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A Piece of Vermont

By sligo, on October 19th, 2008%

Here’s a shot of the yarn I won from A Piece of Vermont. It’s Sugar Hill 2-ply laceweight wool, 3.5 ounces, 660 yards, in the colorway Hearthside, which of course had to be photographed on the Vermont wood pile. It has a rich range of deep reds. It’s really lovely, and I’m so grateful! This shop . . . → Read More: A Piece of Vermont Read more »

my pretty new yarns!

By nolaboard, on October 17th, 2008%

I won a gift certificate from Needleworks! Shadowdancer helped me pick the yarns, shopping for me over the phone. She did a great job! edit–sorry about the black spots, they’re on my camera lens, not . . . → Read More: my pretty new yarns! Read more »

SOL prize

By littlelena, on October 17th, 2008%

Today I received this adorable skein of yarn from Donna at Spinning daydreams. It came in this cute little box. There was also a spinners cupcake with nine yards of yarn to play with. . . . → Read More: SOL prize Read more »

Don’t Go Away…

By ShadowDancer, on October 17th, 2008%

Just a quick note to let you know that I’m running away (vacation again) for the weekend.
I may not have internet access again until LAAAaaaate Wednesday night.

Whichy hopes to announce some more raffle prizes before I come back.

If I owe you email, or something, I promise to get to it Thursday.

And I’m hoping to get to . . . → Read More: Don’t Go Away… Read more »

One More Time!

By ShadowDancer, on October 16th, 2008%

And… for the last of the Round One Raffle Prizes ….

For Lace Knit with the Knitters Own Handspun (for which we had five entries from three knitters), yarnpro is our winner! She gets a $25.00 Gift Certificate from

(and in case lotion isn’t her thing, Aubrey also has great stuff to help take care of . . . → Read More: One More Time! Read more »

MORE Raffle Prizes…

By ShadowDancer, on October 16th, 2008%

Here are a few more of the Round One Raffle Prizes:

For the Self-Designed Lace Raffle, we had 24 entries from 11 knitters. I had hopes here, and got Whichy to do the drawing, but NightlyKnitter won the first round. She’ll be receiving 8 ounces of hand dyed lace weight from

I’m not sure what . . . → Read More: MORE Raffle Prizes… Read more »

Secret of the Stole III

By littlelena, on October 15th, 2008%

I’m not sure if anyone is checking this blog anymore, but I thought I would post a picture of my finished shawl. It came out about 25×80 and used about 2 2/3 balls of Knit Picks Gloss in Celery. So nice to get . . . → Read More: Secret of the Stole III Read more »

RAFFLE PRIZES!!

By ShadowDancer, on October 14th, 2008%

Whichy and I got together today and worked through Round One of the Raffles. We agree that each prize deserves equal time…so we’re going to torture you all by spreading out the notices over the next couple of days.

Today, we’re going to tell you about the Raffles for which there are going to be at least . . . → Read More: RAFFLE PRIZES!! Read more »

Random Joy Strikes Again

By ShadowDancer, on October 13th, 2008%

Looks like we have some extra patterns to give away.

What a shame.

Whatever will I do?

I guess, I’ll just have to fire up that Random Number Generator for a bit of Random Joy!

Today, we’ve got three prizes from Melanie (PinkLemon ) of

Pink Lemon Twist . She’s generously decided to give three lucky people two patterns from her . . . → Read More: Random Joy Strikes Again Read more »

Prize Shopping .. What fun

By ShadowDancer, on October 13th, 2008%

Every now and then, being the Prize Maven means you get to go play in yarn stores and just shop. As you may recall, nolaboard won the $50.00 gift certificate from Needleworks . And by happenstance it worked out that I got to play personal shopper for her.

I toured the shop, cell-phone in hand, chatting away, . . . → Read More: Prize Shopping .. What fun Read more »

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