Prize Closet – Summer 2011

Posted by ShadowDancer on October 17, 2010 at 10:02 am

Welcome to the Prize Closet. This is the place where you can see all of the amazing prizes that Local Yarn Stores, Etsy Shops, Designers, Independent Dyers, and other Generous People have donated to help make Seasons of Lace more fun.

The current Season is: Summer of Lace 2011

If you look at the link to this page in the header for this site, you’ll note that there is a drop down menu showing additional pages. There you will find the Prize List for the most recently active Season (Winter of Lace 2011), along with information about who won those prizes. You’ll also find a list of all the folks who have ever donated a prize for Seasons of Lace, and the number of seasons during which they’ve supported us on Past Donors page.

Several of our Prize donors have also provided DISCOUNTS to our members that are good during the season. Please be sure to check out those discounts, and to shop with our sponsors! Without them, we’d have an empty prize closet. Remember — if use our sponsors’ wares, and blog about it on SoL and you’ll qualify to WIN more prizes.

To make finding specific things easier, we’ve sorted the Prize Closet into several categories.

Other (all sorts of fun things there!)

(Some of our members are donating as well!!! (Remember, if you donate, you get more chances to win). The links in their information are to Ravelry home pages or to blogs).

Gift Certificates

Chris of Briar Rose Fibers was one of our original sponsors. She is supporting us this season with a DISCOUNT, and with a $40.00 gift certificate!She has supported us with prizes and discounts during five past seasons — and this is her sixth.This prize went to utlinde for 2nd place in the Viewer’s Choice contest.

Patterns

Jared Flood of Brooklyn Tweed has donated a copy of his Rock Islandshawl pattern. He also provided a discount on that pattern for the participants of this summer’s KAL.Cathy Cate won her copy of the pattern in a Random Joy raffle.This is Jared’s first season supporting Seasons of Lace as a sponsor (but he served as a judge for the first season’s competitions.)

Helen from Fiber Dancers’ Design Studiohas offered a pdf copy of one of her designs.You can also see her designs on Ravelry,Helen has been sponsoring Seasons of Lace from the very beginning.

Laura of Fiber Dreams has donated two prizes this season. The first prize is a pattern of the winner’s choice from Laura’s collection. And the second is a copy of her new shawl Clematis.

Clematis takes 720 yards of light sport weight yarn (she used Bijou Basin Ranch Lhasa Wilderness in Blueberry),to create a shawl that is 79 x 44 inches (201 x 112 cm).This is Laura’s seventh season as a Seasons of Lace prize donor and supporter.hilltopkatie won Clematis as a runner up for Small Lace

knittindiva won a pattern of her choice for in the ressurection lace raffle

Kitman Figueroahas donated one of her patterns (winners choice) for distribution as a raffle prize.This is Kitman’s first season supporting Seasons of Lace — Welcome!strangeangel won this in the season spanning raffle

Teri Lindstrom (our own KnitsByTeri) has once again donated one of her lovely patterns… the winner will get to choose.This is Teri’s fifth Season supporting Seasons of Lacegretchenj won this as a runner up in the wee lace raffle.

Mary R. White has donated three! of her lovely patterns. Each winner will get to choose the pattern. You can see them on her Ravelry page – or here (on her Flick’r page).And better still — Mary has promised us one of her patterns every season for the foreseeable future!This is Mary’s third season supporting Seasons of Lace.

The first of her patterns goes to knittindiva as a runner up in the Season Spanning Lace Raffle

The second of her patterns goes to shadowdancer in the support our sponsors raffle.

Sandra Singh has offered us a prize from the Sandrasingh.com Exclusive Collection. This collection does not always include lace designs — perhaps Sandra is inviting us to expand our horizons.

This is Sandra’s fifth Season supporting Seasons of Lace. She’s also supporting us with a discount!

alpacaknitter won this in the Beaded Lace Raffle.

Susan Pandorf of Sunflower Designs has donated the entire set of patterns in her Two Towers Collection! This is Susan’s third season supporting Seasons of Lace.cathy-cate won this for 2nd place in the Lace Partnership contest.

Tiziana Sammuri of Tiziana’s Cornerjoins us this season, and has donated three of her lovely patterns. The winners will get to choose from any of her designs.strangeangel won one of these patterns as a runner up in the medium lace raffle

cmelvin won the seond of these patterns as a runner up in the Gift Lace raffle

Our very own Utlinde has donated one of her wonderful patterns. The winner will get to choose from any in her shop.

Our winner, in a random joy raffle, is hilltopkatie.

Stitch Markers

Gloria Patrie will be providing three sets of Stitch Markers this season. First, is a set of these “Radiant Butterflies”

And then, there are two sets of Art Glass Butterflies….

This is Gloria’s second season sponsoring us.

The stitch markers were won by

cmelvin – wee lace raffle, janinemy2001 – small lace raffle, & escr – medium lace raffle

Yarn

BlueMoon Fiber Arts sponsored us during our first Winter Season. They returned again for Summer 2011 — with one skein each of Silkmo and Silk Thread II

and a pattern that uses them both….This will be awarded to the winner of the Viewers’ Choice Award. – the winner: janinemy2001

Bette of BBKnits has donated two skeins of her delicious 100% Merino Lace-weight yarn — and a Knit Spot pattern.This is Bette’s fifth season supporting Seasons of Lace.This prize will be awarded to the winner of the Lace on Display competition. – the winner: mwhite

Our own Cathy-Cate (of Hither and Yarn) has donated a little something wonderful from her stash:It’s a skein from one of her favorite dyers (Twisted Fiber Art, Meg of the lovely color-changing yarn that she keeps knitting with). She chose a special skein of Muse, 50% silk / 50% merino, 300 yards of fingering to sport weight, in the “Warlock” colorway (purples) and “Evolution” style of dyeing, with gradual color changes.alittlefuzzy won this in the Resurrection Lace Raffle

Crystal Palace yarns has donated 6 skeins of Panda SilkThis is Crystal Palace Yarns’ fifth season as our sponsor.sligo won this in the Medium Lace Raffle.

Fantail Fibres has donated a skein of Touch merino 2-ply (100% pure merino, 900 yds) Hand Dyed by Marnie Kelley

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This is Fantail Fibres’ first season supporting Seasons of Lace

shadowdancer won this in the Season Spanning Raffle.

Elaine at Floating Moon Studio will be donating a skein of hand dyed yarn. Elaine’s yarns are dyed with with natural plant and pigment dyes (which do include cochineal and lac, which are insects, of course). She uses organic fibers whenever she can, to support her goal of green, sustainable, and safe products for those who prefer to walk more lightly on the earth, or who have chemical sensitivities.

Ruth at Impulse of Delight has offered a prize (more details coming). She’s also sponsoring us with a generous discount.This is Ruth’s second season supporting Seasons of Lace.

Our own Kcat79 has donated a little something wonderful from her stash: A lovely (caked) skein of Ellyn Cooper’s Yarn Sonnets in tone on tone brown. 8.75oz, 2750 yds, of lace weight wool.

This will be awarded to the winner of the Lace Partnership Competition. winner: titnil

Bev at Land O’ Lace has donated three skeins of her lovely hand-dyed yarn: 1 each of Kayla, Krissy, and Lady Katie. The winners will get to choose their colors.
This is Bev’s first season supporting Seasons of Lace.

Sligo won the Kayla in the Gift Lace Raffle.

strangeangel won the Krissy in the Rock Isalnd KAL Raffle.

MLO won the Lady Katie in the Small Lace Raffle.

Collette of Lazy Perry Ranch has donated a skein of Chiminea, — approximately Approx. 600 yards of Extra Fine Lace Yarn (1.8 oz) 70% Baby Alpaca, 20% Silk, and 10% Cashmere.

This is Colette’s first season supporting Seasons of Lace.

midnight sheep won this in the Rock Island KAL Raffle.

Elizabeth of MacKintosh Yarns has donated a skein of her lovely Celtic Sock Yarn(90% Superwash Merino/10% Nylon, 400yds/ skein) in the Twilight colorway.

This is Elizabeth’s first season supporting Seasons of Lace.And … our winner, for Supporting Our Sponsors … escr

Samantha of Samantha in Stitches has donated two lovely skeins of Footcrazy(75% Superwash Wool/25%Nylon, 100g, approx 450 yds) in Lagoon.

This is Samantha’s first season supporting Seasons of Lace.

cgirl won this in the Gift Lace Raffle.

Our own Sligo of Sligo’s Muse has donated THREE! prizes to us this Season.
First is a skein of Suri Elegance in Rosebud Pink (875 yards, 100% suri alpaca)

thislittlepiggy won this in the Beaded Lace Raffle.

and…..2 skeins of Yleislanka ( 700 meters each, 100% wool singles from Finland)

cgirl won this in the Wee Lace Raffle.

And…..

A skein of Wagtail Yarns Mohair Lace! (100% kid mohair, 50g, 410 yards in mushroom pink).

This is Sligo’s 5th Season supporting Seasons of Lace.

Other

Rosemary, of Designs by Romi , was one of our original sponsors. She has donated another of her exquisite shawl pins. She has also offered us a discount on two of her patterns. You can learn more on the Discount Page.

The Pin was awarded to MLO – whose unqualified shawl was nominated for all three judged competitions, and was winning in more than one before we realized that it was not qualified for entry. MLO’s honesty in disqualifying her own shawl was more than worth a reward…

Meg and Tami from SchoolHouse Pressare original supporters, and have been sponsoring Seasons of Lace for five seasons (Summer of Lace 08, Winter of Lace and Autumn Lace 09 and Spring into Lace ’10, and of course, Summer of Lace 2011).This season, they are sending two prizes: