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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, so hard to choose. But since I had to choose one, it would have to be Cian, because I usually hate yellow but I am strangely drawn to this bright sunny yarn. I would make a lace shawl out of it to brighten up my very dull wardrobe.
Well I am not a knitter/crocheter, but I have people that are! I LOVE Maura. It is stunning. I would have a cute little cropped sweater made for my daughter. Perfect for those cool spring nights or over her little dresses this summer!
Thank you! Awesome Job!
~Sam
Lovely! My favorite is definitely Clare.
Choose! I have to choose! That is impossible! I want them all!
I guess if I had to pick one or two to start with it would be:
Erin- I think I'd tackle my first pair of socks in Erin, love the colors.
and
Kate- really I just want enough to cover my craft room so I can roll around in it but I guess enough to make a pair of thick warm mittens would be a good place to start!
and
Maeve- I don't know what I'd do with it but it looks good enough to eat. I'd probably end up petting it a lot!
I am in love with Niall! The colors make me think of irises or hydrangeas (two of my favorite sorts of flowers).
I think that I'd make a nice simple sweater with it. It's so beautiful and understated.
The images are amazing, just enjoying looking at them all. I love the brown and pink combo of Kate for a lovely cardigan. Surprising to me (I usually go for the loud look), the Maguire, Fionn and Cara are really my favorites - would love to make a shawl in the gradations of color.
all your colors are luscious! so hard to pick one. niall is my colors and as a certified sock addict, i would make socks for ME! greedy thing, yes! or i can see a lovey scarf.
your photography is wonderful and truly made me want each and every one of those colors.
I definitely like Maeve the best--it's the perfect blend of dark and light. It reminds me of those candy-coated chocolate eggs I used to get for Easter.
My favorite is Maura, just so subtle and pretty colors...
I would make a sweater/tank for early spring wearing.
I think Niall would make a beautiful shawl but then so would Devin and.....lots of beautiful choices!
I love grady.
Do I HAVE to make something with it, or can I just admire it and pet it and make it my own.......
Ooooh - Erin. So, so pretty. I'm thinking a nice open and airy spring scarf. It would really dress up my denim jacket!
Also, Grady is drool-worthy. My husband would love if I knit him up a hat out of that. :)
I LOVE Madigan, Burgundy is one of my favorite colors and I love the way the light blue shines through. I think it would look lovely in a pair of Bronte's mitts.
I would use maeve and knit River Rock Scarf
by Sivia Harding .
KATE! Kate is my favorite; I love it. I would make myself a sweater, a selfish selfish sweater... maybe a shrug.
If I had to choose just one, I would choose Erin. With it, I would make a pair of hand warmers for a wonderful British girl named Erin who will soon be moving to the States to marry my friend Matty. Living in New England, our winters are much snowier than she's used to!
Hard choice. All of the skeins are beautiful!
Ive got a big irish wedding coming up this spring and would LOVE to make a clapotis for it with your delicious yarn!
Mmmmm, I love Kate, Clare and Maeve but if I had to choose JUST one, it would be Maeve!
Thanks for offering this generous giveaway!!
I of course...love them ALL! However am very partial to Kate, Devin and Kieran. They're all just really wonderful visually and I'm dying to pet them
:-)
I *need* a sweater's worth of Brady. It is the perfect blue-violet. If I was a cruel person, I would knit my cat a sweater in Grady, because she's a calico and that yarn matches her to a T. ;)
Wow! Everything's so gorgeous! If I have to choose, I'd love to make a February Baby sweater for my daughter out of Kate!
LOL if you'd asked me this time last year, I'd have said I'd make a skirt-soaker for her, but she potty trained herself in the last few weeks!
the page shuts down, but I love the colours on this page. Do not have a homepage, but your yarns inspire for my next dying session :-)
In a perfect knitting universe I would bring home Maura and knit Bellocq stockings.
Wow! Happy Spring to you, too! Such a lovely offer and wonderful photos to showcase your yarns.
Kieran really caught my eye--and would make a beautiful shawl to compliment my newly red hair! Or socks, one can never have enough hand-knit socks!
Niall would make a beautiful sweater for my blue-eyed boyfriend.
And Erin and Devin I love because I love greens and blues ... for more socks!
Thank you for the opportunity to enter. :)
I have to say I'm in love with Kate (which has the perfect name), Jack and Ian. I'd use Kate to knit myself the perfect hat - it would go wonderfully with my new coat! Jack is begging to be a my so called scarf. Ian is beautiful, and if I had enough, would make a lovely sweater for my husband.
They are all so beautiful!
I would choose Maura (it's so close to my name it had to be the one, lol) because I love the muted colors.
It looks super soft so I'd make fingerless mitts that are as long as possible so I could feel the yarn and look at them all day while making sure my hands don't freeze at work.