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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 would love to have enough of Connor or Jack to make Longies for my baby boy coming April 28th.... but I would also love enough of Brady to make myself a sweater!
I would pick Grady because it is just so wonderfully retro. It reminds me of hanging out at my grandmama's house with her gold starburst clock and her shag rugs. It's warm and cozy. Of course, I love green, turquoise and teal so Erin would be a close second. It's refreshing!
Top three colorways: Jack, for a "Hit the Road, Jack" sweater (hoody?); Cameron, for a Hot Shawl for my cool California nights, and Cian for Wendy Johnson's collaborative "Sunflower" socks...ooh, ooh, wait, Niall just popped into my head as a beaded KIRI shawl... I need all 18! sigh...
Cian - A lacey, drapey, cardigan.
I can't decide b/t Maeve and Kate. All of them are beautiful. I'm a novice knitter, so I may have to have someone help me make it into something worthy of such yarn yumminess.
i really like Conner and Devin, but Niall wants to come home with me the most.
and i would make socks. i love socks.
((((gasp))))) Do I have to pick one? I love the play of colors in Jack. I think it needs to be a Morning Surf wrap so that those wondrous colors and dance all over the knit canvas.
Thanks for the yarn porn :)
Tanya
My favorite colorway is Jack. I would love to make a pair of shorties and matching scarf for me from it. Absolutely gorgeous colors.
I would choose Jack, and i would make my mother a beautiful sweater with it, it has all her favorite colors in it, and she has had a hard year and is now in hospice, and i know it would make her smile so that is what i would make a sweater for my mom:)
What a difficult decision. I have it narrowed down to 6 after 4 views of the pictures. Cian interests me because it's so beautiful and it's a color I never consider buying. The others are beautiful colors but in colorways that I am generally drawn to:
devin, niall, connor, jack, madigan. I'm not sure how to narrow this down to one. Cian would be perfect for the sunray cowl or shawl.
And I'd love to try making the orca tale scarf with connor.
I could I choose? If I had to choose just one, I would choose Clare. All of your colorways are amazing, and the styling for photos shows them off soooo well. Congratulations!
i would love to use clare to make a lovely spring shrug!
the greens in devin are gorgeous - it's hard to choose!!
I totally love Cameron...I normally don't love oranges, but I really like the depth and darkness of the colors in Cameron. I would most definitely make a tote bag...felted. And, although I would REALLY want to keep it for myself, I would give it to my mama for her birthday!
Naturally, it would have to be Maura, because that's my youngest daughter's name--spelled the same, too! Now you just need to name a color after our dog, Caoimhe! (What would I knit with and for Maura? Probably a funky hat, because that would fit my artistic Maura's sensibilities!)
I would love to take Fionn home and reincarnate him as a long wavy scarf or stole in a flowy lace pattern. He's a really lovely colour!
(I draw an online comic (Hero) and Fionn is the exact shade of blue of the mysterious scarf that the "hero" wears :))
Connor. It's outside of my usual knitting color range, but I would knit a pair of socks for my middle daughter. These are her favorite colors, and she spent her own money on a pair of clear Converse in order to show off the socks I knit her...
I love Kate and grady. Grady would be a sweater for my son most definitely. I can see Kate as a dress.
I would drop whatever I was doing, and knit maeve into socks, and wear them, was them, and wear them again! Beautiful yarns!
Jack just calls to me--I can see it as a simple shawl for sure, where the colour does all the work (and gets all the glory)!
But all so gorgeous!
Wow, talk about tough choices! I would gladly let any of those beautiful colors follow me home. Forced to choose, though, I choose
Maeve
What a great contest!
I think I would have to go with Alana.. though it's closely followed by several others..!
I'm thinking Alana would be nice as either a soft, light spring cowl or scarf, or maybe a pair of socks with a defined pattern, like Cookie A's Marlene. :>
It would also be great as an airy shawl for viewing the cherry blossoms!
Connor.
I love your fabu color sense, but Connor rocks, and would make a splendid hat, and as those are some of the colors i dye the tips of my hair in, think how fabu it would look!!!
Ta - Joan
Well, a tough choice, but I'd say Niall. What would I make? Hmm, I'd love a scarf of some kind in it. I wouldn't want to hide those wonderful colors away!
Cian.
Socks or maybe a hat.