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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 love to bring Maeve home with me!
In a perfect world I would love to knit up a scrumptious lacy scarf and pair of matching gloves to go with my brown winter coat (for next winter, of course).
Maura
Alana
Madigan
Cian Socks to make my feet happy. Not sure what to make with the others just want..........
maura would make the most fantastic leyburn socks. or watchman cap. or mittens. or scarf. or winter set with matching socks.
by the way, i have been madly in love with your yarn for a long, long time. one day i'll have the money to meet it in person.
I adore Maura, all those lovely, slightly faded garden colors! I'd make a large Tudor Grace scarf to snuggle into - perfect for foggy mornings and damp days here in England.
Thank you for offering such a generous giveaway!
Jack! Oh, how I love Jack! I'd love to make a beautiful pair of cable armwarmers with it. it's beautiful.
Selecting only one must surely constitute cruel and unusual punishment! They are all heavenly, I love the color saturation. I think that my pick would be Erin, and I would make socks.
I would love to knit the Shifting Sands Scarf in Cian. It's such a bright and perfect spring colour, perfect after a very LONG and COLD Canadian winter!
Niall, and it would end up as a snappy pair of Viper Pilot socks :P Vroom!
I would love to make some yummy socks out of Jack. But then I like them all to make some lovely sweaters.
So hard to decide.
I absolutely love Grady. I see a beautiful shawl or Cowl to go with my brown winter coat...
Oh my, this is like being in my LYS and trying to choose, which I don't do well with so many choices. I would choose Kierian for a sweater, I love orange hues with socks. I'd also choose Maguire, Fionn and Cara combined for a shrug to wear with dark denim and last but not least, Clare for really cool socks. Can you hear'em calling me?
Beautiful!
This is difficult. A sweater or wrap out of Grady or a cowl out of Niall, I just can't decide. These yarns are beautiful and the pics are wonderful.
Well...I love pink, so I love Kate (and Clare). I would make a cardigan, because I love cardigans. And maybe some socks. Because I am rapidly becoming addicted to sock knitting. So, maybe some Kate socks to go with my Clare cardigan. Yes, that would do nicely.
I would choose Niall and I would knit something for my mom...not sure what as that would depend both on my mood and my most recent inspiration.
I love Niall. I'd make a wonderfully lacy shawl or shrug.
I'm seriously in lust for KIERAN. I'd love a shawl/scarf and maybe some matching mitts.
Maura is beautiful. I would use it for hats, mittens and scarves for my daughter and me - she's moved to Montana and left me in Chicago, so even though we'd have matching accessories and we'd get to wear them at the same time, we'd very rarely be in the same place. - Your Lookbook is wonderful and so are all the yarns. Thanks for this opportunity -
I love Niall. I'd knit a wonderfully lacy shawl or shrug.
After much paging back and forth I would use Madigan to make me a comfort shawl for the evenings. I also love Kate and would like to make socks out of them for myself.
Gorgeous!! (and what fantastic photography too)
I'd take Kate home and turn her into a racer-back tank or something else summery and festive. Or use Niall for a large wrap for spring evenings outdoors.
I would choose Maura, and in a perfect world I would make a long lacy scarf, preferably with a leaf motif to bring out the earthy, springy tones.
I personally love Kate but my daughter's name is Claire (with an I in it) and she would love something made out of Clare. Maybe some socks or an adorable scarf? Maybe a clapotis because she has been asking for one and her birthday is coming up in May. She is quite enthusiastic about the things I knit for her, so it would definitely be worth it! I am thinking if I don't win, I will still need to order that and make it for her! You are such an enabler! (but I love it!)
I love Maeve the best...lovely blend of colours. But really it was SO hard to choose...I liked most of them. Especially your way of photographing and describing the colours. I would definitely make a little baby sweater for my youngest daughter...she needs something special knit from her mom! Thanks for the contest and makign beautiful yarn!
Grady - wants to be a soft, warm scarf and hat for me!
Or Niall - he'd wants to be a hat, for sure!
Cian!
I would make an enormous circular shawl, one of those ridiculously complex ones, and I would dance naked with it wrapped around me.