It’s me again. The prize Maven… and I’ve got… well…. more prizes to announce! The wonderful folks at Jimmy Beans Wool will be sending us five hanks of the Misti Alpaca Lace to award as prizes! This is Jimmy Beans’ first Season supporting Seasons of Lace. And, there’s more!!!…. Helena of Midnight Sheep has donated [...]
Apr 252010
Apr 052010
KnitsbyTeri has donated a copy of Victorian Lace Today to us. She’s allowed me to award it for our first Random Joy prize. I think it’s timely… since we’ve been discussing the possibility of doing a little KAL from this book. So I applied the random number generator to the list of folks who have [...]
Mar 272010
It’s that time again — Prize time. It seems odd, coming out of an “off” season, to be awarding prizes, but what can I do? Our sponsors evidently love us so much that they donated prizes… I’m awarding them in no particular order…. and so… First up… Cindy at BaxterKnits donated one of her Progressive [...]
Feb 282010
I just noticed that i had’nt even posted last months shawl and i’ve been really busy this month!! In Jan I finished the Mum shawl from Susan Pandorf. This was a wonderful knit and I really love the way she ended it!! I just wish I had a decent photo that shows off the beads!! [...]
Feb 162010
As you may recall, our fearless Web Mistress has been doing her magic, mostly unsung, and definitely unrewarded, for the past several seasons. Worse yet, her job and life has kept her so busy that the only thing she’s been able to do for us is keep the blog running smoothly, fix problems, and host [...]
Feb 142010
Hi, I’ve cast on and am doing the Green Moss Shawl from Heirloom Knitting. It’s a really unusuall construction…. it’s a semi-circular that’s knit from the bottom up by starting with 8 repeats of the border and picking up the body and working the body and border together from there. I’m loving this so far!! [...]
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 [...]
I think it’s time for some number games. We’ve got enough prizes to go around that there are FIVE Raffle prizes left for Supporters of our Sponsors, and Four Random Joy Prizes Left. And of course there are Third Round Prizes for four Raffles… AND A Third Runner up prize for one of our Judged [...]
Jan 092010
Today, I will announce another raffle prize… and another Random Joy Prize — because it’s fun. First, I’ll lay bare a little of the process by which we determine how many runners up any given Raffle or Competition has. The first question, of course, is how many prizes do I have to play with. The [...]
Dec 072009
It’s Monday. I need a lift. So… I’m awarding some Random Joy prizes. And Lindsay reminded me that we’ve not sent out stitch markers much… so that’s what we’ll do today! As you may recall,Lindsay (LynnzPickles ) of the Wooly Seashell has promised three! sets of four stitch markers. The first was awarded back in [...]
