Seasons of Lace

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…. there are more raffle prizes…

We’ve done a Round Three Raffle for four of our Raffle Categories.  These four had plenty of players… and we just couldn’t resist.

First up… Wee Lace JustdotChristina is our lucky winner.  She’ll be receiving a kit for Maureen Mason-Jamieson’ scarf Whimsy

from Shelridge Farms.

Christina… contact Buffy at Shelridge Farms to choose your color!

Buffy will be sending in the color of the winner’s choice.

Then… Small Lace  Birgit She’ll be receiving some luscious a hank of cobweb yarn from Freyalyn of Freyalyn’s Fibers

It’s a blend of merino and mohair, with a slight halo and lovely lustre. Weight is between 80-90g, but the yardage is 1500 yards/1300 metres. The color in the picture below is Murex, but she will dye to whatever colour birgit desires! .

Then  Medium Lace  – dplantlady is our lucky winner — she’ll be receiving three skeins of KnitPicks Shimmer, donated by escr

and finally

Lace Socks. judybll will be getting a hand dyed skein of yarn from Rabbitch!

And you thought we were done….’

But I still have more yarn to give away!

For example… there are three skeins of Malabrigo lace, just aching for a new home.

Our very own Darla donated this prize, and we’re awarding it now as the Second Round Raffle Prize for Medium Lace.  The lucky winner is …. hilltopkatie!  And she’ll also be receiving a Shawls Booklet from JoyKnits.

in addition, I have this yummy Yarn and pattern combo from Stitch Jones

This is harder still, since I can touch it and everything.  Even so, I’ll be sending it off to the winner of our  Socks Category Round Two Raffle,along with a pattern for Angel Wings socks from JoyKnits The winner is….. vicki!

And finally … for round two anyway… There is this lovely hand dyed merino from our own Vicki (vicki953)

I’ve got to tell you, sending this away — like to kill me!  But even so, it’s been awarded as the second round prize in the Beaded Lace category, so I’ll  be sending it along to bagoyarn, who will enjoy choosing patterns from

KnitSpot as well, since she wins the last of the $10.00 gift certificates.

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 three rounds.

For the Wee Knits Raffle (in which we had 82 entries from 22 knitters playing), the First Round Raffle Winner is tammyknits!

tammyknits will be receiving a skein of yarn from

Artsy Gal , (who was also one of our sponsors.)  In addition, she’ll have her choice of pattern pdfs from
We hope that tammyknits will post a picture of her prize when she receives it.

The Small Knits Raffle was next.  We had 102 entries with 23 knitters playing.  The First Round Raffle Winner is escr, who will be choosing her favorite one of the Knit Picks lace samplers.

Next, we have Medium lace, with 89 tickets for 32 players.  The winner for the first Round Raffle here is wenat!

Wenat will be receiving two skeins of delicious Wagtail Yarns (100% fine kid mohair, 375 meters), courtesy of The Fairy GodKnitter.

and a copy of JoyKnits Shawls booklet .

And finally, (for now), for the Raffle for Socks/Mitts/Gloves (in which we had 51 entries from 18 knittes), our first round winner is marinemom! (This seems fitting somehow, she finished NINE pairs of socks this Season!!).  MarineMom will be receiving a skein of yarn and a pattern from Jen at

Wool Girl is also one of our sponsors with 10% off lace yarns.

We hope that Marinemom will share a picture of her prize when it arrives!

Soon to come… More Round One Raffle Winners!!!

I finished it just in time! I also added another 1000 yads since the last time I posted, bringing to a little over 1600 yds.

Here is my last lace project for the Season of Lace 2008.  The pattern is Upstairs (Rav link).  The yarn is Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud in the Peppermint colorway.  I did four extra pattern repeats to increase the length.  The blocked measurements are 19″ x 60″.  I probably could have stretched it a bit more.  I’ve got more pictures on my Ravelry Project page.

Thank goodness the deadline wasn’t 9/21! I finished my final project (Icarus) that evening and it’s blocking now.

My final report is:

441 yds knit on the “Wrapped in Care shawl”

540 yds knit on the “Juliet”

854 yds knit on “Icarus”

259 yds knit on “Noro Zetor Shawl”

50 yds knit on “Frill” (only 50 yds worth of this was knit during Seasons Of Lace)

123 yds on “shibui Swallowtail”

For a grand total of 2267 yds knit all together. I’ve seen some of the beautiful work that’s been produced here and I hold out no hope whatsoever that I am even *near* the running for most yards knit. Ahhh I had such hopes and dreams when I started

Thanks for the fun, inspiration and deadlines that made me accomplish what I did! Thanks especially to the Seasons of Lace mavens (Alyse, Helen and Maria) for all their hard work!

Elizabeth

Hello,

since my last post I only finished the Anniversary Mystery Shawl from Goddessknits.

I needed 1480 m yarn for it.

I haven’t finished three projects:

First the Vkanis Sunlord from MMario. I’m knitting this shawl as doily with very thin yarn.

Till now I used 1250 m yarn for it. I’m now on round 223 of 320 plus an edging.

Then I’m knitting the Secret of the stole 3 from Nauticalknitter.

I’m now at the beginning of hint 6 and used 750 m yarn for it.

And at least but not last I’m testknitting the Klabauter Mystery from Monika Eckert. I have nearly finished it and used 980 m yarn till now. I only can show it until clue 2, because it’s a mystery.

Best wishes Utlinde

I know I just showed you clue five, but I wanted to get clue six finished to show you before the Summer of Lace ended. I usually divide the clues up by the number of days I have to work on it, so doing the entire clue in one day was a bit harsh. At any rate here is my final Secret of the Stole clue for Summer of Lace. I’ve used 792 yds of Knit Picks Gloss in Celery.

I haven’t gotten past clue one on Mystery Stole 4. I don’t think I will be working on it before tomorrow so my final total is 70 yds of Knit Picks Shadow in Juniper.

Here’s my last update post, with yardage, which obviously does not really matter as far as the competition goes, but I’m feeling pretty happy with how much I’ve accomplished. I am homeschooling the older two of my four young children and working on top of that, so the idea that any knitting at all got done is a great source of pleasure, and that I finished two gifts and a project for myself is really terrific. Here’s what I did:

Goddess Knits Anniversary Shawl, 1410 yards

Coveted Lace Skirt, my design: 900 yards

Goddess Knits Mystery Shawl #9  1050 yards

Bad Cat Designs Summer Sampler Study: 1400 yards

and a pathetic photo of four works in progress that have about 500 yards in them:

Storyteller Socks, Veil of Isis, Anniversary Shawl, and Mystery Stole 4:

So, I count 5,260 yards total.

I want to thank everyone for sharing their projects. I have gotten so many great ideas from so many of you. I have about a hundred pages to finish working on tonight, but I’m hoping to get a chance tomorrow to review more projects so as to nominate my favorites for special prizes–there are so many great projects! Hope to see you all again in the winter!

And thanks so much to the moderators and sponsors for making this happen!