Seasons of Lace

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.

I received my prize package from Woolgirl today :)  Jen generously let me pick out a pattern and a skien of yarn from her shop and this is what I chose:

Of course, I picked a sock pattern and then some wonderful merino/tencel blend yarn. Now I have to finish up my gift knitting so I can cast on my new pattern.  Thanks Jen at Woolgirl!

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 am really glad I had the time to get these finished. I didn’t want any unfinished lace sitting around. I’m ready to start holiday knitting! These are Eyelet rib socks in Shepherd Sock, color Mother Lode 284 yds. I’ll be back tomorrow for my final wrap-up.

Here are all of the projects I knit during this Season of Lace :

All together I knit 9 pair of socks and 3 dishcloths for a grand total of 12 finished small objects. This was a great jump start to my gift knitting!

Another pair of socks  into the finished category :)  Once I had time to work on thses they knit up fairly quickly. I really like the way the pattern forms a zig zag around the leg.

I started these 7/15/08.  I’m realizing too late that I didn’t ever post a “Cast On” post for these projects.  But anyway, at least I’m getting them posted for “Finished Objects.”  And they just barely make it into the “Small lace knitting by size” category!

I actually LOVED working this pattern.  I even had to revise it just a bit to allow for more stitches around the leg, and 5 pattern repeats around the leg instead of only 4.  I may knit this pattern again some time when I can make a longer cuff.  Here’s my Ravelry link for more details.

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!

Okay, I just had to cast on one more pair of socks :) 

The name of this pattern is Maizy Lace by Cathy Hannigan and the yarn is TOFUtsies.