armwarmers I could wear while knitting in bed or outside when it is chilly. I would have to knit something quick and simple so I could really see the colors and wear it as soon as possible.
I thought my favorite was Kate until I saw Jack.
It was Jack until I saw Maurna.
It was Maurna until I saw Grady.
It was Grady until I saw Alana.
I think my final favorite is Alana and I would make a comfy cardigan. Or socks. Or a tank top.
They are all beautiful and the photographs are wonderfully staged. In a perfect world...I would knit Ene's Scarf from Maguire!
In a perfect universe, (not so much unlimited money needed, but unlimited knitting time and patience!) I would love to take home Niall and make a beautiful pair of fingerless mitts... preferably something long and elegant, maybe a scarf to match!