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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)
What tasteful arrangements. I just think the yarn on the dinner plate is gorgeous.
In my mind I've already casted on and begun knitting an asymmetrical cardigan with 3/4 bell sleeves in Maura. And it's really looking great.
Alana - my very favorite color. In Cary's BFL, to make a sweater with a few cables.
I love Madigan! I'd use it to make a funky Edwardian cowl. But I really love Connor as well, which I'd use to make newborn longies.
Maura would turn into a lovely spring wrap for my mother. While Niall would be a pretty shawl for myself.
Lovely colors all of them.
Lovely yarns! I can't believe I've never come across your yarn before! Shame!
Depending on yardage, I'd love Maeve to knit a february lady sweater or a cowl like Beechwood.
Or Maura to knit up some socks. Or a cowl. mmm.
Or, or or.... they're all so lovely.
oh I have the biggest soft spot for your yarns. For one skein I would love Kate for a hat and mitten set for my daughter and Cameron would make a gorgeous lacy scarf. For a multiple skein item I'd choose Maeve or Maura for a beautiful Celtic inspired cardigan I've had a pattern to for years. Love em all though.
Jack or Maura, and socks, always! Socks are my greatest knitting love, and the brighter, the better! They are all gorgeous, though!
Niall!
Wow, I'm glad I found your site. Blues are my favourite so I'd have to choose Niall, maybe Brady. Since I never make anything for myself, I think I'd make myself a lacy shawl or a sweater.
Oh it's all so beautiful, and so magnificently photographed! Really, your photographer deserves a raise.
My next-door neighbor's daughter is expecting twins in October. If I were taking any of that yarn home, I would have Devin and Niall to make two Five-Hour Baby Sweaters for the eagerly awaited little ones.
Clare - I love the saturated pink-purples. It would look great as a scarf against my black leather jacket, or socks that would brighten my day just by putting them on.
I love the colors! And the photography is clever and imaginative. What's next? Will the skein crawl across the grass to sneak into an unsuspecting knitter's basket?
Niall would make a wonderful sweater for me, just to match all the other blue and purple in my closet.
I couldn't pick just one. I equally love Maura, Niall, and Erin. They are the most beautiful colorways I've ever seen!!!! (and the names certainly help... all three were contenders for my 2nd child's name) As for what to knit with them... in a perfect world I would love to knit myself a sweater. A nice, warm, hand knit cardi would be the greatest gift I could give myself...
I just love Maeve. It was hard to select. They are all so pretty but Maeve really bowls me over!
I'm in love with Kieran (which sounds wrong since he's my cousin's husband), and I'd make something like the Hourglass Jacket (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hourglass-jacket) with it.
And I agree with the PP who commented on the awesome arrangements of the yarn. Gorgeous photos for amazing yarn!
I know this isn't the answer you're looking for...but I want them all. Those photos (and the yarns, of course) are luscious. Good work. It was delightful eyecandy even for those of us who don't expect to win a thing!
Niall would become a pair of sleeves because I am ALWAYS obsessed with slightly belled sleeves. If I had to I would attach a piece of elastic to the top to just apply it to my arms. I could probably make it do a small shrug. THANK YOU for creating a yarn with purple variegated without the green added! I have a black thumb so yarn with a pretty purple and a green added makes me wish I could grow purple flowers.
I loved both Maura and Cameron. Maybe a vest or cute spring sweater...
I love the Clare colorway, which would love to become a Liesl or FLS :)
I love, love, love that yarn. Cian would be splendid along with some orange red in my stash for a mitt pattern. And Devin for a spring shawl. Beautiful work.
Jack wants to be on my needles. And Clare is so jealous, my best freind needs alana. But first on my list is Cian for a cable cardigan, how mean to make us pick one, they are all beautiful.
Well, if I had to narrow it down (and this is hard), I'd take home Ian. And make socks. (In a perfect world, preferably something out of the new Cookie A book that I've been strongly hinting that I want for my birthday in April...)
Bonny Kate!