Contest - Win Socks for Life!

I have blogged before about the fine people over at Patons, and did a review of their sock yarn. I also made a shawl with their yarn but am ashamed to say it still needs to be blocked. I'll get to it someday!

In the meantime, I wanted to let you know about a contest they're having - you can win socks for life!! They're giving away a lifetime supply of socks, a prize equivalent to $1000 worth of yarn! To enter, just tel them how you will be impacted by winning. Full details here.

And look, YARN! YARN! YARN!

Vanna's Choice Contest - Free yarn!!

Remember when I entered the Vanna's Choice contest awhile ago? Well it's been a long time since I hit my "submit" button, and I eventually found out I didn't win first prize, so I don't get to fly down to LA to meet Vanna White! BUT my entry did win one of the second place prizes - which means I got free yarn. I have been waiting to see when they would update their website so I could tell the world!

In late July, we came home to a box on our doorstep. A box from Lion Brand!

LOOK at the goodies inside! There's 50 bucks worth of yarn in there!

Here's the haul, I am SO excited!! And grateful! I ran and jumped around the house, singing out that I won free yarn! My husband was afraid. WOW thank you Lion Brand and Vanna's Choice!! Check out ALL the winners here.

Vanna's Choice Contest - next round

I posted back in January about Lion Brand's Vanna's Choice contest, and posted a pic of my palette. I designed a Spaceship Play Set, and guess what, the judges picked it to go on to the next round! This round is where the public can vote, once a day, until April 3. You have to log in to the site to vote. There are lots of great prizes, but the top prize is a trip to LA to meet Vanna White! Did you know she's a master crocheter?? How cool!

Here's the link to vote - take a look at all the amazing entries! http://www.vannaschoice.com

And here is my entry, the Spaceship Play Set:

Vanna's Choice Contest

I have never heard of this contest, but I've decided to enter! It's called Vanna's Choice Contest, run by Lion Brand yarn. You have to design something in her yarn, using at least three colours. Here's my colour palette:

And a close up:

I had hoped for a brighter yellow, but this one will do. Now I gotta start crocheting - the contest closes Feb 3!

Winner!

Snowy the Fisherman didn't win the contest. But I got so many lovely comments about him that I decided to raffle him off to my Facebook friends who "liked" him. I also let the King and I kids have a chance at winning him - they helped me cut up the names of the entries and put them into a bag to draw. And one of them won! Here's Holly, with her new prize: 

Bye, bye Snowy, have fun in your new home :)

Snowy the Fisherman

This is Snowy! I made him for a contest from Amigurumipatterns.net. The theme was "Animals at Work." There are 264 great entries in total! If you want, you can vote for Snowy (and 4 other). I could win books and YARN! Vote here, and thanks! After the contest, I will donate Snowy to charity :)