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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 absolutely love the colorway, "Erin." Khaki, olive green and blues are my favorite colors (they make my hair look even redder)!
I would make a wrap or stole.
Maura! Such lovely, subtle colors. Yum! And I'd made a hat that highlighted them all! All my hats are too boring, I think sometimes.
mmm, that last one on the plate looks so yummy!
Maeve is my favorite. I would make The Helena cardigan from Knitty with it for my baby girl :)
Maura... or Jack... or Clare... Who could decide? They are all so lovely.
Clever idea! I adore Alana, absolutely adore it. What a romantic colorway! I couldn't find yarn weight/gauge information anywhere, but I see this yarn as a small shawl - Shapely Shawlette, perhaps? Who wouldn't feel beautiful wearing this?
They are all so beautiful, but if I could only pick one, I suppose it would be Niall, the blues are so comforting. I would make comfy socks to wear with blue jeans.
I'm envisioning some kind of lacy phoenix shawl in Kieran.... all those flame-coloured feathers, mmmm.
Well, at first I was going to say the Kate, for obvious reasons.
But then I saw the Devin, and it is gorgeous! I've been looking for a great green to make a newsboy cap, so thats what I would make!
I would turn Jack into a pair of shorties for my son to wear this summer. I also like Erin, but I think Jack would go with his collection of little boy shirts better. Thanks!
Erin. I think the greens are wonderful, and have something in mind that would be perfect for it....
Easy. Jack wants to live here and become a vest for my little son. :) The colors are perfection!
A Cara in a blue-green? That's the one I'd want! Longies or shorties for one of my little ones. Pretty pictures!
I'd go with the cover girl, Maura. I think I'd make a pillow cover, of all things! I like relaxing, peaceful colors in my home.
I would bring home Grady! That is a family name and I would make DS a hooded cardigan with it.
Hi Sharon,
My favorite of all of the new colorways is definitely Kate. I dig the contrast in colors. I would love to make a lacy scarf for myself. :)
I would pick Kate and I would make something for my daughter. Probably capris. They would be beautiful on her.
I really like Kieran, it's absolutely beautiful!
And I'd make fingerless gloves with matching socks! And it would already match half my wardrobe!
I would choose Clare. And in my perfect knitting world, it would become the most amazing, soft, warm, comfy cardigan ever! :-D
All of the colors are so lovely, though, to be honest. It's so hard to choose a favorite; I want all of them! :-)
Ian Jack adn Grady call to me.. I would have to make a shawl or a sweater with those lovely colors.
I like Alana best. I see a warm lacy crocheted shawl to wrap up in with a cup of tea and good book. I make so many things for other people; this one would be to spoil just me.
I would choose to use Brady in a February Lady Sweater for myself.
I love to cuddle with knitted wraps/shawls, I wear them everywhere. By using either Kate or Alana, I could make a beautiful wrap to take to a work event that I have coming up. I would be the envy of all my co-workers.
Niall would come with me (well temporarily). My mom was recently diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer. February 9th she had a mastectomy and in 3 weeks she starts Chemotherapy. Niall is her "colors" (her whole house is blue...), so I would knit it into as many little noggin covers for her as I could get out it.
I'm torn between Kate and Clare but I do know what I'd make with them. I'm making a Barn Raising Blanket using all different types of sock yarn and these would definitely be in(I have already made a couple squares with the Rhiannon colorway).