(Drum Roll)
The method I used to select the winner:
I first copied all of the email/blog
post entries into a spread sheet.
Then I sorted them alphabetically,
(which changed the order in a non-random way) then put them through a
randomizer.... and the top four entries are:
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1—kangath
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2--Beth
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3—Red
Emma
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4—jwgh
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If possible (that is, if you have a
Ravelry ID or a mail to feature on your blog) I have also sent you a
email notification. (BethW—I hope you are reading this blog and
checking back—You have 1 week from today to send me a notice—you
can send me an email via Ravelry, (oftroy) or send a comment to my
blog (I won't post your address!), or go to my web page and find a
mail to link there.
Kangath—you have first choice
of the prizes, and first choice of yarn and needles:
Prize 1—deluxe project bag,
notion bag, with notions (folding scissor, tape measure, 2 beginning
of round markers, a tapestry needle), yarn and needles. (Plus
bonuses)
Prize 2-- simple project bag,
some useful notions (folding scissor, tape measure and tapestry
needle, yarn and needles. (plus bonuses)
Prize 3—Wendy Johnson's Socks Toe
Up Socks (book in a box), yarn and needles (a bonus)
Prize 4—White yarn for dyeing
(made into a hand) a microway safe dye pot, food coloring for dyeing,
disposable non latex gloves (a bonus)
Choices are Yarns
Deborah Norvilles 50%wool/25%bamboo/25%
nylon in self striping color way Teal Tease (2 50gm skeins))
Paton's Kroy (80% wool/20% nylon in
self striping color way Sweet Stripes (2 50g skeins))
Lion Brand Sock Ease, 80% wool/20%nylon
in solid Pink, color way Cotton Candy, 1 100g skein
(The white yarn is reserved for the dye
kit, and is not in play)
Needles:
2 Inox circulars 16 inches long/size
2/2.75m
3 Susan Bates circulars, 1 16 inch, 1
24 inch, 1 29 inch, all 3, size 2/2.75m
1 Clover Bamboo needles, +1 bonus (a
set of 6 needles,not 5 needles!) size 2/2.75m
(because it's so damn easy to break a
size 2 bamboo needle!)
BethW, be sure to give a first and
second choice—since Kangath gets first choice.
Red Emma, a first, second and third
choice, from you too, please... (You never know—the heart wants
what it wants, and you might end up with what you want too!)
JWGH—alas, alack, you get Hobson's
choice*! (Hobson's choice is no choice at all!) but you'll still get
something—making you luckier than many others!
In other news, a few more (oh, so
long!) rounds of my Peacock shawl knit... and I realized I miscounted
the stitches in each repeat—there are 24, not 22 (I was knitting
the correct number, just not counting correct)and 30 X 24 equal 720
stitches per round! So, while completing 4 rounds doesn't at first
sound like much—It's a mountain of stitches knit!
There are still many rounds to go
before I finish chart 2—but I get a break and will be decreasing in
the last dozen rounds. Not a lot, but any number smaller than 720 is
an improvement! The chart ends at 18 stitches per repeat—a mere
540 stitches—piece of cake after way to many rounds of 720!
I moved onto a longer needle—I was
working on a 29inch circ—now I am onto a 40 inch (1 m) one. Things
are bit less crowded.
