And the Super Secret 100K Grand Prize Winner!!!!

I had a super-secret drawing from the names of all those who entered all 3 100K Celebration Contests, and Kate/Massachusetts won!

Kate your prizes are: about 1.5 ozs brown organic cotton sliver, 1 undyed silk cap, 3 batts (maybe 2 ozs) SD wool/silk noil/mohair, a skein of Knit Picks Spinnaker (pima cotton, bulky weight), a hank of Knit Picks Bare Natural Laceweight yarn (88o yds), a skein of hand-dyed fingering weight Merino Sock Yarn (not superwash) that should knit up in a spiral design, a copy of I Heart Felt, a copy of Yarns to Dye For, and a copy of Funeral Food (the first Tory Bauer/Delphi mystery).

I do believe that Kate has entered every one of the blog drawings so far, and I'm thrilled that she's the Super Secret 100K Grand Prize Winner!!!

send me your snail mail address, and how you'd like the books signed, and I'll get your prize package in the mail tomorrow, Kate.

kathleentaylor1952 at gmail dot com

100K Book Drawing Winners!!!

Steffi gets the uncut vintage paper doll books

lizzyhelen gets the 4 Tory Bauer Mysteries

jennifer gets I Heart Felt

Cara gets Yarns to Dye For

Congratulations!

e-mail me your snail mail address and I'll get the packages in the mail tomorrow. I'm not sending any of these things priority, so it'll take a few days to arrive. Everyone but steffi, let me know how you'd like your books signed (just my signature, inscribed to you, or inscribed to anyone you'd like).

Thanks everyone for entering!!

100K Yarn Drawing Winners!!!!

Kathy gets the 2-50 gr balls of Fortissima Sock yarn

teish gets the 2 skeins of handspun merino

kaarkaar gets the 3 hanks of novelty handspun yarns

leah (darkest blaze) gets the hand-dyed worsted weight yarn

Congratulations!

e-mail me your snail mail address, and I'll get these packages sent out tomorrow. I'm not using priority for any of them, so it'll take a few days for them to arrive.

kathleentaylor1952 at gmail dot com

100K Spinning Drawing Winners!!!

Splindarella gets the dyed Mohair Locks

Vampy gets the Gray Romney pencil roving

Anne gets the Chocolate Romney with the copper Glitz pencil roving

Chibicat gets the organic cotton sliver

Congratulations!!!!

e-mail me with your snail mail address and I'll get these packets in the mail tomorrow (I'm not sending this stuff priority, so it'll take a few days to arrive)

(kathleentaylor1952 at gmail dot com)

100K Drawings Now Closed

I'm not taking any more entries in the 100K drawings. I'll be back soon with a list of the winners.

Thanks everyone for entering, and all the wonderful comments!

100K Celebration Drawings!

Just in case you don't see all of the posts below- today the blog went over 100K hits, and to celebrate, I'm having 3 separate drawings- Books, Yarn, and Spinning. Enter by commenting in the proper post. You can enter in all 3 drawings, but you can only win 1 prize. Winners will be announced sometime April 29.

100K Book Drawing! Prizes!!!

To enter the 100K Book Drawing, leave a comment, or just your name, for this post. You may enter all 3 drawings, but you can only win 1 prize. Winners will be announced sometime Tuesday April 29.

Book Drawing Prize #1: A copy of I Heart Felt, signed as the winner desires.

Book Drawing Prize #2: A copy of Yarns to Dye For, signed as the winner desires.

Book Drawing Prize #3: 4 of my mysteries- Funeral Food, The Hotel South Dakota, Mourning Shift, and Cold Front (I don't have extra copies of Sex and Salmonella, or Foreign Body). These are the Tory Bauer mysteries, set in a small town in South Dakota. There is no fiber content in these stories, but lots of sex and bad words, so if those things bother you, say so in your entry so you don't win this prize. These are new, never opened paperbacks. They can be signed as the winner desires.

Book Drawing Prize #4: 2 vintage, uncut paper doll books. These are Lowe books, published in the late 60's or early 70's, and cost 10 cents originally. Susan, #1812, and Cindy #1814. These books are in good condition (the upper corners were cut off- I suppose they were remaindered), and the Cindy book has tape on the cover. Each has a cute little girl doll printed on the cover, and 4 pages of clothes, with some dresses on the back cover. These books have not been featured as Thursday Tab sets yet.

The 100K Book Drawing is now open!

The 100K Yarn Drawing! Prizes!!!

To enter the 100K yarn Drawing, leave a comment, or just your name, for this post. You may enter all 3 drawings, but you can only win 1 prize. Winners will be announced Tuesday April 29, sometime after 8:00am, CDT.

Yarn Prize #1: 158 yds, 6.1 ozs total, handspun Merino Bulky 2-ply yarn. The Purple skein has 93 yds, the Pink/White skein has 65 yds. This is extremely soft and squooshy yarn, and it should be enough for a hat.

Yarn Prize #2: About 2 ozs of handspun Novelty Yarns, 130 yds of Purple Romney/Silk Noil/Angora boucle bound with a metallic thread. This yarn won a 2nd Place in the Novelty Yarn category at the North Country Fiber Fair (ribbon included), 20 yds of Mohair Lamb Boucle yarn (spun from the same locks in the Spinning Drawing), and 36 yds of green Merino Lamb novelty yarn bound with metallic thread. The small skeins aren't enough for more than an accent stripe in a larger project, but there should be enough of the Romney/Silk/Angora for a simple scarf.

Yarn Prize #3: 2 50 gr balls Fortissima Socka Colori self-patterning sock yarn, in the old Mexiko Colorway. I bought an entire bag of this yarn several years ago, and it is now discontinued. It's one of my favorite self-patterning designs.

Yarn Prize #4: 100gr hand-dyed worsted weight wool. This yarn has been dyed in a graduated color band colorway of peaches and browns. The color will gradually change throughout the skein.

The 100K Yarn Drawing is now open!

The 100K Spinning Drawing! Prizes!!!!

To enter in the 100K Spinning Drawing, leave a comment, or just your name, for this post. You may enter all 3 drawings, but you can only win 1 prize. Winners will be announced tomorrow, April 29.

Spinning Prize #1: 4.8 ozs Brown Organic Cotton Sliver. If you want to try cotton spinning, this is the stuff to use. It spins easily, and the yarn is lovely. You need to boil the skeins to bring out the final color, and to set the twist.

Spinning Prize #2: Just over 4 ozs of hand-dyed Mohair Lamb locks. These locks are incredibly soft and shiny. They've been dyed green, pink, purple, and blue, and I threw in some undyed locks as well. They are VM- free. You can tail-spin these for a novelty yarn, you can flick them open and spin them that way, or you can blend them with other fibers. These locks were used in the small skein in the Yarn Drawing.

Spinning Prize #3: An 8 oz bump of medium Gray Romney pencil roving. This is lovely Romney and it spins like a dream.

Spinning Prize #4: An 8 oz bump of Chocolate Brown Romney pencil roving that has been blended with just a bit of copper glitz for sparkle. It is also lovely and it spins like a dream.

The Spinning Drawing is Officially Open!

Happy 100K! Contests! Prizes!!!

I started this blog on August 31, 2007 (not 2008, as has been gently pointed out...), with no idea if I was going to be able to come up with anything to say, or if anyone out there would be interested in my blather. Well, this morning, not quite 8 months later, the blog got it's 100,000 th hit. Now, I account for several a day, because I check in to see if there are comments, and I use the links on the right side of the page to read other people's blogs, but still, I haven't read my own posts 100k times. I'm amazed, proud, and so pleased that you all keep coming back.

To celebrate, and to thank you all for stopping by, I'm going to have 3 separate drawings for prizes! You may enter all of the contests if you like, though you can only win 1 prize. The contests will be listed separately, enter by posting a comment (or just your name) in the specific contest posts. Though you may certainly comment on this post, doing so won't enter you in any contests. The contests will be open from the moment I post them, until tomorrow morning (April 29), whenever I get up to the computer, which will probably be around 8:00am CDT.

The Book Drawing will have 4 prizes: a copy of I Heart Felt, a copy of Yarns to Dye For, copies of 4 of my mysteries (the only ones I have extra copies for), and 2 uncut vintage paper doll books from the early 70's.

The Yarn Drawing will have 4 prizes: 6.1 ozs (158 yds) bulky handspun Merino yarn, 2 ozs of handspun novelty yarns, including a skein that won 2nd prize at the North Country Fiber Fair, 2 balls (100gr) of Fortissima Socka yarn, the Mexiko self-patterning stuff that has been discontinued, and 3 ozs (about 200 yds) worsted weight wool dyed in a graduated color band.

The Spinning Drawing will have 4 prizes: 4.8 ozs brown organic cotton sliver, just over 4 ozs hand-dyed mohair lamb locks, 8 ozs medium gray Romney roving, 8 ozs chocolate brown Romney roving that has been blended with just a bit of copper glitz.

Let the entering begin!