Fiber Friday Yarn Giveaway!
***Update***
I had no idea I was so good at marketing myself! I expected a much smaller response, so I have decided to close this contest earlier than expected. This way, the odds won’t be so paltry for everyone. The contest now officially closes at noon EST February 1st. Please remember that I cannot ship internationally, so if you do not have a U.S. mailing address, you cannot win. Of course, you can still comment if you like. I will use that random integer program doo-dad to generate a number, and I will announce the winner by 3 pm February 1st. That’s tomorrow for all of you who, like me, normally have no idea what the date is.
And fear not! There will be more giveaways coming. I will likely stick to needle arts supplies, and I will try to highlight WAHM wares. So if you make something beautiful for knitters and crocheters and would like some advertising for the low cost of a donated prize item, let me know!
Thank you all so much for participating, and for entertaining me. And I do hope you’ll be back to follow me shamelessly using my dysfunction as writing fodder. I am so relieved to find I am not the only one who hides in the bathroom, and I cannot wait to try knitting in the bathtub.
Well, here it is: the first Fiber Friday giveaway. I decided to donate my own handiwork to the cause and offer up this lusciously soft, hand-painted 100Purewool 3-ply yarn. If you aren’t familiar with Purewool, they are a wonderful supplier of Uruguayan hand dyed merino and corriedale wool yarns in a variety of weights and some really fun colorways. This was a natural three ply yarn that I hand painted in shades of eggplant, brown, maroon, orange, and some purples and blues.
It knits up beautifully, as you can see in the photo below. It seems that when I paint yarn I always love it so much I have to keep some for myself. This skein is worsted weight at 218 yards and 3.5 ounces. One skein would probably do a pair of shorties (hint, hint!) or some fun baby hats and booties. Or you could actually knit something for yourself for a change. Be decadent. You’re worth it.
Or maybe not, what do I know?
So here’s the scoop: Leave me a comment telling me the weirdest place you’ve found yourself knitting or crocheting. I’ll tell you mine: on a bus in NYC after a day of kicking around town. My baby was attached to my breast. I’m a multitasker, what can I say?
And you don’t win by being the weirdest. I already occupy that spot.
Instead, I will choose the winner from both entries by randomly drawing a name from the empty bucket of Sam’s Club cheese balls that I finished off the other night.
I promise not to get artificial cheese powder on your yarn.
I’ll announce the winner next Friday, February 6. Comments will close at 8 p.m. Thursday, February 5. Please note this contest is for U.S. Shipping addresses ONLY. Pass it on!
Norwegian Wood Hand Painted Yarn: Sheepy Pants
Sheepy Pants in Norwegian Wood
If you don’t know about Sheepy Pants, go check them out. It is absolutely the best pattern out there. Amanda Harrington (the awesome designer) does an excellent job of explaining all the different techniques, including the kitchener stitch.
Knitting in a tent in the dark. That’s the strangest place for me. Waiting for my baby to nurse to sleep when we’re camping, I feel compelled to keep my fingers busy since I’m wide awake.
Beautiful yarn, btw.
I’d love to knit it up!
Joya
Los Angeles
I forgot to say I like knitting while walking. It’s rhythmic and therapeutic. Plus, it usually freaks people out, and makes me laugh. Sometimes you can even put the yarn around your wrist, like a bracelet, freeing up your elbows for a more natural gait.
Thanks again! This is fun!!
Joya
Well, I’m not sure if it’s weird, but I’ve knit at the shuttle stop. I got some strange looks, but I don’t think that’s too weird.
In a waiting room. If I know I am going to have to sit somehwere for a few minutes I always bring it with me.
This probably isn’t very weird, but I knit at my children’s sporting events and classes.
Behind the counter, working as a car rental agent at an airport
I’ve crocheted on an interstate Amtrak trip!
I wish I knew how to knit but I taught myself how to crochet during my past pregnancy. I brought it with me everywhere, the car, at my daughter’s school, the doctor’s, the mall, chick-fil-a, and when my contractions were mild during labor and delivery
no place really weird, at home, at doctors offices, sitting in the van waiting on kids, on an airplane, in Germany on a trip…thanks!!! Beautiful yarn!
My weirdest palce would be in the hospital after having my c-section with my last baby. It was actually crocheting. I was crocheting beads on socks and one of the nusres thought that it was so neat that I would do that for my baby, that she brought in all the bedspread yarn she had and gave it to me.
BTW I love hand painted yarn!
I usually crochet in my living room, but when I had to stay off my feet while pregnant with my youngest(6yrs. ago) i crocheted in bed. It was quite borring
ktistinajoy76@hotmail.com
I am the world’s worst knitter but I do enhoy doing it. I have knitted at home and on the plane.
What do you think about left handed knitting?
http://www.okathleen.wordpress.com
I take my knitting everywhere….I tend to be pretty boring. Actually one time a bunch of us met to craft at a photography studio! Other than that my car, hotel, dr’s office. Thanks for the chance.
I don’t knit or crochet, my mom does and I would love to win this for my mom. She seems to crochet everywhere.
=) melanie
melanieadey at hotmail dot com
I have knit following behind (on foot) my daughter on her horse. I am afraid of horses so the knitting keeps me calm. I have knit standing in line, in labor rooms, on planes, waiting in restaurants but my goal is to knit well enough to knit at the movies!
Ugh. I went to your etsy shop to see if there were skeins available just to buy b/c I LOVE the way this looks knit up, and seriously, what are the chances of winning?… but it looks like I have to comment!
The weirdest place? I don’t know… what constitutes weird? I knit or crochet everywhere. I guess the one that comes to mind is that a couple of years ago knit-in-public day fell on a weekend I was very pregnant and out camping. I sat outside my tent and knit. I don’t know that it was really “public” since no one was there to see it (if a woman knits in the woods and there’s no one there to hear it…
but I did my best!
The weirdest place I have knitted is in the car, in the hospital, in a doctors office and on a airplane. I love all kinds of yarn but I guess i don’t knit in many different places that are exciting.
I take my knitting just about everywhere. The weirdest is probably in the dentist’s chair during a cleaning. The dentist and her assistant were amazed that I didn’t have to look at the work to do it–it was plain stocking stitch knit in the round, so it was easy to do.
I knit while out walking the dog.
mfritzmanolio(AT)gmail.com
Your yarn looks so very nice and who wouldn’t luv to have some of that so I’m entering. I guess on the back porch, I know not too wierd a place but I coukldnt think of anything else.Please enter me and thank you!
ffbbcourtney(at)hotmail.com
Like a lot of others, I knit any and everywhere. I knit during chiropractic adjustments, in Costco, in the tub. Not so weird, I guess.
I love to take my knitting with me. I have been seen knitting in airports, waiting rooms, road trips, and while I have long incubations on late nights at work.
It is a toss up between during labor at the hospital recently or during church service lol. I help with the sound (when I’m not on stage singing) and really needed this project finished.. I was paying attention I promise! Of course I knit sometimes during Sunday school class for the Teens my husband teaches. :p
I am new to knitting…so the only place I have knitted is at home…I am afraid someone will ask me what I am making…;O]~most of the time it starts out as one thing and ends up as something else. lol
I knitted on a mountain top in Greece! It was a blast–very zen.
Like many others, I can’t think of a ‘weirdest’ place, because I knit EVERYWHERE! A strange one was one day while I was driving to work I got stuck in a terrible traffic jam due to an accident, and since I was not going anywhere, I just put my car in park, grabbed my knitting bag, and worked away on a pair of socks. I was probably the most relaxed person in rush hour that morning!
In a plane. Perfect to pass time. Thank you for the giveaway.
On a 19 ft fishing boat. I was bored.
Am I too late?
In line and all around DISNEYLAND! Yes I know it’s the happiest place on earth, but the lines on Jan 1 were terrible! and I’m prego so I couldn’t go on any of the fun rides anyway, so I pulled out my bag and finished a soaker and started a new one! Not bad for a day’s wait.
The weirdest place I’ve ever knitted is in front of the TV. I just don’t knit outside of my home and I like to be focused. Sorry it isn’t much!
I’m pretty new to crocheting so the weirdest spot so far is in my car while waiting for my daughter to get out of preschool. I even ball most of my yarn there as well (I often get weird looks as people are walking by wondering what the heck I’m doing… lol).
i tried to knit and drive… it did’t work, i have been known to sit in the car when the kids are asleep and knit till they wakeup. i have knit in checkoutlines
The weirdest place I have knitted is in the car. I knit pretty much anywhere that I am sitting down (waiting rooms, hospitals, relative’s homes, etc.). But I really don’t go to too many places. Thanks for having this contest. Your blog is great!
hmmm, the oddest place I have knitted or crocheted? Well now that needles could be considered dangerous the airplace is becoming an odd place…
no, I’d have to say it was when I set up a tent on campus to help with a recycling campaign. YES, knitting while camped out on a tent on campus.
Thank you so much for holding this contest, and good luck to all of the entrants!
I only crochet at home.
In the subway is the weirdest, standing up, shoulder to shoulder… an the other passengers giving me nasty looks…
The weirest place was in a German hospital. I was stuck in a bed with only German TV. What else was I to do?
Ooh what fun yarn. I have knitted a ton of places but I can’t think of one that is terribly weird. But here are some of the spots I have knitted or crocheted: In Bible college, traveling, in a courtroom, camping, in an airplane, while playing games, oh you know just about everywhere. I did a lot of it while breastfeeding too but not while on a bus.
I would have to say in either the library or the doctor’s office. Neither is very strange, but I’m not that interesting, either!
on the floor in the bathroom (we were potty training and she would sit for a long time!!)
Now when my husband was stationed in europe for a few months I would knit, read a book and watch tv (I read during commercials) while sitting on the couch. It drove my roommate crazy, she couldn’t believe I could do all three at once
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Heather – I copied the comment you left on the CYA post. I figured you were trying to enter the contest and I didn’t want you left out
“i tried to knit and drive… it didn’t work. so now i sit inthe driverseat when the kids are sleeping when we get home. i have been known to knit in the checkout line.”