New Prizes!

Posted on | August 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

Wow. I am overwhelmed! What started with one tentative little email brought 3 boxes of goodies to my doorstep this afternoon from friends old and new who have generously donated their wares to support my Breast Cancer 3Day fundraising contest. I am so thrilled to be able to offer these prizes as incentives to donate to this great cause (if you’re just joining us, please read up here and here – I will consolidate all this info for ease of use soon!

So, without further ado – the new prizes!!

 The Sanguine Gryphon Eidos – 390 yards of gorgeous handpainted superwash sock yarn. You all know I’m a huge fan of Gryphon’s gorgeous colorways. Beautiful no?

A handcrafted pottery yarn bowl from The KnitWitch. Beautiful and SO much better than letting the yarn dance around your lap and occasionally to the floor as you knit and tug from the ball (or is that just me?)

A handcrafted pottery spindle bowl, also from The KnitWitch. This lovely spindle bowl is for use with Tibetan or Russian spindles, or other types of wood supported spindles. Both bowls have felted bases to protect your tabletops.

Nancy’s Knit Knacks Easy Lace Scarf Kit, including 2 skeins (260 yards) of heathered Digit fingering weight wool yarn in Wisteria, and a lovely lace scarf pattern.

Nancy’s Knit Knacks knitting tools. Amazing. I could not fit them all in the photo, so here’s a list of all the great knitter’s tools Nancy has donated!

1 Knee-sel (like a copy holder for your knee – ingenious!)
1 set circular needle ID tags, small
1 set circular needle ID tags, large
1 Needle and Crochet Hook Gauge
1 Knit-Kard set (handy reference cards for knitters)
1 Knit-Light
1 Project Kard set of 10
1 Set of 2 DPN WIP Tubes
1 WPI Tool Kit

I may keep this one together as the ultimate knitter’s tool kit, or break it up depending on the final number of donors, Nancy was extremely generous!

Thank you Gryphon, Brittany and Nancy, for your generous donations – I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your support of this little contest and this cause that is so near to my heart! And all of you who have donated so far, commented, emailed and linked to this contest – You all are amazing! Your donations are going to support such a great cause, and your kind words of support mean more than you could possibly know. THANK YOU!!

I’m debating how best to handle consolidating the contest information – i.e. rules, prizes, and donation info, so it is easier to find and isn’t scattered across several posts (YES, that means there are MORE prizes on the way soon, I can hardly believe it!!) I will probably set up a page like last year, but I also haven’t figured out how to archive that information and still make it available. So that may take me a few days – please bear with me while I work this through. This contest already dwarfs the mini-one that I had last year and I don’t quite know what I’m doing! And there will be actual knitting content soon – the Sweet-Soon-to-be made her debut this week, and though her little sweater isn’t *quite* complete, after meeting her today I’m quite sure she’s got some growing to do before she’ll fit into it, so that buys me just a bit more time!

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