It’s Time for Round TWO!

I hope you all had a great weekend while I was frolicking about with my family on a bit of a sneak long weekend.

It’s great to see these prize winners posts of their goodies — especially the ones that I haven’t seen in person yet.

Meanwhile, we have the voting in from all but one of our . . . → Read More: It’s Time for Round TWO! Read more »

Don’t Go Away…

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!

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…

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 »

RAFFLE PRIZES!!

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

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

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 »

Most Consistent Blogger Award

You may recall that we had awards planned for more than just Judged Competitions in addition to the Quantity Competitions and plethora of raffles.

One of those was an award for the Most Consistent Blogger.  Those of you who posted, and posted regularly, really helped to make this blog worth reading.  You made this KAL work.  When . . . → Read More: Most Consistent Blogger Award Read more »

More Prizes!!

A quick review…

Last week we awarded prizes for the Quantity Competitions (nolaboard knit the most small items, thislitlepiggyknits knit the most yards).

This week, we’re hoping to submit things to our Judges (but would really really really like to see some more nominations!).  We plan to send the lists to them tomorrow — so you have one . . . → Read More: More Prizes!! Read more »

Quantity Competitons – and their Winners (updated)

Drum roll please.

Ladies and Gentlemen, as we promised before the Summer Season began,  today we announce the results of our Quantity Competitions.

For the Competition for the Most Small Items Knit (in which we defined "Small Item" to mean an item that took at least 350 and no more than 700 yards to complete), we had 14 . . . → Read More: Quantity Competitons – and their Winners (updated) Read more »