Last night as I listened to two owls chit-chatting in my back garden, I counted up all the entries for my New Year Giveaway - y'know, the "everything you need to teach yourself crochet" one I've been harping on about on Twitter for the last month. There were 202 entries in all. Two hundred and two! Amazing. Thank you! I had no idea that it would be so popular, but it seems that there are a lot of you out there who would like to try your hand at learning a new skill, and have plumped for crochet as The One.
So, I counted up all the entries......
wrote every single entry down on a little slip of paper.....
folded them up into neat little squares.....
and popped them in my new sewing box. I mixed them all up and moved them all around, and.....
picked one out! The winner is.......
Belinda Norrington (@B_wildacre)!
Very many congratulations Belinda, I will wrap up your goodies today and scurry down to the post office and hopefully the little parcel of crochet wonderfulness will wing it's way to you by tomorrow morning.
A little reminder of what Belinda has won:
You must let me know how you get on with learning - have patience, and stay relaxed. If you don't get a stitch the first time, don't give up. Try again, and it will come.
Ahhhh.....passing my little pearls of wisdom onto the next learner crocheter, that feels good. And I've not yet been crocheting a full year! It's addictive: the more you learn, the more you want to learn, and the more yarn you will buy. Yup. I promised I wouldn't, but I did. Oops!
Have a great day everyone, who has snow where they are? Not even a whiff of snow here in Oxford.
Love, Emmalemonade x x
What a lovely giveaway - Sorry to have missed it. I will look out for the book though as am trying to teach my left handed daughter to crochet and am finding it difficult as I am right handed! :)
ReplyDeleteOh dear, I'm sorry you missed it too! I'm sure I'll have another one soon though, I've really enjoyed my first foray into the world of giveaways!
DeletePlease do buy the book, it really was the only thing that i found clear enough to understand, and that had left-handed pictures too :) x x
Hi Emma, I've just stumbled across your blog (from Twitter I think :s)and a wonderful blog it is too! I've joined you so I shall be popping back to see what you are up to soon. I too lurve crochet and am working on a huge crochet cat at the moment, called Chester. If you would like to have a look, I would love to see you over at http://fiddlyfingers.blogspot.com/ See you again very soon, Alison aka Fiddly Fingers!
ReplyDeleteThanks Alison, I shall hop over and take a look at your blog now :) Thanks for stopping by x x
DeleteThey have arrived! I am just so chuffed, thank you so much! My fingers are itchy to get going now, will let you know how I get on! *excited*
ReplyDeleteBelinda xx
I just came over from Belinda's blog, after seeing her gorgeous crochet bundle that arrived from you. That little red heart is ADORABLE!!
ReplyDeleteI really like your blog (as Belinda knew I would!!) . I've signed up to stalk you!!
Sarahx
What Sarah said...,! Ha! Lovely blog - you see if Belinda hadn't entered your giveaway we wouldn't have found you!
ReplyDeleteGoing to enjoy reading your previous posts and will follow on twitter.
Nicki xx
Snow? We haven't even seen cold weather yet this year in Texas. I long for a single snowflake, and dream of tall drifts for sledding. Love your blog.
ReplyDeleteAnna
Thank you so much for stopping by Anna, it's lovely to have you, and all the way from Texas too!
DeleteStill no snow here in Oxford, although that's quite a good thing really because I want to be able to get to Cardiff (Wales) tomorrow evening!
Enjoy your weekend x x