Blogiversary Prizes

My Blogiversary at Vortex of Chaos is on August 14th.

Let me know in a comment at Vortex of Chaos before August 14th your first, second, and third choices from the prizes shown in this post. Please include your email address in the addy AT emailprovider DOT com format so that I can contact you without your addy getting picked up by spam bots. In case of more than one person being interested in a particular prize, I will put their names in a sock and pull one out to receive the prize.

I will choose the prizes on the Blogiversary, August 14th. I hope to come up with twenty prizes. Most of them will be sock yarn from my stash. Please keep checking this space, as I will add new prizes to this page as I come up with them.

Prizes:

1. A Weaver's Garden: Growing Plants for Natural Dyes and Fibers by Rita Buchanan; paperback, 228 pp.



2. Zen String Lotus Toes in Draconian colorway

100% superwash BFL wool; 100 g. 400 yds.

3. Pink Pencil Roving (unspun)

unspun roving in a 1 lb. bump; from Fingerlakes Woolen Mill in Genoa, NY

4. Low-Whorl spindle with ceramic whorl



5. Fyberspates sock yarn in reds and plums
100% Bluefaced Leicester Wool, hand-dyed in Wales; 100 g. 330 yds

6. Knit Picks Sock Memories in Gladiolus colorway (3 skeins)
100% merino wool, made in Peru; each skein 50 g. 192 yds


7. Knit Picks Sock Memories in Easter colorway (2 skeins)
100% merino wool, made in Peru; each skein 50 g. 192 yds

8. Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Lakeview colorway (2 skeins)
80% superwash wool, 20% nylon; each skein app. 215 yds


9. One skein of Opal wool sock yarn in the "Road to Socialism" colorway



10. One set of Harry Potter stitch markers from Sunneshine


11. One set of Kitchener Stitch markers from Girl on the Rocks


12. Chris's new audition CD--six tracks of melting, baritone goodness that will make you want to weep and, we hope, make an agent get him lots of jobs

I can make more than one of these, so you can have it in addition to something else.
Track list:
Donizetti: Cruda, funesta smani; Gounod: Avant de quitter; Verdi: Per me giunto; Bizet: Chanson du Toreador--you know, "Toreador, don't spit on the floor; use the cuspidor, that's what it's for"; Adamo: Kennst du das Land--from Little Women, Professor Bhaer proclaims his love for Jo indirectly by quoting Goethe. After you hear this you will be in love with this man, but tough luck, my daughter saw him first; Orff: Estuans interius--from Carmina Burana. This will wake you up.

13. Zen String Bliss

Light worsted weight 100% Blue-faced Leicester wool in the Emperor colorway; 100 g. 246 yards. Does it jolt you when they mix metric and English measurements on the ballband, or does it just come naturally for you?

14. 100% Mohair spinning fiber from Sakina Needles

5.2 oz. in the "Crocus Crochet" colorway. If you haven't been to her website, you are really missing out. Her product descriptions are so funny!

15. Handmaiden Cashmere (aren't you glad you checked back?)

50 g. 170 m. Comes with hat pattern. Isn't this gorgeous? I know where to get more.


16. Zen String spinning fiber

Through the Looking Glass colorway; 4 oz. Blue-faced Leicester


17. Lime & Violet Sasquatch

425 yards sock yarn in "The Stroll" colorway. I am very sensitive about pink. This is really beautiful yarn, but it is The Wrong Pink. I would not be able to finish a project in this yarn. You benefit from my weakness.


18. Dream in Color Smooshy (I am not kidding)!

See what I mean about pink? I love Smooshy but I am going to get it in blue next time. This is the Cool Fire colorway. Smooshy has 450 yds per 4 oz.


19. The 3rd Blossom Street book on CD

Yes, I have listened to it once, so it's used, but I liked it.


20. Sprites! sock yarn by Judy Jackson

350 yards wool/nylon superwash, "Angels Landing" colorway. I bet you thought it was Firebird, didn't you? Admit it, the minute you saw it you thought . . . well, I picked this up at the Great Basin Fiber Festival last summer, so it's just an example of great minds coming together.