and then there were two…
July 2, 2009you all know about my handspun EZ snail hat. well, now there’s another fabulous snail hat in the blogosphere.
here at Knithound Brooklyn.
which makes me want a whole legion of handspun snails. can you imagine how happy a place the internet (and real world) would be if only there were a bunch of these around?
enter the knit-a-long. a handspun EZ knit along. if you’d like to join the snail maddness, there’s a thread in ravelry here. and we don’t necessarily require you to use handspun ;)
EDIT: and then there were two threads! also the July hat-a-long in the Hats! Hats! Hats! group. thanks janknit :)
p.s. join and talk about it by blogging, tweeting, mentioning it in a forum, or inviting others to join and i’ll enter you in a drawing for a skein of my handspun! be sure to come back to this thread and comment to be entered. you have until tuesday the 7th at 5 pm eastern time.
i was just ogling lisa’s version over at knithound. that pink cvm might be perfect for this. (as if that weren’t enough, the thought of winning a skein of your handspun might make me cast on just about anything!)
I think I have some perfect handspun for this. Fun!
EZ’s snail hat is also in “The Opinionated Knitter” around page 94-96. I am very excited and will be knitting along in my own handspun. I also RT’ed your tweet about this contest/knitalong.
I just joined in the cosymakes group on ravelry :) I’m excited!
I mentioned it in the Over The Fence group on Rav. (http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/over-the-fence/706194/1-25)
Looking forward to this one, I’ve not knit one of these before. Thanks Cosy!
hi Cosy – I posted to my blog a few minutes ago. I figure I’ll do some updates, too. This is so cool!
Lisa
I have enjoyed looking at your blog and shall have a go! Looking forward to a chance of a prize!
Yay! I’m in and I have so lovely handspun to knit it with too! :) Will tweet about it in a moment…
Great idea – EZ and handspun!
Just posted over on the Zimmermaniacs discussion group on Ravelry. Can’t believe that there wasn’t a thread there already. :)
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i bought the pattern forever ago and haven’t gotten to it, so this is just the excuse i needed to finally make myself a snail hat!! (it’ll be my first EZ pattern, i’m just a bad knitter!)
i just tweeted: http://twitter.com/_leethal_/status/2500766079
I knew I had been carrying around Vogue Knitting’s winter 09 issue for some reason…….to make the EZ Snail Hat:)…..getting a chance to win some delicious handspun is a bonus!
blogged here: http://thestarbox.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-vogue-elizabeth-zimmerman-snail-hat.html
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Hey, I’m really enjoying your site! I’m hoping you might be interested in a great craft show near me, the no coast craft-o-rama in Minneapolis. I not involved – just a shopper who thinks you’d be a good fit!
I’ve enclosed a link – love the snail hat!
http://nocoastcraft.com/nocoast/information-for-vendors/#How_do_I_apply_to_be_a_vendor
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