Seasons of Lace

Thank you so much to those of you who participated in our poll.  We will use your input to improve Seasons of Lace.

As promised…. we’re raffling off the last things in the prize vault.

Kristina (GrandmaKiss ) has donated a skein of Skacel Merino Lace: 100% fine merino, 100 grams, 1375 yds. color 831 dye lot 3307. The color is a very pale ballet pink which she says would be attractive by itself or overdyed.

She’ll be sending it to sfknitty.

Crimson Orchid will be sending some of their lovely stitch markers to SusanS.

Amber of KnitMyWorld has made us a set of fifteen stitch markers, which she’ll be sending to Vicki (Minstrel Spinner).

Ronda (RondaBen ) has agreed to make a row counter for one lucky winner — one like this, except that she’ll make them in the winner’s choice of colors:

She’s sending it to greich (who, as it turns out, participated only on Ravelry).

(Shadowdancer ) from Fiber Dancer’s Design Studio , is sending  a skein of Yarn Place’s Touch to YarnSpider

This yummy stuff is 5% Cashmere, 85% Merino, 10% Tencel 62 1/2 g ~800 yds

So, winners, if I haven’t reached you yet… please contact me with your snail mail addresses so that I can ensure that your prizes get to you!

And thank you all, once again, for your invaluable help in making Seasons of Lace even better next Season!!

We’ll be doing a bit of house keeping, and will soon open sign-ups for Winter of Lace 2008-09.  Winter of Lace runs from December 21 to March 20 (thus, from the Winter Solstice to the Vernal Equinox).  We will, of course. let you know what you need to do … and how to convert your current registration for the new season so that you needn’t start over again.

It’s been a glorious season… and we’ve learned a lot.  We hope to see you in December!

Here are my beautiful price yarns from Andie at Renaissance Dyeing and Freyalyn

Cobweb…. Propably my next challenge for Winter Of Lace Either of these might end up as the “Fern garden scarf” that Andrea at Bad Cat Designs graciously donated.

THANK YOU ALL, now I get to continue knitting without running out of food for the family!

I received my beautiful silk thread in the mail from Blue Moon Fiber Arts. My picture doesn’t really do it justice but it has wonderful potential. Thank you all

This is the wonderful lace yarn I got today for the Lace Partnership award!!  It’s wonderful!!  My camera doesn’t do it justice!!  It looks like sun shining off a black birds wing….. the name Thraven fits now that I see it!!!

Many thanks to everyone at Seasons of Lace and most of all to Helen for letting go of this wonderful yarn.  I don’t know if I would have been that strong!!!!  LOL!!

Carla

I won when the random generator selected me from all the voters! Beautiful, soft laceweight yarn.

My mom really loved the color. I think this 903 yds are meant for her!

And great little stitch markers.

AND… It was mailed from the middle of the U.S. on Monday. Tuesday was a Holiday. I got it in my mailbox on the East Coast on Wednesday! Way to go, USPS!

Thank you, thank you!

We realize there are a LOT of questions here, mostly this comes of us being so new at running this sort of thing and having lots of concerns about trying to make it as good as it can be. As a thank you for going through the whole thing, each person who completes it will be entered into the final raffle of the season!

p.s. this prize offer will be open until 12pm next Monday night.

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Just back from Barbados, where I managed to knit some pretty lace cuffs for my cold hands at work–don’t worry, I mostly knit in the plane!

On arriving home, I’d received a lovely sock pattern from Joyknits designs (hearts ‘n hugs lace socks) and the knitpicks lace sampler, in the sunset hues.  Since those are not my colors, Knit picks has kindly allowed me to return them for the Sea View sampler!  I’ve never been so lucky at receiving prizes!  Thanks to all!

It’s time to wrap up this adventure (so we can start looking forward to the new one).

So… it’s with a lot of pride, a certain amount of joy, and a tinge of sadness, that I present to you the following awards today:  a couple of Raffle Prizes for our most popular raffle categories, a little bit of not quite so Random Joy for an unannounced raffle… and, the most exciting of them all… the Viewers’ Choice Award!

As you may recall, some of the Raffle Categories drew quite a few entrants.  Since we can, because the folks out in the world are so incredibly generous, we decided to do one more round of raffle prizes for the larges two of them.  Without further ado, I bring you Round Four Raffles for Small Lace and Medium Lace.

For Medium Lace, which, as you may recall had 89 entrants from 32 knitters, we have a $25.00 Gift Certificate from

Our lucky winner (eligible for some of the finest hand creams out there as we enter the cold season) is jan229!  Congrats Jan!  I’ll tell Aubrey to look for a contact from you; enjoy browsing her site (and tell us what you pick!!).

In addition, Small lace had a whopping 102 entries from 26 knitters (busy knitters these — and these don’t include the small items that were knit for the Quantity Competition either!).  Once again… resistance was futile, We had to do one more raffle.  And we just happen to have one more Sampler Pack from KnitPicks lurking in the prize vault!  That sampler will be wending its way to littlelena.  I can’t wait to see what she knits up with that yarn for Winter of Lace!!

This round still left a few prizes in the Prize Vault.  So… we thought we’d award one in a raffle to reward the folks who contributed by voting in the Viewers’ Choice Award “election”.  (Yes, the magic of computer polls means that the folks behind the curtain can see who voted.)  I’ll be sending out a skein of a skein of Yarn Place’s Graceful Lace Yarn (the colors gradually shade from one to the next): 100% wool (first grade), 50g, 903 yds.

donated by ShadowDancer and a gorgeous set of stitch markers made by Mary (Banshee ) of the Beading Banshee.  The Random Number Generator tells me that Radarkaty wins!

Finally, and totally deserving of its very own big splashy post… the Viewers Choice Award.  There were a dozen gorgeous items nominated for this award.  I, personally, found it very difficult to choose among them. Seven of them clearly caught the eye of the voting public….  And as between six of them, the running was pretty close.   Makes me wish I could reward prizes for all of them that received votes from you, our readers.

However, the winning entry stands out.  It wasn’t close here…..a full third selected our winner (that’s a good 20% over the nearest competitor).

This Neibling shawl is the Winner of the First Seasons of Lace Viewers Choice Award! (sets a pretty high bar, doesn’t it?)

Congratulations tinker!!  You will be receiving  your very own Amy Butler Madison Bag made just for you by our own Beverly (PoMoGoLightly ).  Way to Go Tinker!!! (and thanks Beverly).

It’s almost the end…. we have one more important thing to do, and one more round of Random JOY to clean out the Prize Vault.  We hope you’ll stick with us …..

So a while back I won two free patterns from Pink Lemon Twist.  What a great prize, especially since I’ve been drooling over her patterns for a while.  I chose the Hanami Stole and Moondance.  I’m sure I have the yarn for these in my stash and look forward to the new Winter season to start either one of these projects.   Thank you so much and until next time happy lace knitting!!

Chelle

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Don’t forget!!! The polling for the Viewers’ Choice award closes tonight at midnight CST!!! If you’ve done it yet … please go VOTE