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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)
Kieran for me - I'd use it for a sweater for my son 'cause he looks fantastic in those colours. I don't know how I'd manage to restrain myself, but I think I'd wait until September, then find a lake somewhere in the Canadian shield. I'd plonk myself down by it and start knitting - 'cause Kieran reminds me of those glorious fall colours...I know, I know, this is the SPRING collection!
Gorgeous colors! I would probably love to have Jack for a pair of long pants for my little one, or perhaps a lacy cardigan with Clare.
I just love Brady. The blue violet shades will be perfect for a sweater for my 4 months old baby.
I absolutely adore Clare! I would make a lacy scarf, something that would show it off to the MAX! Just Gorgeous!
(Okay, Erin is pretty gorgeous too!)
oh my goodness! i would love to work with each and every one of these and could find a purpose for each. currently most of my knitting is for my baby girl so i'll focus there.
A "Swing Thing" coat out of "Clare"
A "Cowgirl Butterfly Astronaut Vest" out of "Connor"
Hah, thinking you might get only 100 entries, and you posted on Ravelry? You must be joking!
All of your colors are just amazing. Niall is calling to me from this bunch. I think I'd make either Cairdeas or a Cookie A sock pattern. Maybe Ornette or Trystero.
I think I know where my next paycheck is going...
I've been admiring your yarn in Ravelry ads for so long!
I can't decide between Erin and Cian ; because Erin has all the colors I love in one skein, and Cian because I've recently acquired a love of all things gold/yellow.
What I make depends on the yarn...with Erin, I would definitely make a top or sweater of some sort...maybe a lace summer tee. With Cian, an accessory, like cabled gloves.
First I have to compliment you on all of your beautiful yarns! Thanks for luring me over here, I am drooling over my keyboard by now...
As to the yarn, I have two favourites.
The first would be Erin, which would be the touch of spring in my outfit for the next months- I'd make some fingerless gloves and a nice beret, which in Holland can be worn for quite some time into May :D
The other one is Niall, with which I'd love to do a shrug, to compliment one of my summer dresses for those cooler evenings. I think the colour is just stunning, and will help the make-shift solution to look like the perfect combination.
xx
I loved them all. Specially; Cameron and kieran.
I want all of them :)
I love the photography. I'd have to say Keiran is the colourway I find most appealing (though all are lovely). From a single skein I'd probably make a scarf with a candle light lace pattern: enough blank areas to show off the yarn, but something more than just a plane of fabric.
Oh man!! I have been drooling over your look book for days now. I love Kate, and Maeve, and all of them really, but I would love to get a skein of Madigan. i would make a hat/mittens set for my friends daughter, who it just so happens shares her name with that scrumptious yarn. :D I linked her to your lookbook, and she totally got a kick out of it.
Cameron....loving the combo of oranges with the purple & green. I would make myself a yummy, scrunchy scarf!! And maybe the baby would get a hat!
Goodness! Just one? I truly love each and every one but to pick only one - I would choose Niall, the combination of blue and purple is sophisticated, classic /timeless to be knit up as a stole - no a cowl - no socks - no.... ;)
(Love the look book and the colorways)
There are so many I really like but I would have to choose Madigan. I really like mosaic effects and the colors used, As winter is coming up here I would make some fingerless gloves and a bow tie scarf.
Fabulous pictures... love the photography on them. Cian is definitely my favorite. I'd love to make a bright cheery scarf with it as I don't have any yellow scarves at all and it's perfect for the start of spring!
Niall, definitely. I think I'd keep it simple with a garter yoked cardigan.
I love the picture of Maura!!
But my favorite colorway (so hard to choose just one) is Cameron. So cheerful! I think it would make a wonderful short sleeved cardigan.
A very close second is Niall, which I would use for a hoodie with just a bit of cables. Something like Rogue, maybe.
To pick only one, I'd have to go with the "Clare" colourway (it's also my real name, though with a slight spelling change).
Colours like that deserve to be made into long gloves with much cablework, to properly show it off!
hey.. came here thru ravelry..
I love Erin.. and definitely an elegant shawl with it!
Awesome photography!
My favorite is the Clare. I would knit it into a skinny scarf or a wrap.
thank you for being so generous!
Alana would be knee-high socks. It is lovely!
I'm getting ready to do a phoenix inspired sock-along in April so Kieran for socks would be perfect!
So many enticing colorways!
Gorgeous colours, but I would choose Jack and make the funkiest socks ever!
Devin would make the most wonderfull lacy shawl. Love all the colors.
I have fallen for Maguire, Fionn, and Cara. Gorgeous colours and I could use a bit of calm in my life just about now.