Finally, that pesky post urging you all to vote has been allowed to slip back into the depths. Instead, I offer you the last post I’m going to write about Autumn Lace ’09! First and foremost — thank you all so very much for your participation! Thank you to all the sponsors and donors who [...]
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Jan 262010
It’s been so serious around here lately. All these formal raffles, and competitions… Time for some RANDOM JOY! A prize you can win just for participating! if you posted AT ALL you qualified for this one! Today’s Bit of Random Joy? Laura of Fiber Dreams has promised one more lucky winner the choice of one [...]
Jan 222010
Before we get entrenched in the Round Two Raffle Prizes, I thought I’d return to one of our Competitions. A couple of days ago, I revealed the Second Runner up for Lace on Display. Today, before we forget all those lovely nominees, I thought I’d round out that Competition, and show you the Runner Up [...]
Jan 072010
The Autumn 2009 Season is well and truly over. The Winter Season has begun, and folks are starting to work on the imprompu KAL for the Echo Flower Shawl. We even have one prize for the prize closet, even though this is an “off” season, and so I’ve not been Prize questing yet. As Prize [...]
Okay… we’ve now got lots of nominations! So many that I need to break up the judged category nominations posts into several posts! Thanks!! And now, without further ado… The nominees for the Lace Partnerships Award ( for all of which, clicking on the photo will take you to the post itself. Sometimes, there are [...]
Dec 252009
It’s past time to show you all the nominations for our Judged Contests! Alas, while I wholly agree with the idea of awarding the prize for the category that received one nomination, that may be because I nominated it in the first place. That means that I really need to ask you all to get [...]
Jun 072009
Finally, after poll snafu’s, voting scandals (well, not really), I’m proud to announce the winner of the Viewer’s Choice Award!! With this award, we see a trend — Things Designed By Herbert Neibing seem to win around here. With that hint, I’m sure you all recognize that violetknits’ Lyra won. Her prize … A grab [...]
May 252009
Hi y’all…. I’ve compiled data, and it’s not adding up. Here’s the problem: The original poll data shows us that 41 people have voted. But — this number includes the original round, which got corrupted, and the current round, which isn’t letting some people vote again, for reasons we cannot figure out. I now have [...]
May 222009
There seems to be a bit of a problem with our recalcitrant poll. It seems to have allowed ten of our registered users to vote this tie around, but is not allowing others. It is true that you need to be logged in to vote. If you’ve tried while not logged in, please log in [...]
May 172009
I received the gorgeous, soft and lovely knit picks Alpaca Cloud last week, and Lacefreak also sent a huge hank of Designs by Romi Handpainted Alpaca Lace Yarn. And a beautiful pattern for a shawl, the Blue Bird Shawl by designed by Rosemary Hill. The colors are amazing- dark slate green Alpaca Cloud and bright [...]
