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handmade squirrel contest!

April 24, 2010

the brooklyn general store has a pretty fabulous tree:

and this spring, they’re interested in filling it with handmade squirrels. that is where you and i come in. they have put out a call for people to make original, handmade squirrels (cute!) and enter the contest (fun!).

You can hop over here to their blog for the official rules, but here are the fabulous prizes!

1st Prize: $200 Brooklyn General Store gift certificate (valid for one year).

2nd Prize: $100 Brooklyn General Store gift certificate (valid for one year).

3rd Prize: $50 Brooklyn General Store gift certificate (valid for one year).

Youth Prizes (0-15 yrs): Three squirrels will each be awarded one $50 Brooklyn General Store gift certificate (valid for one year).

well worth the fun of joining in, if you ask me. they have tons of great stuff – from fabric to yarn, to patterns to notions. i could easily spend $100 there! do you not live in brooklyn? well, it doesn’t matter because they have recently opened a website too… although going there would probably be the most fun ;)

p.s. personally, i want to see some a bunch of crazy colored handspun ones.

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fiber clubs! questions and a prize

March 27, 2010

i got a new batch of falkland in the mail yesterday, so i’m ready to start at least one version of the fiber club. and i’m going to dye monday and tuesday… so i have questions for you all, because i have waaaay too many ideas.

i’m hoping to keep a falkland club up at most times, because it’s the one wool i can get in large quantities which is soft, squishy, fun to spin, and environmentally friendly to both the sheep and the earth.

striping yarn club?

do you want the option to opt out of one particular color?

color based? variations on a particular color? this would allow for some plying together. EDIT: for instance, variations on blue. you might get a light blue based, dark grey/blue and a bright.

mostly white with bits of color?

is it important to you to have the option of a double batch of the colorway?

would you rather i do whatever i want to do?

any other input?

and what’s in it for you? spinning fiber! a falkland subtle stripes spinning kit is up for grabs. i have several for the winner to choose from. give me your opinions by sunday at 9 pm eastern. i’ll announce the winner on monday.

p.s. i’m also working on a farm wool club! but that will take me a bit longer to organize.

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Knitcircus giveaway

March 4, 2010

jaala, the editor-in-chief of knitcircus magazine, has been generous to let me give away not one, but two copies of the PDF download of the Spring Pattern Collection.

the free magazine, which can be found here, includes reviews, articles, interviews, recipes and pattern previews. the collections are for purchase (for a very reasonable price!) and contain all of the patterns shown. the current issue has an interview with Terri Shea, the author of Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition and a fun article on visiting a sheep farm as well as much more. the collection itself is full of fun and interesting patterns. myself, i’m admiring the diamond hat and the seamless slippers.

if you would like to be in the running for this fabulous collection, go check out the patterns and comment on this post with your favorite and who you might possibly make it for. this give-away will end on sunday at 9 pm. i’ll random number generate and announce the winners on monday.

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2010

As always, my wish for you is that your gauges be spot on.

and announcing the answers to the quiz…
1) Cosette has been paid to have her art work appear where c) on a credit card website
2) Cosette’s first real adult sweater was knit for b) viggo mortensen
3) How did Cosette’s book deal go down? c) over flickr
4) How long has Cosette been knitting? e) 6.5 years
and then this happened and life has never been the same.
5) Cosette prefers to knit with a) wool – witness this rant about shetland.
6) How fast does Cosette knit? c) this is a ridiculous question – and obviously written for non-knitters!
7) How much yarn does Cosette have? e) a room full
8) How many spinning apperati (wheels and spindles) does Cosette own? b) 9
here, here, here, here, and here.
9) Which of the following did Cosette’s masters thesis NOT include b) live sheep
a) crocheted hors d’oeurves and here.
c) recycled sweater wool in both forms
d) a spinning wheel bought at a thrift store (see pictures of the opening towards the bottom)
e) the theology of genesis
10) Which of the following has Cosette made? a) the same hat 6 times

and the people with the most correct answers are people who really know me :) honestly, top 5, 4/5 people know me in real life. so here’s the prize breakdown:
3 patterns each go to lynne and cheryl who only missed 2 each
2 patterns each go to jamie, mick, and meghan for missing only 3
and the rest of you get one pattern each just for playing :)

thanks to all who played. you, my reader and responders, make blogging another year worthwhile and you never fail to make me smile.

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knitting cosy quiz

December 30, 2009

ben and i made up this quiz in that ridiculous facebook how well do you know quiz thing. it’s actually very funny to have non-fibery people take it, but i’m wondering how you all will do. i’m thinking about a prize of some sort, maybe a free pattern to the people with the highest scores?

1) Cosette has been paid to have her art work appear where
a) on the side of a bus
b) in a gallery
c) on a credit card website
d) at the white house
e) on samuel l. jackson

2) Cosette’s first real adult sweater was knit for
a) ben
b) viggo mortensen
c) prime minister stephen harper
d) herself
e) vickie howell

3) How did Cosette’s book deal go down?
a) they called her
b) she proposed it
c) over flickr
d) over her blog
e) self-published

4) How long has Cosette been knitting?
a) 20 years
b) 13.5 years
c) 4 years
d) since her grandmother taught her
e) 6.5 years

5) Cosette prefers to knit with
a) wool
b) cotton
c) acrylic
d) a blend of some sort
e) straight from the sheep (baaaa)

6) How fast does Cosette knit?
a) 30 rows/min
b) 1 hat/hour
c) this is a ridiculous question
d) 10 mitts/day
e) 4 sts/in.

7) How much yarn does Cosette have?
a) so much that she sleeps on it
b) 5 balls of every color
c) 10 gallons
d) the same yardage as a football field
e) a room full

8) How many spinning apperati (wheels and spindles) does Cosette own?
a) 4
b) 9
c) 2.5 (she stepped on one of her spindles)
d) 5
e) 7

9) Which of the following did Cosette’s masters thesis NOT include
a) crocheted hors d’oeurves
b) live sheep
c) recycled sweater wool
d) a spinning wheel bought at a thrift store
e) the theology of genesis

10) Which of the following has Cosette made?
a) the same hat 6 times
b) bikini from her own handpsun
c) sweater vest for ben
d) leg warmers (they’re coming back you know…)
e) tank top in lush organic cotton

comment with your answers to win! you have until new years day at noon. sorry – no entering if you’ve already taken it on facebook – cause you’ll already know the answers.

p.s. if you’ve been reading this blog for 3 years, you should have one up on all the others!

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pattern giveaway: snow cat hat

October 12, 2009

five copies of this pattern are up for grabs today!

rules and regs:
1) you have until noon on wednesday to comment on the post
2) if you’re chosen by the random number generator, i email you the pdf
3) you have 2 months to complete this knit and put it up on ravelry as a project
4) email me your blog post and/or ravelry link and i will put your version of the hat up on the blog as an extra perk

today’s offering is the snow cat hat (on ravelry here). a playful square hat with lace snowflake details, and accentuated cat ears, this hat comes with sizing for almost every head in your household. comment for a chance to win!

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pattern giveaway: sweet potato hats

September 28, 2009

i cannot even tell how marvelous it has been seeing all the baby belles show up. and because of that i’ve been struck by a bit of inspiration. for the next few mondays, starting today, i will be giving away up to 5 copies of select patterns… with some strings attached.

here’s how it will work.
1) you have until noon on wednesday to comment on the post
2) i mail you a pdf (either because you’re one of the few who responded and really wants to knit it now or because you get drawn by the random number generator)
3) you have 2 months to complete the project and put it up on ravelry as a project
4) email me your blog post and/or ravelry link and i will put your version of the hat up on the blog as an extra perk

today’s offering is the sweet potato hat patterns. which you can read about through that link or here on ravelry. i think this pattern is especially nice with one hand dyed and one solid. and because i’m always a fan of handspun, doing one of the two colors in handspun could also be very interesting. comment for a chance to win!

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and we have a winner…

November 29, 2008

cirilia!! here she is in her woolies

28thirty4, originally uploaded by skrillaknits.

thanks to you all for entering and showing off those woolens. here’s the original entry. i highly recommend going to the comments and clicking on all the links. they might even make you happy… i know they did me.

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spotting local woolies

November 21, 2008

1. local harvest rocks for finding local wool! so far i ordered two lbs of cvm roving from this farm.

2. the new twist collective is awesome. i must make this.

3. now that winter is upon many of us, i have a question. what do you look like in all of your woolie woolens when you leave the house? here’s my recent incarnation of and snuggly goodness. as you can see, i can’t stop wearing my hat. and as i mentioned before, PINK!!

i’d love to see a picture of you in yours… so here’s a little contest. post a photo in flickr or on a blog. then come back and comment on this blog entry with a link to your photo and i’ll use the random number generator to choose a winner of a skein of the handspun i’m spinning for Bizarre Bazaar. fun fun. and don’t forget there’s also a contest for a copy of my book here in the sidebar for a bit longer. the winter woolies contest will end in a week, on the 27th at 9 eastern time.

4. and just cause it’s silly – check out the top 13 search terms that hit my blog in the last 3 months.

cosymakes 324
knit neck warmer 125
knitted neck warmer 111
pixie hood 43
knit neck warmer pattern 43
knitted neck warmer pattern 40
knitted neck warmers 36
smoke ring pattern 33
neck warmer knitted 33
cowl or neckwarmer knitting patterns 32
helmet hat 28
neckwarmer 28
knit neck warmers 26

that would be 474 hits for this page, which, sadly, contains no patterns for knitted neckwarmers. i am so not helpful. that said, maybe i should write a pattern for one…

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QUICK!!

July 15, 2008

name some of these so i can list them in the shop and sell them :)

special this time only since i’m making you work fast – first dibs, 10% off and free shipping in the US if your name recommendation (or any part of your name recommendation) gets picked.