Pre-Summer Contest!
... so that just happens to work out great for a first contest, don't ya think? Here goes-First place winner will receive 1 copy of the pattern along with 4 hanks of Blue Sky Dyed Cotton in their choice of colors! Second & third place winners will each receive a copy of the pattern and whatever other goodies happen to jump into the package just before sealing and sending...
The warmer weather has moved in, even here in Minnesota, and I will be casting on a tank of my own very soon- maybe 2 as I can't seem to decide which color to do!
Okay, so here are the contest rules- all you have to do is:
1.) Leave a comment on this post letting me know what color you want and mention who's blog you heard about the contest on (if you jumped from a blog and if you can remember...)
2.) Then head to your blog and post a list of your summer knitting goals (there may be an end-of-summer contest of some sort to celebrate summer knitting accomplishments...) and mention this contest (with a link to this post- http://www.skeinsherway.com/2007/05/pre-summer-contest.html)
3.) Lastly e-mail me with the link to your post! (ali AT skeins her way DOT com) Be sure to mention in your post for anyone who follows your link to let me know what blog they jumped from as every 'referral' will earn you another entry!
Contest will run through the end of the month (May) and my talented children will draw three winning names (or secret blogging identities) out of a container of some sort on June 1st.
Think about your summer knitting, make your lists, and get blogging!
Happy knitting,
ali
posted by ali at
11:45 PM
232 Comments:
Wow, what a great contest!! I'm in, I just have to get my goals together...for your tank, I am feeling that green is what it needs to be.
That is a fantastic contest! I will one up you on the blog front...I will mention it on the podcast...how about that? How many entries do I get now :-)
As soon as my camera is up and running I will post my goals and all the other such information you request.
In the mean time...I would like the tank in chocolate brown!
Marly
knitthing.blogspot.com
knitthing.mypodcast.com
yarnthing.blogspot.com
Hey, you should donate something for the podcast rumble I am doing! Think about it and let me know! Email me and I can give you better details :-)
I'm in, too! What fun! It'll be really good for me to state out loud my summer knitting goals. There are a few ones floating around, but I really should formalize the list. I just went over to kpixie to remind myself of the blue sky cotton colors. I like greens like Pickle and Fern. I also like neutrals like Expresso, Toffee and Stone. As for brights, Tomato and Pumpkin are up my ally, Ali. :)
Great contest idea, Ali!
Color? Pickle, yum. I think I'll go get my summer knitting ducks in a row!
I'm in! I was going to post a list soon anyway. This is good motivation. :) Should I win - I never win, but just in case, I'd like thistle.
Count me in!!!! Although I am somewhat on the dysfunctional side and will have to really try hard to meet my goals. And as for colors suggestions.... greens, blues, berries. I would be so excited to win that just any old color would do!
I'm in... too simple of a contest not to join! I really like the "shrimp" pink colour.
OK, off to post! http://gradschoolknitter.blogspot.com
i have a few tanks i would like to make. in cotton. but my primary project will be a lace shawl for my daughter's bat mitzvah in october.
What a great contest idea!
Gives me a reason to stick to my goals ;)
As for colours, I'd love fern. Looks so lovely!
Ooh, I'm in, too. I like pickle! This will be a good way of organizing what I want to knit.
ali,
I'm not sure if you got my first comment, so here's Take 2:
The color of yarn I would like is lemonade. This will help me plan out my goals!
I'm all in for such a great contest!!.. I followed the link from dysfunctional knitter and voila here I am.
My color is BLUEEEEE!!!
Good luck everyone.
I love the fitted tank! I don't know how I have missed that pattern because it would fit my body type really well...anyhoo...I'd like to knit it up in Thistle. And I'll be posting my summer knitting goals tomorrow a.m. Thanks!
I followed the link from Heather at Yarn Yenta. I think this is a great pattern and even better idea. I hadn't even thought about planning out my summer knitting. I LOVE it!!! If I win, I would like pumpkin. Thank you for doing this!
I love Periwinkle!! Love the pattern and thanks for such a great contest!!!
I would like blue or purple. This is a great idea!
YAY!!!Great contest, very well thought out.. kind of funny as I am right now knitting my very first Blue Sky Pattern he Cropped Cardi. Your pattern is awesome! There are so many great colors to choose from ummmmm....if I have to pick one #1 lemongrass- but I also think it would be cool to do that long ribbing in orchid and the burst out into lotus on top!
Come on kiddles pick me pick me!
Sheknits
http://www.sheknits7.blogspot.com
oops and i meant to be a nice blogger and give props to plumpknitter as that is how I found out about his contest!
Sheknits
http://www.sheknits7.blogspot.com
Just dropping by to say that Amanda of Clothesknit (http://clothesknit.typepad.com/clothesknit/) referred me so drop another marker in the hat for her!
What a cute idea! I'm over here from Amanda's blog (Clothesknit).
i followed the link from clothesknit - and i have no idea what my summer knitting will look like, but it sounds like a great contest!
Amanda/clothesknit has posted her goals and I'm here because she referred me. She really wants to win!
I'm here via Amanda at clothesknit. She really deserves to win (did that score her an extra entry?)
What a fun idea!
I'd like the yarn in tomato :)
count me in! I came by way of Clothesknit.
I'd love to make the tank in indigo- it's beautiful! I will post my goals this afternoon!
I followed the link from Clothesknit.
I have to admit, I think this contest sounds kind of difficult to me. But, as long as everybody's enjoying it and I don't have to count ALL the links and entries ;-)
It was nice to find your blog and I was following a link from Amanda at clothesknit She so deserves to win! ;-)
Hate to do this to you, but you're tagged. See my blog.;)
Hey there! Nice pattern! Amanda from clothesknit sent me here, I hope she gets many entries!
Beautiful tank...I am here in support of clothesknit...whoo!
Great contest found out about it from shelby knits. If I was to win i would love the carribbean colourway. So summery.
Cool contest! And I love your tank pattern. If I were to win I'd love the pickle color : )
What a fun contest idea! I came here from Amanda's blog (clothesknit), and while I don't stand a chance of winning, I think that tank would look fabulous in any color, but I would knit it in blue!
Hi! Awesome pattern - I'm in! I found this via Shelby's blog.
I knit this pattern for my sister last month and was SO tempted to keep it!!! I'd love to make one for me in a surprise color!!! I just love surprises.
Add me, and I jumped here by way of shelby and I love the shrimp colorway!! WOOHOO My first contest entry and contest all in one day!!!
I would love to do that tank in black. I'll post about this tomorrow and email you the specific link.
Whoops! I found this contest via Knitting in Pink.
What a great looking tank! Thistle looks like a lovely color. (Shelby sent me over :)
Hi There,
I have been admiring this pattern on KPixie for a while. This is indeed a great contest! I made my way here via Amanda's blog ClothesKnit. This is a great incentive on getting my summer knitting act together! I'll be posting on this and adding my own link soon!
Great contest - (I'm visiting from My Knitting and ME (http://myknittingandme.blogspot.com/)
Wow - gorgeous colours to pick from too (I know my chances of winning are slim, but hey...)
Fern would be my first choice colour.
Now to post my own list on www.pettigrew.org.uk/anne
Great contest!! I heard about it from
Knitting in Pink http://knittinginpink.blogspirit.com/
This makes me have to put all my goals down on paper...Hmmm. I will have to think about this one.
I love the tank, it would look great in red.
Wish me luck!!
I'm in. Now, some knitting goals for the summer (other than survive and still be able to knit at the end of it I am assuming!) I love the thistle colour. I found you at My knitting & Me.
Hi there. What a great contest.
I made my way via Amanda's Blog Clothesknit also.
I recommend Blue Sky's Berry color - can't remember the name - but it is gorgeous in person.
:)
Happy knitting.
Holly
It's a lovely pattern and as for the colours - wow! so hard to choose just one, they are wonderful....but I think I have to go with Caribbean.
I got her from Anne's blog - http://www.pettigrew.org.uk/anne/index.php
A good incentive to make out a goals list! I saw this at Amanda's/clothesknit's blog, and hopped over. I would like Toffee, I think. (I've been all over the color wheel in my thoughts - blue! no, pink! no, green! - but I think neutral is the way to go. My closet looks like a rainbow barfed.
Hmmm, I love the colorway Orchid! I found my way here via Amanda over at Clothesknit.
I'm off to post my goals!
Amanda (clothesknit) sent me. I love the Thistle colour and I will work on my list of summer goals.
What a fun neat contest. I like turqoise colors blues and greens.
I came from Wendies woolies which resulted from Google Alerts.
http://www.wendyswoolies.com/2007/05/16/summer-knitting-goals-contest/
Okay im off to finish the contest thank you for making this so fun
hugs kat
I was catching up on both Jennifer (craftlily) and Amanda (clothesknit)blogs and discovered the contest. I will definitely be posting my goals as they are lofty. Color...caribbean.
Clothesknit referred me to your blog.
Chris at stumbling over chaos sent me.... I'm special! Or something!
I'd love it in azul. In fact, I nearly bought the yarn for this in azul..... I am amazed to well, know who did this! Because it's an awesome design.
Summer plans? Linking to the contest? Will do :)
I love this idea; I'm all for self-promotion! I'd like the tank in olive green.
I saw this on: http://shelbyknits2.blogspot.com/
Jennifer
www.whatididatschooltoday.com
What a great contest, and what a cute tank! I would love to knit it up in "Thistle"!
I saw a link to your contest over at Shelby Knits.
I came via clothesknit. Have fun!
Pretty tank! I'd pick Thistle or Fern. Found your contest via Chris/Stumbling Over Chaos. Gonna work on my goals now...
Hey Ali! I didn't know the desiger of this (much coveted) pattern lived in Minnesota! Yay! I'd totally do the top in Poppy, and I wandered over from a visit to Chaos and Mayhem.
Goals are up, but I have to go do the linky thing!
What a great design- congratulations on being published! My color choice for BSA Cotton would always be Pickle, and I came here via Chris/Stumbling Over Chaos.
I found out at Stumbling over Chaos-I guess greens or blues would be fab. Love the pattern!
Chris, May and Chaos mentioned your contest today. I love the periwinkle. Excuse me while I finish my requirements for your way-cool contest.
I love the caibbean dyed cotton yarn.
Found your contest at shelbyknits.
I came over from Clothesknits. I would pick Cumin. I love the pattern. My blog is at randommeanderings.typepad.com and I am posting my summer plans in a bit.
what a cute top - and great idea for a contest. I came over to your blog because Amanda (clothesknit.com) sent me. Tos another ticket in the hat for her! Yumm - Blue sky Alpaca
The color Mediterranean is gorgeous! It was a hard choice. I heard about you from clothesknit.
Here's the link to my list of summer goals and the mention of this contest. I would be the "Chris and/or Chaos and/or Mayhem" mentions in your comments! Thanks.
I heard about your contest from Amysue, randommeanderings.typepad.com, I just posted my goals in my much neglected blog.
This is going to be fun.
1.) I love the indigo and Chaos Chris sent me.
2.) Goals will be posted in a few minutes
3.) Email will be on it's way soon too!
I found you from http://www.woollyinterlude.com/blog/.
I've posted on my blog and sent you an email! Were I too win...I'd want Circus Peanut. What a lovely peachy color.
Dude, I posted my goals! My pep's better now let me down.
Chocolate Brown...Chocolate Brown!
LOL!
Marly
knitthing.blogspot.com
knitthing.mypodcast.com
yarnthing.blogspot.com
Kitkatknit sent me.
Pickle is the colour for me!
How fun! I think I like Mediterranean or Thistle. I heard of this from Limedragon.
a khaki or neutral color would lend this tank top the most versatility. I came upon you via Cindy at Knit Won Purl Too.
What a great idea! I like the new color Mediterranean.
I'm off to post my goals. :)
Great tank! Great idea! And I love the periwinkle color.
I definitely need some goal setting here! Or some "knitalin" LOL
Ooooooh!!! Good idea for a contest & gorgeous pattern btw :) I linked from Marly at Yarn Thing(http://knitthing.blogspot.com/). I loooove the Thistle colourway. Can't wait to go post my summer goals...
- Jenn
http://www.rhymeswithsocks.blogspot.com/
What a great idea for a contest! and btw, your pattern is absolutely gorgeous, congratulations! I followed Marly (http://knitthing.blogspot.com/ to your site. Oh, and I loooove the Thistle colourway. Thanks!
- Jenn
http://www.rhymeswithsocks.blogspot.com/
I was just looking at that pattern! I knit up a swatch of the Organic Cotton and fell in love with it and the shell would be a great choice. I gotta say I love the dyed cottons too, though. Orchid is probably my favorite color.
I'm another one that came over from Amanda of Clothesknit (http://clothesknit.typepad.com/clothesknit/).
For some strange reason my email will not go through to you, so here's the link to my post:
http://www.moonfrog.com/?p=220
Here on the other side of the World it's Winter knitting..... do we qualify too??? I saw this on Random Meanderings at Middle Age!!!
Great contest! I sent you an email but I"m not sure you are going to get it, I got a really weird error message.
My entry's here:
http://anastaciaknits.blogspot.com/2007/05/entering-contest.html
And I'd love any color you'd like to send me, but orange, green & blue are my favorite colors.
And congrats on your design! How exciting.
I found my way here via Amanda at clothesknit. I know she would love to win and I send along my best for her. If I were to make this very nice tank (my upper arms are not in such good shape!), I'd pick either, tomato, pickle or maybe pumpkin. Actually all the colors are very pretty.
What a great contest - I found you through uberstrickenfrau at http://uberstrickenfrau.blogspot.com/
My goals are posted here:
http://ennavic.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/contest-post/
Disclaimer: We're in opposite seasons to you and I won't be doing much knitting until Sept in any case so have done goals for the rest of the year.
Colourwise I would normally go for mediterranean or thistle but I'm trying to widen the colours I use so I will go for Fern.
Have a great weekend.
Hi Ali!
I found you from Chris's blog, www.stumblingoverchaos.com. I love the color Shrimp and think this is a super fun contest. Good luck with it! My goals are now listed on my blog, http://curlyknitter.wordpress.com
I'm IN! I'm here via Texas Purl Gurl. I'm feeling THISTLE. Great contest!
I think it would look good in a deep plum oooor a lilac.
That is a great tank. Great contest too. I am in!
This is an awesomely awesome contest! I'm totally in for this one! I think that I would like to knit the tank in Espresso for my sister! I came from Amanda's blog (clothesknit).
I've been wanting to try a tank, but haven't seen a pattern I liked...till now! so how perfect is your contest. I saw it Robyn's blog (http://robynislookingatthestars.blogspot.com/)
Turquoise blue would be my choice. I'm definitely being goal oriented this summer, so it will be great to get them in writing! thanks
What a fun contest! I posted my goals today at 5elementknitr.blogspot.com. I first heard about the contest at knittinginpink, then at Stumbling Over Chaos, then at Uberstrickenfrau. Sweet!
Ooh how exciting! I saw this contest at Knitting Err Wut? (http://k2tog-p2tog.blogspot.com/). As for color? Um... Indigo. Your tank design is very cute.
I'm here from Diva Knitting and tomato is my choice.
Summer knitting goals..finish something? Goodness, that's what it has come to, I believe!
Congrats on the pattern!
Lemongrass! What lovely colors they have. mmmm...need more yarn...
Craftylilly had your link on her blog.
Plans for my summer knitting (at least in their initial stages) are here
what a fun contst ... I like the looks of pumpkin or pickle re: colour.
I followed the link from http://theaddknitter.blogspot.com/
Thanks again for the chance to win on this cool contest!
This is such a neat contest! I'll post the list right away. I think I'd go with Sky. Ooh, and I got here via Chris at Stumbling Over Chaos.
BTW, I'm having trouble with your RSS feed. It seems to be rerouting to your main page all the time.
Cool contest and congrats on the pattern publication. I heard about you from Stumbling Over Chaos.
Colour my entry Expresso (621).
How fun is this? I heard about it from Yarn Thing, http://www.knitthing.blogspot.com. Colors would be Thistle or Mediterranean. Now, off to compose my own list of what I want to accomplish.
I'm in. What a good idea. I love the tank. I would like Honeydew 602.
They're all so pretty, but I'll say azul.
To be official, I found you through Kaity's blog at http://kaityvr.wordpress.com/
Colors? natural, pink, or light green.
I came over from Jean's blog Golden Purl to enter the contest. I love Periwinkle and Sky Blue. I've just posted my list.
I got here from Needle Exchange.
I am all about the lemongrass colour. Gorgeous. Will post my goals today.
www.beentsy.blogspot.com
My favorite is Mediterranean
632. I found you through The Curly Knitter. Thanks for hosting such a great contest!
What a lovely pattern! (And what a fun contest, too. Thanks for your generosity.) It's hard to choose just one of all of those luscious colors, but I think I'd go with poppy.
Greetings from The Netherlands :-) I found your blog and the contest through a link in Yarn Yenta's blog (link:http://yarnyenta.blogspot.com/2007/05/summer-goals.html)
My favourite colour is green, but I am in for blue as well :-)
Cool Contest! My fav colors are green and blue, so anywhere in the family would be great!
I find your blog through Knittymama blog but I saw on a few others as well.
I love green and yellow.
funny i found this, i was just looking at this very yarn and your pattern today! so let's see, i found you through diva knitting ( http://www.divaknitting.com/blog/ )
my two favorite colors are 1st Pickle (633), and 2nd Carribean (630)
my blog is http://absolutejeanius.blogspot.com/
beautiful tank too!
This is a great motivational contest! I found it via Knittymama. I think I would like a dark green tank! :)
Chris from StumblingOverChaos led me here.
I like shrimp but my DD likes aloe, more than likely anything i knit will be for her.
I tried to email you my link but it came up as message refused.
the link is http://knittykittykat.blogspot.com/2007/05/summer-goals.html#comments
Very creative contest! I love your pattern too! I found you via Amanda (Clothesknit). That tank would be lovely in Tomato or Cumin. Or many other colors--again, great pattern.
Just dropping by to say that I read about this on Clothesknit - hopefully that'll get her another entry! ;o)
I won't be participating, I try to avoid organization any way I can *grin*
I followed a link here from clothesknit. Great idea!
I'm in! My color choice is #618 orchid.
http://knitoftime.blogspot.com/2007/05/six-of-fifty-two.html
This is the link to my post. I found out about your contest from ewegottaknit.blogspot.com, and I have her linked and credited in my post.
Love the circus peanut :)
Amanda (clothesknit) sent me this way!
I found you through Calling on Kahlo. I'm in!! I have gotten off track lately this will help me get on my summer knitting :)
I would choose drift for my color. How cool to have a pattern picked up by Blue Sky!!
I only have 2 knitting Summer goals but they're biggies for me so if they count, I'm in.
If by some bizarre circumstance I should win, I'd love to get the yarn in Orchid (if not available then Lemongrass would be my second choice).
I heard about this wonderful contest from Jennifer over at http://craftylilly.typepad.com/yarnandbeads/
Terrific (and popular) contest. I know I saw this at Knitting in Pink (http://knittinginpink.blogspirit.com/), Craftlily (http://craftylilly.typepad.com/yarnandbeads/) and Serendipitous Opportunknitty (http://heideho.wordpress.com/), and possibly a few others that I have forgo