Or Gratuitous Nipple Tassel Postage:
Click here to see my prize winning entry (pattern WILL follow when I've written it up, I promise!) on display at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Ally Pally.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Friday, October 20, 2006
Squeeeeeee!
So the prize arrived yesterday: a lovely package of needles, yarn and a book, containing:
"One Skein" by Leigh Radford of Interweave- lots of ideas and inspiration there- all projects that only take one ball of yarn to complete, which is good because each skein of yarn I won was different-
Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky Hand Dyes in Granny Smith (a warm sage-y green)
Blue Sky Alpacas Sport Weight Alpaca in Turquoise
Frog Tree Chunky Alpaca in a greenish turquoise
Alchemy Yarns Pagoda Silk in Forest somethings (delicious deep variegated greens and browns)
Be Sweet Ribbon Ball in Pale Green (I looked it up, it's the most expensive of all of them- which makes me think I REALLY don't want to cop out and just make it into a scarf. Anyone with ideas for special projects, let me know!
Swallow Needles- 2 pairs of plastic needles- one pair green, and one turquoise, one set of 4mms and one set of 4.5mms.
It's all so gorgeous I don't know where to start in terms of which yarn to play with first. But I am going to be making at least one knitted cupcake from the pattern book.
"One Skein" by Leigh Radford of Interweave- lots of ideas and inspiration there- all projects that only take one ball of yarn to complete, which is good because each skein of yarn I won was different-
Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky Hand Dyes in Granny Smith (a warm sage-y green)
Blue Sky Alpacas Sport Weight Alpaca in Turquoise
Frog Tree Chunky Alpaca in a greenish turquoise
Alchemy Yarns Pagoda Silk in Forest somethings (delicious deep variegated greens and browns)
Be Sweet Ribbon Ball in Pale Green (I looked it up, it's the most expensive of all of them- which makes me think I REALLY don't want to cop out and just make it into a scarf. Anyone with ideas for special projects, let me know!
Swallow Needles- 2 pairs of plastic needles- one pair green, and one turquoise, one set of 4mms and one set of 4.5mms.
It's all so gorgeous I don't know where to start in terms of which yarn to play with first. But I am going to be making at least one knitted cupcake from the pattern book.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
OH MY GOD!
I was wrong! I just got this e-mail from my boyfriend:
Your Monopoly Card todays reads: You have won second prize in a knitting compertion. Collect Yarn and a book to the value of £75.
Congraulations
my Awarding Winning Knitting Designer!!!
They loved the nipple tassles!!!
Your Monopoly Card todays reads: You have won second prize in a knitting compertion. Collect Yarn and a book to the value of £75.
Congraulations
my Awarding Winning Knitting Designer!!!
They loved the nipple tassles!!!
Eeeeeep!
Monday, October 16, 2006
It's not you, it's me...
To my ball of yellow King Cole yarn,
I am sorry I blamed you at such length for being the cause of the hideous tangles I spent half an hour unravelling on Saturday. I said it was because you were that sort of yarn. But I was wrong.
Either Blue Sky Alpaca Sportweight is also that sort of yarn, or, far more likely, I suck at making centre-pull balls.
I am sorry I blamed you at such length for being the cause of the hideous tangles I spent half an hour unravelling on Saturday. I said it was because you were that sort of yarn. But I was wrong.
Either Blue Sky Alpaca Sportweight is also that sort of yarn, or, far more likely, I suck at making centre-pull balls.
Friday, October 13, 2006
Just a quick one...
Teaching in 5 minutes, but I read in the latest Simply Knitting that they now have their own website: http://www.simplyknitting.co.uk/
No details on the sock competition, but they do have some prize draws up (you'll need the magazine for the passwords for them, sadly).
Go knock yourselves out!
No details on the sock competition, but they do have some prize draws up (you'll need the magazine for the passwords for them, sadly).
Go knock yourselves out!
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Getting the puns out of the way...
Hello my darlings,
My name is Ellen. I'm a teacher who knits. Despite being on a training course at the moment AND having a full timetable, and a loving boyfriend and lovely flat to look after, I have decided that for at least the next year, I am going to enter as many knitting competitions as I can. I'm going to document my successes and failures here, and of course put up the patterns (once I can work out how to do it) I come up with as I go. If they win a prize and get published elsewhere, you'll get a link to the pattern or the name of the magazine. If they don't win, or don't get printed, then I'm going to stick them up on this blog, probably as shiny Acrobat files that you can download.
I'll post links to the competitions I'm entering- and if you know of any knitting/crochet competitions happening, I'd love to hear about them so please add a comment to tell me about them!
I will not however include any of the following jokes beyond this post (hopefully):
1) Any reference to 'purls of wisdom' or 'casting (on) my purls before swine'
2) Any jokes that involve me being 'in stitches'.
3) Replacing the word 'it's' with the word 'knit's'.
4) Changing any OTHER word that rhymes with 'knit' to 'knit'.
I'll start with my first competition, which sadly I was not victorious in. Apparently, the judges of the Glamour Knitting Competition did not consider knitted nipple tassels to be wild enough for the Wild Knitting category. Perhaps I should have entered them as wearable. Either that, or my finished product, in hot pink Patons Fab and sparkly Spritz yarns, was just not glamorous enough (both the yarns have lots of acrylic in them).
I hope it wasn't to do with the yarn, because I had to stash-dive for the project. My stash has been quietly taking over my lounge, with the result that my Gorgeous Significant Other made the comment that he thought I was, in fact, the proud owner of a flock of tiny sheep. This means I have not bought any new yarn for a while. Except for the huge bag of pink and orange fun fur, which was only a fiver, and which the GSO's sister talked me into. No really.
The next couple of competitions which have come to my attention are the fabulous Purlescence Storytellers Design contest - what WOULD Cinderella knit?- the prize being the yarn and needles you need for your design (I'm guessing there will be a lot of cashmere entries)
and the
Simply Knitting Magazine sock knitting contest (no website link as the magazine doesn't have one, but it seems to be readily available at WH Smith and Borders Books)- design a pair of socks for a famous person, real or imaginary, and win lots of Colinette yarn.
The trouble with both these contests is that what I THINK Cinderella would knit might not be what the people running the contest want to have on their website, similarly the famous person I want to design socks for might not appeal to the people judging the contest, going on the kind of patterns that show up in the magazine.
My name is Ellen. I'm a teacher who knits. Despite being on a training course at the moment AND having a full timetable, and a loving boyfriend and lovely flat to look after, I have decided that for at least the next year, I am going to enter as many knitting competitions as I can. I'm going to document my successes and failures here, and of course put up the patterns (once I can work out how to do it) I come up with as I go. If they win a prize and get published elsewhere, you'll get a link to the pattern or the name of the magazine. If they don't win, or don't get printed, then I'm going to stick them up on this blog, probably as shiny Acrobat files that you can download.
I'll post links to the competitions I'm entering- and if you know of any knitting/crochet competitions happening, I'd love to hear about them so please add a comment to tell me about them!
I will not however include any of the following jokes beyond this post (hopefully):
1) Any reference to 'purls of wisdom' or 'casting (on) my purls before swine'
2) Any jokes that involve me being 'in stitches'.
3) Replacing the word 'it's' with the word 'knit's'.
4) Changing any OTHER word that rhymes with 'knit' to 'knit'.
I'll start with my first competition, which sadly I was not victorious in. Apparently, the judges of the Glamour Knitting Competition did not consider knitted nipple tassels to be wild enough for the Wild Knitting category. Perhaps I should have entered them as wearable. Either that, or my finished product, in hot pink Patons Fab and sparkly Spritz yarns, was just not glamorous enough (both the yarns have lots of acrylic in them).
I hope it wasn't to do with the yarn, because I had to stash-dive for the project. My stash has been quietly taking over my lounge, with the result that my Gorgeous Significant Other made the comment that he thought I was, in fact, the proud owner of a flock of tiny sheep. This means I have not bought any new yarn for a while. Except for the huge bag of pink and orange fun fur, which was only a fiver, and which the GSO's sister talked me into. No really.
The next couple of competitions which have come to my attention are the fabulous Purlescence Storytellers Design contest - what WOULD Cinderella knit?- the prize being the yarn and needles you need for your design (I'm guessing there will be a lot of cashmere entries)
and the
Simply Knitting Magazine sock knitting contest (no website link as the magazine doesn't have one, but it seems to be readily available at WH Smith and Borders Books)- design a pair of socks for a famous person, real or imaginary, and win lots of Colinette yarn.
The trouble with both these contests is that what I THINK Cinderella would knit might not be what the people running the contest want to have on their website, similarly the famous person I want to design socks for might not appeal to the people judging the contest, going on the kind of patterns that show up in the magazine.
More, probably including the pattern for my Dita Von Tassels, later!
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