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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)
Connor and Maeve immediately caught my eye. I've been wanting to make a light spring sweater with pocket and hood for my special little guy, BUT Maeve looks positively good enough to eat! I might even make something for myself with that... something I've never ever done before. What great colors, all of them! It was really hard to choose.
I have to say, as much as I love all the vibrant colors, I like Maura the best. I think it would make a lovely shawl, or perhaps a slouchy beret, or even a cardigan. I love how it looks like watercolors all running together.
I can't choose just 1. Love Maura, Grady, and Alana. I would make socks, of course!
I love Jack, also Kate.....honestly I loved most of them great choices! C'mon spring.
Clare. It was a hard decision.
thanks
Billie
It was very hard to choose just one, but I finally did it after looking at the spring lookbook for almost an hour! I have a newborn son and would make a bulletproof wool soaker for him out of the colorway Jack.
Such beautiful new colorways and the book is absolutely adorable. Great job and thanks for the generosity through this contest!
All of them! Any of them! (I'm sorry, am I drooling?)
But no, if I had to choose only one, it would be Maura. So lovely and soft and springlike, and just asking to be made into a versatile lightweight springtime cardigan or wrap...
oooh, tough choice! I think I have to go with Maeve, for a Spider Web Shawl from VLT.
They are all gorgeous! Thanks for the chance to win them!
I can't believe it - I just joined Ravelry half an hour ago, and now I'm entering a contest for beautiful yarn. Can it get any better?
I think I would make a cheery lace scarf with Clare!
Connor, and it would make a beautiful skirty here in our household!!! I love to see the more boyish colorways all girlified!
They are all gorgeous, but I think my favorite is Maeve. Beautiful!
Oh Sharon! All the new colorways make me swoon! You can almost feel them on your needles! Brava!
Niall, Alana, Maura, Connor, Clare and Kate....oh heck, all are equally beautiful and call out to be knit into something cozy for my brand-new, very first grandchild, the lovely Arianne, born February 22nd.
Keep up the fabulous work!
Clare is gorgeous! And my grandmother's favorite blend of colors. She'll be 82 this December and it's only fitting I make her a shawl or stole out of it. It'd be like a great big hug she could carry around with her since I don't get to see her as often as I like, being so far away now.
I want "Kate" to be a skirtie for my daughter. It just jumped out at me as soon as I saw it. I love when a colorway does that!
I love Conner too, for longies.
I would pick Maura, without a doubt. I love a whole bunch of the new colorways, but Maura rocks the house. And I would make something just for me with it....I'm thinking a Starfish Shawl by Norah Gaughan. The colors in Maura are just so calming and classy. I love it.
Ian, I would make something nice for my DS. I've not had the pleasure or knitting with really good wool as of yet.
I need to bring Cian home with me because Cian is the only yellow I'll ever love. Deep and bright, but not brash.
I'd knit a lacy summer top.
I'm a green girl, and so both Erin and Devin called to me like the siren song of a selkie. However, there's just something about the men in your life, isn't there? Brady & Conner kind of make me lustful. I never knew blue could be so wonderful until I saw those two paired together. Jack comes flying out at me though, with his peacock-like tail. His tiger-lily beauty is gorgeous too, and I'd never mind taking him home as well. ;)
In a perfect world, Brady, Conner and Jack would all comes live at my house, where I'd sit eating grapes while petting them all day.
But this isn't a fantasy. In reality, Jack would be made of McClellan Fingering, and his hint of bamboo would make him a perfect lacy shawl to wrap around myself on cool summer nights. Actually, if he was made of any fingering weight yarn I'd be happy.
What a wonderful giveaway contest!
I would love to knit up Maeve into three baby sweaters: 1 for my baby, 1 for my best friend's baby who is just a few months younger and the third for a friend who previously lost a baby late in pregnancy and is now 7 months pregnant and very hopeful.
I love them all, but cian caught my eye. It needs to be some kicky socks!
Cian, Cian, Cian! I'd knit myself fingerless gloves to wear in my cold, gray cubicle inside my windowless office...they'd be a perfect reminder that Spring is just outside.
Ahhhh how do I love these let me count the ways. So many choices...so little time. Okay...back against the wall, bright light glaring directly into my eyes...heavy breathing from strong-armed Yarnistas in the shadows growling..."choose!"
Ian
How can I pass up those gorgeous blue/golds/wheaten loveliness that would match my chino jacket so perfectly! I'd knit something to match this jacket then maybe I'd wear said jacket a bit more often. It makes me happy...all blue and bright and fresh. My signature blue.
I am completely smitten with Jack...he wants me to snuggle him...and that would involve a cowl I think... or a neckwarmer with mitts to match...yummy!
I always feel silly entering these things, just because I feel like I'm asking for "something for nothing", but the colors are just so beautiful and appear to be just what I've been searching for.. I expect that I'll be placing an order soon!
I have been dying to make somethng for one of my daycare boys who is having an especially hard time right now. His mother has had many health problems for years and has recently been in and out of the hospital constantly.. the boy himself, Liam, is 2 and a half and is constantly going in and out of doctors offices for tests himself. (He shakes constantly and gets hives..)
At first I thought - I will knit something for the mother. But the mother is the sort who is happier to see her little one receive a gift.. I, therefore, would like to knit socks for Liam.
Why socks? Because Liam's the only child in the daycare center that ever keeps his on, and if they even begin to slip off of his feet, he starts to get upset, saying his feet are cold. Socks, therefore, are a must for little Liam.
The color I would pick for this is Devin.
I choose Devin because it screams spring and happiness to me.. a color like that is, clearly, the best for any occasion, but especially when attempting to brighten someone elses day.