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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 know I'm supposed to choose just one colorway but after each image I kept changing my mind, I love them all. But, if I must choose just one I think it would be Maura. I can see myself making some knee high CookieA socks or in a perfect word, a Nancy Bush Estonian lace shawl. Beautiful colorway, keep up the good work!
I would use Devin to make a "Spring" hat, because here in the Frozen North we still need to be kept warm but are desperate for spring-like things.
absolutely Jack, the name of my favorite Young and Restless character, I would make a shawlette or scarf so I could wrap him around me and keep him close!
Definitely Kate! It is gorgeous, and would look lovely as either a sweater or socks, or better yet- both!
I would love either Kieran or Maura, and I would make socks. I love socks!
Such beautiful colors! I would have to make a sweet pair of socks, just so I could look at my toes all day long and feel pampered! Clare would have to be mine!!!
Well, since Cian, Madigan and Jack are already coming to live with me, I'm going with my sister's choices...As Clevelanders, we want Brady and Grady.
In my dream knitting universe, Brady will be a quarterback handwarming muff for Brady Quinn, which my sister will toss him with his bacon and egg white omelet.
Grady will become a pair of adult soakers, because my sister has been wanting to throw her panties at Grady Sizemore for years.
Kate, I love it. It is the closest I have ever seen to the perfect colorway. I would swim in it.... No really. I would make a giant triangular shawl to wrap myself in, and felted boots!
I just love Cameron. It has all the colors I wear - red, orange, yellow and green. Goes great with the blonde hair. If there's enough for a scarf, that is what I would do, so all could see. If not, socks make me happy, too.
Wow - how beautiful - both the yarn and the photo styling! If I were to choose, I'd choose Kieran, with which to make a fiery Aeolian.
When I saw Kieran, Devin and Clare, I thought how nice they would look as gloves with a matching hat or maybe a shawl.
Then I saw Cian and it took my breath away -- perfect for any sock in Cookie A.'s new book!
OH, I had a hard time picking, for sure! All the colors are so wonderful and I'm sure I need all of them!
But, i think I've been anle to narrow it down to two. I love, love LOVE both Jack and Grady.
Jack needs to be a fantastic pair of socks for me and
Grady needs to be a top for me as well...or it would make fantabulous socks as well! Oh, I can't decide!
Thanks for being so unbelievably generous with this contest! I'm eternally grateful...even if I'm not one of the winners.
I would like the madigan color way. I would make the E. Zimmerman Rib Warmer.
Wow - what a generous giveaway! And do I seriously have to pick just one? They're all so beautiful, and I'd love so many. But, if choose I must, I'd pick Kieran, and I'd probably make the Moonlight Sonata Shawl with it. Or some fingerless gloves. Can you tell I'm not very good with decisions?
I'd have to bring home Brady and Connor! I'd knit them together into fabulous longies for to cover the sweet cloth-diapered bum of my soon-to-be new niece or nephew!
I would take home maeve and make myself a cardigan
For me it has to be Clare! It would be the perfect color for a stole to wear over a perfect little black dress.
I'm a fan of Kieran. I can imagine the yarn as fingerless gloves, or a lace hat. Enough to keep the chill away, but warm enough to wear on a spring day walking to work.
I absolutely love Clare! My favorite colors.
I would love to knit a scarf or neckwarmer and a pair of fingerless gloves or wristwarmers.
My most favorite from the Spring Lookbook is Maura. I would make a lace scarf or stole, depending on the yardage.
Maura! I have been wanting to jump on the Clapotis bandwagon for along time and the colors in this yarn are perfect. They are subtle and interesting...just gorgeous!
I think I'd pick Jack. It's perfectly earthy and vibrant at the same time. I'd get it on something ultra squishy, maybe galenas or elenya.... I'd knit a ginormous throw that I can cuddle with every single day of my life. With cables, lots of fat cables. It'd be big enough for me and dh, or just me. I'd make a pillow to match, and my couch would be their home. Mmmm.
Clare would make the most beautiful hat... I love your photography!
I love Maeve !!!!
I would make a beautiful sweater for me.
Jack! Socks, or anything, actually, for myself. That was so hard, all of the colorways are amazing!!