Not everyone’s a winner…

... but the rest of you are definitely NOT losers! I appreciate you entering our contest, and hope you'll try again next time, if you didn't win this go-round.

I instructed my trusty random number generator to select a number between 1 and 114.

It complied.

It's a good random number generator.



It chose #58 as the person who won the golden ticket!

And the winner is...



Wendy! Congrats! :) What will you choose?

And hey, while I have you on the line... here are a couple of new colorways:

Riordan:

Here it is on Beckon:



And here it is on Carys BFL:



And also, Cernunnos, the ancient Celtic god of nature.

I think this is pretty nature-y. It looks like the Celtic version of nature to me. But hey, I'm kind of weird. I think that's been firmly established.

On Beckon:



And on Carys:



These are for sale right now here. Instock and everything!

Thanks for playing. I have more pics to show you tomorrow. And if you're a club member, you don't want to miss tomorrow's update... it's going to be good!

TIME’S UP! And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

The Great Internet Outage of 2008 is officially over. Thanks to those of you who sent concerned letters via wagon train, owls bearing news of the outside world, and nourishing soups to bolster our strength.

We have much to share -- Albert is all grown up, and has taken himself a lovely bride. Laura is headed west to homestead on the prairie, and Mrs. Oleson and I have been busily preparing for the coming winter by darning socks and canning the last of the summer berries. Hopefully, Pa will enjoy his jam as the snow flies in January.

prepare for segue

It's time for a contest, don't you think?

I do think.

As a prize, how about a skein of our awesome new sock yarn, Beckon? I can't wait to share its awesomeness with you. Never a prettier sock yarn has been found. Never a stretchier, funner-to-knit-with yarn has been seen. Never has a grammar teacher been so horrified.



You pick your poison: a semi solid? Describe the color, and we can make it for you. Or maybe one of our yummy handpainted colorways? To sweeten the deal, we'll also add a free copy of one of our sock patterns.

To enter, respond to this post and answer the following question: What's on your needles right now? Or perhaps, what do you wish were on your needles right now? This will allow those of you who tidily finish one project before beginning another to enter.

Or allow those of you who are currently stuck in the horrid, "When the BLEEP is this project going to be finished?!?!" stage to fantasize about greener pastures. (Which I've heard are out west on the prairie.)

You have until Thursday evening, October 9th, to respond, and then we'll randomly select a winner. I will share one of my projects tomorrow!

Secondly.

Thank you all for your kind words and orders during our sale week. I'm glad you like the new colorways! We're going to be adding a new sock yarn to our lineup in the coming weeks as well. Our Sock Yarnista club members were the first to try it, and we just can't keep our hands off of it. It's called Beckon Sock, and it's insanely stretchy and soft.

Just to stave off the inevitable questions, the colorway below is called Arctic Circle, and it's available to club members only. When you join one of our clubs, you also get to order any of our previous club colorways on any yarn base you like, even if you weren't a member of the club when it was released. The club colorways are exclusive to club members.

Here's a little picture:


In fact, I'm certain that the criminals responsible for the massive quantities of spam messages received here are just trying to keep Beckon out of the hands of gentle knitters like you. They want more for themselves. And whatnot.

It could happen. It's unlikely that there's some kind of vast worldwide conspiracy, but it's possible. It's possible men landed on the moon, and it's possible there's a yarn conspiracy. That's all I'm saying. Work with me here.

Back to the sale. I promised someone would win a $25 gift code just for placing an order, and someone did! I won't give identifying details because perhaps -- just perhaps -- this person doesn't want her shopping and ordering habits dissected on a blog, but I will say that her first name is Maria, and that she's been notified of her prize.

If your name is not Maria and you have not received a congratulatory email from us, you are NOT the winner.

Just to clarify: three things had to happen for you to be the winner. You had to place an order during our sale week. (Maria.) You had to have your name randomly drawn from all the order placers. (Maria.) And then you had to be contacted by us to be informed of your win. (Maria.) If these things did not happen, you are not the winner. If your name is Maria, but you did not place an order during sale week, chances are good you also did not receive a winning email from us, and chances are good you are also not the winner.

I am sorry, there is nothing I can do.

Don't feel too bad, I didn't win, either. You know things are bad when you can't even win your own darn contest.

But, hey, Congratulations, Maria!!!

Back to school sale: starts August 17th!

The short version: we're having a sale. The end.

The longer version: we're having a sale. It starts August 17th. The end.

The details version: we're having a sale. It starts August 17th at 10:00 am EST and ends August 24th at 10:00 pm EST. Get free domestic shipping (discounted international shipping) plus an additional 10% off any order over $50. Every person who places an order during the sale will be entered into a drawing to win a $25 gift code. Get yummy stuff like this:









But there's more... we'll also be debuting our fall colorway collection. WOOT! WOOT!

The sale doesn't apply to club memberships, orders placed before the sale date, dyeing tutorials, dyeing kits, or patterns. The sale does not apply to me or my children. The sale does not apply to anything related to giraffes or elephants. Not that we have products related to giraffes or elephants, but if we did, this sale would not be applicable.

Let’s choose a winner…

I really enjoyed reading about all of your hidden talents. Who knew that so many of you could do weird things with your tongue?

Without further ado...

I instructed my truster random number generator to choose a number between 1 and 71:



And it decided that today's luck number was 53. What a lovely odd number 53 is. Don't you think?



Who does #53 belong to you, ask?



Melissa! Congratulations! You get to choose a skein of any yarn you like on any one of our colorways. :)