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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 love them all and it is hard to chose but I would have to chose Maeve. I'd love to see how a pair of glittens would look in it. thanks for doing this. it's fun.
I'd have to go with Devin - I am all about green lately - I wouls knit myself a flower basket shawl with - I really could use some green to go with my new bright red spring jacket!
WOW! Choosing one is nearly impossible!! They are all gorgeous!! However, if I had to choose just one I would choose Ian and I would make a cardigan or vest for my son to wear to first grade in the fall!! Of course if you forced me to knit for myself I would have to choose Devin and make a scarf or shawl!! They are ALL truly beautiful!! You are such an artist!!
I would choose Kieran!!! Lovely and buoyant.
Now for the hard question: hmmmm.... So many projects I want to do. I would like to make the lovely 'Owls' jumper I found on Needled (blog). Don't know if that would be the ideal yarn necessarily, but I love the colour and I love that jumper!! (sweater for you Americans!)
Cameron is my favourite - I love so many colours and it has a little bit of everything. I've been itching to do some lace knitting (first time in 30+ years of knitting), so I would use Cameron to make a lacy scarf.
I really like Maura and I would like to make Cairdeas because although I haven't made that many socks, this yarn is begging me to make that pattern
I love maeve (but I loved all of them....) and I would knit a scarf or socks.
Love love love.
Well done.
clare
What fantastic spring colours, and so difficult to choose just one.....so it would have to be Maeve or Madigan (or.....!). Either would make beautiful socks or a lovely lacy spring scarf to keep the chilly wind at bay!
So many wonderful yarns to choose from but Jack just had to be my favorite! With the gorgeous shades of green with tipped with yellows and orange it reminds me of a spring sunrise over the green mountains. In a perfect world I'd love to make the most beautiful wrap to wear in the
chilly morning and mirror the sun waking up the new day!!!
I would pick Maeve and make a pair of socks for my niece with the same name
Leslie
So hard to choose just one! Okay, I'll go with Alana, I love the subtle tones. Maybe in a sweet summer top, or possibly lacy socks.
Oh my, so many comments already...
I absolutely love Niall and Erin (and all the others.. but those just a little bit more). As I am on an immense lace knitting spree lately, I'd make something lacy :)
Niall would be lovely as a summer cardigan and Erin would make a great lacy shawl.
Just one? really?
I'd pick devin, and make a lovely wrap to cuddle with on chilly evenings...
or cian, and stare at it in a beautiful glass vase for about six months, then knit it into some fingerless mitts when it starts getting cold again and i need the cheery color closer!
I woulwd have to pick the Niall - the purple blue-y one - because to me, it looks like iris flowers.
and in a perfect world, there would be enough to make my daughter and myself both a pair of socks - because we have one dedicated IP address here, so she can't enter, as well.
your colors are lovely - and this would be such a wonderful stash of yarn to send with my daughter as she goes off to college in the fall! (with a couple kept for me, of course)
I would have to pick Maeve... resembles my name, the color is beautiful... but they are all beautiful... In a perfect world I'd have them al
Kate - something for me!
Alana - definitely Alana! And I'd make something huggable. A pillow cover or a lovely scarf. Those colours are just lovely.
I'm a Connor girl, I guess -- the green makes it pop! I can see a sweater in it of some sort -- or a lacy scarf.
Erin! I love those wonderful green hues!
OMG !!!! You ask me to pick 1???? That's like asking me which of my kids is my fav. I've got the shakes just looking at them all.
Here goes...
ERIN a shawl for me but then there's KATE - (chocolate- raspberry coffee is my favorite coffee)and she screams out that I need a cover for my french press coffee maker (and socks for me too).
And then there's CONNOR and NIALL with their blues and purples and lilacs and OMG they are both begging to be socks and live at my house.
And MAEVE!!!!!!! My fav author is Maeve Binchey. I'd need to have her as a ruana.
So now I'm supposed to choose one? one????
NIALL.sigh, very big sigh
I've narrowed it down to Grady or Cian. They are all beautiful though. This is like picking out a favorite child! After making hats and scarves for several friends, I think it's time I made a set for myself, although another friend would likely be the recipient. Grady's chololate, coffee and cafe au lait colors are gorgeous, yet manly (as are Maeve, Maura and Madrigan) and Cian would make the perfect Koolhaas hat for someone at work,
jack and claire, socks and shawl.
I'm not predictable. Not at all.
( the fact this made a couplet is purely accidental!)
Maura, Maeve, Maguire! Gorgeous! Thanks for the chance to enter your contest.
It seems incredibly unfair to have to pick just one and I can't do it! But I adore Erin (my daughter's name) and Clare (my mom's name) and Jack (just because!) And all the others - sigh- are gorgeous also!
Ellen