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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)
*Sigh* Ah, Madigan, how I love thee! Your siblings, they are beautiful and fair, but you, my dear, are the most lovely. Think of what a pair we would make: you, as a lovely cami top, and me, going to work. Delightful, no?
Jack is telling me he wants to be a febuary lady sweter. Or shalom. Something like that
I have two favorites--Maeve (I purchased a skein from you two weeks ago and have been drooling over it ever since) and Clare (love pinks and bright jewel tones!).
In the Maeve.....probably socks, or a feather-and-fan type shawl, to show off the color variation. In Clare--a sweater, likely a cardigan with some lace and cable work in it.
KATE! oh how i loooooooooooooooooove kate. i would make some awesomely awesome socks with that yarn (i'm on a sock kick right now!).
Niall is fabulous, a shawl, or maybe a sweater. I just want to pet it.
Jack is my favorite. I think Jack wants to be a pair of leg warmers to be worn with a fancy little black dress and tall heels...
My favorite yarn from your Spring Look Book is Clare. I just designed a gorgeous spring scarf with a diamond chart and picot edge that I think would knit up fabulously in Clare. Your yarn colorways are lovely!
I feel ill with desire: I may have to go and lie down in a darkened room for a while (and stroke some angora).
I think right now I'd take... Niall, and turn it into a cardigan (skill level permitting - but we can all dream) for my oldest daughter. These are her colors. And she has few nice things that she hasn't grown out of. And she deserves some artefact of maternal love. And some inspiration for her own beginning knitting (I see her making fingerless mittens with the magically sufficient leftovers).
Ahhh, in real life I'd be more likely to make the fingerless mitts, and perhaps a cowl. But stop: I'm getting carried away. Quick: to the darkened room!
Maura - I think for the colors, but also the photo
Niall
wow -actually I love all of the blues & greens and the dark reds - absolutely gorgeous!
the yarns are so beautiful....
How is a body supposed to choose just one? I am in love with Kieran and Kate equally!
i WANT maeve...and i would NOT make anything with it...right away. i would just twist it around my fingers and stare at it for a long, long time. with a really expensive piece of chocolate sitting next to me...but not eating it for fear of choco-fying maeve.
I would love to knit the decimal cardigan from the latest Knitty in Alana.........
I would have to say I would love to adopt and bring Niall home with me. So I can pet it and smoosh it and let me tell ya it was a tough choice!
I am still rather new to all of the fibery goodness that is out there, so there are many fibers that I have not even touched yet, just seen piccies.
I have a dream of making the Clapotis that I see favorited all over Ravelry, I think this would be the perfect blending of colors for that project. Ahhh, now I have a daydream sitting in the back of head of doing just that.........Here is to wishing!
I think it would be lovely to be able to make 2 of them really, so that I could send one to Vandy from Ravelry to drape around herself like a big hug. She is fighting breast cancer and I think she is so brave and loving and wonderful. She has these huge gorgeous eyes and I think that shade would look gorgeous on her.....I feel so lucky to count her as a friend.
Definately the Niall for me, I would love to make a shawl from it. Or some socks...or...when can I buy some of that again??
Kitsa
All of your yarn is beautiful, but my favorite is Cian. It reminds me of yellow iris in the spring time. I would make a light, short sleeve pullover style top. Mostly stocking knit, but the fact that the yarn is tonal, rather than different colors would allow for some nice texturing as well.
Love, love, LOVE all of the colors! My favorite would have to be Kieran. I would make a shrug for me--who wouldn't love to be so bold and beautiful in the gorgeous colors!
The colorways are beautiful and whoever composed the settings and did the photography is to be highly commended......a real keeper! Hard to choose but I think Niall is understated elegance personified. A pair of socks or a scarf would be a treat to knit!
Jack would make a beautiful sweater or a lovely wrap so I can wear it for all occasions!
After looking at the preview, I'd have to say that Jack is my favorite. In a perfect knitting universe I would want to make Sprout (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sprout-3) out of it.
I love all of the new colors! my favorite is Alana.
I would love to make a pretty dress for my daughter with this one...
In an ideal knitting world I would have enough time, skill and skeins of Niall to create a "pretty as a peacock" shawl for me. I've had this pattern for years and never seen the right colours in a variagated yarn for it. Until now...ideas about where I'd find the time or patience are gratefully received!
These yarns are exquisite and whoever did the photography, hats off to you. Your work is wonderful. If I were making something for myself I would choose Maeve but a friend of mine who is having a little boy is on my list to make a special gift and wants bright bold colors so I would have to say Brady and Connor. Can you see a sweet little smilely boy in a hat and sweater made out of Brady and Connor? Love it!
Oh my, they are quite stunning! How have I never found your website before now? Thank god for Ravelry - I feel some spending coming on!
I think I love Cian the most. I'm a bit obsessed with needing to knit something yellow lately. I keep seeing other people's yellow projects and need one myself! I think a shawl, seeing as that's my latest obsession. Probably another Gail. I adore the pattern.
Beautiful colors all around and picking just one is incredibly hard! In particular I adore Maeve, Grady (want to eat it!), Kieran and Erin.
Seeing as you are making me pick just one....I'm picking Alana. In an ideal world, it would be a beautiful blushing long and lacy cardigan.