EDITED: Giveaway now closed! Congratulations Heather Reeve who’s name was selected at random as the winner!
I can’t believe this year marks 7 years of blogging like how did that happen? I wanted to do a bit of a giveaway to celebrate my blogiversary…. it was in January … so it’s a wee bit late, but I still wanted to do a little giveaway to say a big thank you to everyone that has supported me here and on social media.
Then I’ve got two more copies of the magazine, one to giveaway on my Facebook page and one on my Instagram. And as well as all the great patterns that are in the magazine this issue has two extra supplements of patterns, so there’s loads of fun things to choose from to make!
Here’s how you can enter:
To enter for the big blog prize, leave a comment at the end of this post telling me what’s your favourite things to crochet in Spring – to gain an extra entry maybe you might like to sign up to my newsletter.
Then hop over to my Facebook page and my Instagram for the instructions on how you can win the prize there – really easy ways to enter!
The contest is open from RIGHT NOW until Thursday 20 May 2020. The winner will be selected using a random number generator and I will need to be supplied with a full postal name and address to send out the prize. If efforts to contact the winner remain unsuccessful after a week, an alternative winner will be randomly selected.
This giveaway is open WORLDWIDE!
Thank you all my blog readers and social followers for your wonderful support and encouragement!
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
EDITED: GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED, congratulations to Leonie! You are the winner!
Five years ago (er…well the day before yesterday) I hit PUBLISH and my life changed! I’ve now been blogging for FIVE whole years! And because of my blog I’ve had some amazing opportunities, got to know some fabulous people and worked with some amazing companies – for which I am so very grateful!
WANT TO SEE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN? CHECK OUT MY FIRST POST!
Each blogiversary is a huge milestone and my 5th birthday is no exception. What started as a complete experiment is a large part of how I evolved into a working crochet designer, but I blog because I enjoy writing, I love to share my passion for all things crochet, and I love to hopefully inspire you.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do – Rumi
The past five years have been full of highlights and new experiences for me. Here’s just a few (of many!):
And I’m so appreciative to all the awards my little blog has received over the years!
You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. ― Octavia E. Butler
I was looking at some stats about blogs in general and was really surprised to learn that almost over 80% of blogs do not make it past the first three months – so I’m going to take a little moment to say go me! I’m still here – as are so many of you!
Just in case I don’t say it enough I want to say a big THANK YOU to you all that read my ramblings! I really appreciate the time you each take to visit my blog and especially when you leave me comments and feedback. I’d also like to thank you to those of you that have shared my blog your friends and family too.
LET’S CELEBRATE MY 5TH BLOGIVERSARY WITH A GIVEAWAY!
I’ve actually got double cause to celebrate at the moment because as well as blogging for five years my Facebook page recently hit the mahoosive milestone of 15 thousand followers! Just amazing! So I’m going to do a giveaway here on the blog, a different one on Facebook and another little one on Instagram because I like hanging out there! So that’s THREE different prizes up for grabs starting with this one!
So what do I have on offer as prize here on the blog for my blogiversary? Well one winner will receive the following:
1 x 100g / 225m skein of ‘Firey Sands’ 100% Suprima Hand-dyed Cotton by The Mermaid Purse Yarns (purchased by me)
Here’s how you can enter:
To enter, leave a comment at the end of this post telling me which 5 patterns you’d pick as part of the prize – to gain an extra entry maybe you might like to sign up to my newsletter.
The contest is open from RIGHT NOW until 8pm (GMT) on Wednesday 20th February 2019. The winner will be selected using a random number generator and I will need to be supplied with a full postal name and address to send out the prize. If efforts to contact the winner remain unsuccessful after a week, an alternative winner will be randomly selected.
This giveaway is open WORLDWIDE!
Thank you my loyal friends and followers for your everlasting support and encouragement! Without you, I would serve no purpose!
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
EDITED: GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED, congratulations to Heidi Bradshaw, Sharon Bowles, Candida Carvalho, Cristiana Alexandra Ferreiro do Vale, Jackie Walter and Michelle Smith!
I’ve got FIVE pairs of tickets, most generously donated by the shows organisers, for all you lovely readers – plus they’ve also set up a nice discount on ticket prices for anyone that doesn’t win (more about that in a moment).
If you love a good craft show, which of course I do, and you aren’t familiar with the Knitting and Stitching Show then you are really missing something. These shows are the UK’s biggest textile art, craft and design events and the Spring show will open its doors to thousands of crafters for FIVE whole days at London Olympia on Thursday 28 February until Sunday 1 March 2019.
You may remember I went to one of the shows back in 2017 with my lovely mum and we had a blast (you can read about that visit here). So we are going back down to the show together again this year for more crafty fun!
Any hoo, if you want to go straight to the details on how to win tickets scroll to the bottom of this page, if you’ve got a few more minutes I just want to tell you about another couple of things that’s happening at this years Spring show…
I for one am extremely excited to see the amazing work by Italian textile artist and designer Luisa De Santi who is bringing her extraordinary knit, crochet and embroidery work to the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show. Her exhibition called Magical Crochet Spells sounds like something not to be missed out on! I’ve seen some of the photos of her work and it’s just so intriguing!
Lucia creates complex and colourful 3-D modular structures that are amazing and mind-boggling, weird and wonderful all at the same time and I can’t wait to see them in the flesh!
I’m also looking forward to seeing The Fashion and Textile Museum who are hosting a 50 Years of Fabulous. They are doing a showcase with a collection of garments from its forthcoming exhibition celebrating iconic British designer Zandra Rhodes’ 50th anniversary. Although I don’t sew I do admire those that can (and I LOVE The Great British Sewing Bee) so I bet that’s going to be a whole lot of fabulous fun to see!
Ooo the more I’m writing about it, the more excited I’m getting! As well as all these exhibits there’s going to be over 150 exhibitors selling specialist craft supplies (including yummy yarn that needs to come home with me), and there’s going to be hundreds of workshops and demonstrations too. I’m still looking at the full workshop list deciding what to do as there are so many I just want to do!
Spend a day re-stocking your yarn stash, learning to knit, mastering the art of tailoring and just so much more. There has never been a better excuse to go to a show – it’s been designed for us to enjoy to the max!
Right enough enthusing from me, I think you get that I’m quite excited about going, let’s get on to how YOU can win tickets to the show…
Giveaway
I’ve got FIVE pairs of tickets to giveaway and the tickets are for redeemable any day except Saturday 2nd March. These tickets are only for the Spring Knitting and Stitching show at the Olympia London which runs from 28th February until 3rd March 2018.
All you need to do to enter the giveaway is to leave a comment on the bottom of this blog post about why you’d like to go to the show. The competition closes on Thursday January 31st 2019 at 7pm (GMT) with the winners being announced later that evening here on the blog. Good Luck Everyone!
But if you want your ticket’s RIGHT NOW I’ve also got a special discount for you! Just quote KCACO19 and get £2 off any advance adult ticket or £1 off any advance concessionary ticket. This means that tickets will be £12 instead of £14/£13 (please not there is a £1.75 fulfilment fee per transaction).
This discount is for advanced bookings only and can be redeemed before 23:59pm on Wednesday 27th February. Tickets can be booked online https://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/spring/ or by calling 0844 581 1319 and quoting the discount code.
I’d like to say a big thank you again to the shows organisers for offering this special deal to my lovely KCACO.UK readers and maybe we will catch up with some of you at the show?
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
So regular readers of my blog know that, as well as doing crochet design work, this year I set up the company for creative folk called Dear Ewe. Well I felt that I just wanted to share our first product review by the lovely Canadian crochet designer and blogger Pam (aka Sincerely Pam).
We know that people like to hear about products from actual people, so we are very excited to have received such a lovely review from Pam. As a new business it obviously means the world to us that people like our products!
You can read Pam’s full product review posthere– and excitingly you could enter her prize draw to win your very ownTriangle Chart mug. Entries for the giveaway are direct through Pam’s blog – winner will be selected on October 24, 2018.
We were also delighted to be part of her Makers Maven series with an interview where we shared a bit more about us and how Dear Ewe got started.
You can read the full interviewhereand learn how gin was an integral part of the beginning of Dear Ewe and how Becky and I work together as a team as well as being friends.
PLUSmake sure you check out the blog post about the‘Sheep on a Shelf’ Crochet Competitionwhichwill run from December 1st-12th 2018 and is going to be so much fun!
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
And so that’s that! My four weeks of giveaways is now over – I hope you’ve enjoyed it! All that’s left for me to do is announce who has won the Big Blue Yarn giveaway.
And the winner is…
Yay congratulations Sharon! I’ve sent you an email for your address details so I can get your prize out to you.
And I have to finish off this celebration of four years of blogging by saying again that I want to thank you for visiting my blog and enjoy reading your wonderful comments. I’m very grateful to each and everyone of you and I hope we can continue for many more years enjoying our crafts together!
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
So we need a winner for the lovelyWulla Yarn hooksdon’t we! And the winner is….Kate Rowell, congratulations! I’ve sent you an email for your address details so I can get your prize out to you.
Don’t forget there’s still the ‘big blue yarn’ giveaway open until 9 March
Up for grabs is:
10g x Paintbox mini (DK)
10g x Scheepjes Catona mini (4ply)
50g x Drops Cotton Light (DK)
50g x Lang Cotton (Chunky)
50g x Just Yarn Cotton (DK)
50g x Patons Baby Smiles (4ply)
50g x Scheepjes Catona (4ply)
50g x Patons Fab (DK)
50g x Phildar Pilou Plus (DK)
50g x Bergere de France Barisiemne (DK)
100g x James Brett Harmony (DK)
100g DY Choice (DK with Wool)
100g x Paintbox Simply Aran
100g x Stylecraft Special (DK)
100g x West Yorkshire Spinners Essential Aran
That’s a whopping 920g of yarn up for grabs which is a nice amount to feed any hungry stash! For your chance to win enter here.
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
So it’s the end of my celebratory giveaways and I wanted to end it with a fun prize from me. My feelings are that you can never feel ‘blue’ when there’s yarn around so I’ve hand-selected some of my favourite blue hues for one lucky winner to play with.
This giveaway isn’t sponsored by anyone so there is a real range of yarn, colours and weights. Up for grabs is:
10g x Paintbox mini (DK)
10g x Scheepjes Catona mini (4ply)
50g x Drops Cotton Light (DK)
50g x Lang Cotton (Chunky)
50g x Just Yarn Cotton (DK)
50g x Patons Baby Smiles (4ply)
50g x Scheepjes Catona (4ply)
50g x Patons Fab (DK)
50g x Phildar Pilou Plus (DK)
50g x Bergere de France Barisiemne (DK)
100g x James Brett Harmony (DK)
100g DY Choice (DK with Wool)
100g x Paintbox Simply Aran
100g x Stylecraft Special (DK)
100g x West Yorkshire Spinners Essential Aran
That’s a whopping 920g of yarn up for grabs which is a nice amount to feed any hungry stash. Plus I’m also adding into the parcel a cute little note book for you to jot down your new project ideas and a fun little basket to store your new work in progress in.
Here’s how you can enter:
Entering is oh-so easy. just leave me a comment at the end of this post telling me if you have a project you’d like to try with one of these yarns or perhaps there’s a yarn that you’ve always fancied playing with...Good luck!
To gain a sneaky extra entry, head on over to myKCACOUK Facebook page, leave a comment under the post about this contest and ‘like’ the page (if you haven’t already). And to gain another extra entry, why not pop over to@KCACOUKon Instagram, become a follower, and leave a comment under the post about this competition.
The contest is open from RIGHT NOW until midday (UK-time) on Wednesday 7th March 2018. The winner will be selected using a random name picker and I will need to be supplied with a full postal address for the prize. If efforts to contact the winner remain unsuccessful after a week, an alternative winner will be randomly selected.
Please note: Due to some international shipping restrictions this contest is only open to readers in the United Kingdom.
So we are approaching the end of the giveaway with only a couple of prizes left up for grabs, I’ll tell you about the next one momentarily but first I need to tell you who the winner is of the Medieval Colour rainbow yarn pack. And that is…as picked by the fun random wheel of fortune name picker….
Congratulations to you! I’ve sent you an email for your address details so I can get your prize out to you – and now onto the next prize (woo hoo!)
Week 4 is sponsored by Wulla Yarnswho have generously donated a set of their amazing neon jumbo hooks. You may remember that I reviewed the yarn and created the free Wulla Wreath pattern in collaboration with them last year.
One lucky reader will receive a 15cm, a 20cm and a 25cm of these fabulous loud and proud hooks – you are lucky to be getting this one as I want to keep them aalllll!
Here’s how you can enter:
To enter, leave a comment at the end of this post telling me what you’d like to make with these awesome jumbo hooks.
To gain a sneaky extra entry, head on over to myKCACOUK Facebook page, leave a comment under the post about this contest and ‘like’ the page (if you haven’t already). And to gain another extra entry, why not pop over to@KCACOUKon Instagram, become a follower, and leave a comment under the post about this competition.
The contest is open from RIGHT NOW until midday (UK-time) on Wednesday 28th February 2018. The winner will be selected using a random name picker and I will need to be supplied with a full postal address for the prize. If efforts to contact the winner remain unsuccessful after a week, an alternative winner will be randomly selected.
Please note that this giveaway is open worldwide.
I would like to thank Wulla Yarns again for their generosity in sponsoring my 4 year Blog Anniversary.
Don’t forget to pop back on Sunday for details of the final prize giveaway prize – this time from me.
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
It’s time another giveaway prize for our new week but first I have a winner ofweek 2’s prizeto announce don’t I for the Hook and a Book gift box! And I’m also late in picking the prize winner for the Happily Hook magazine subscription too – sorry about that, we’ve had illness in the house again and I completely missed picking it! So I’m going to announce both winners right now!
And the winner of the Happily Hooked magazine subscription, as picked by the funrandom wheel of fortune name picker,is Alison and the winner of the Hook and a Book is Shanaya!!
Congratulations to both of you I’ve sent you both an email so we can talk about getting your relevant prizes to you. And now onto the next prize (woo hoo!)
This fantastically unique prize contains a set of naturally dyed yarns in favourite colours of Medieval times:
yellow from weld (Reseda luteola)
red from madder (Rubia tinctoria)
blue from woad (Isatis tinctoria)
Here’s how you can enter:
To enter, leave a comment at the end of this post telling me what you’d like to make with these pretty rainbow yarns.
To gain a sneaky extra entry, head on over to my KCACOUK Facebook page, leave a comment under the post about this contest and ‘like’ the page (if you haven’t already). And to gain another extra entry, why not pop over to@KCACOUKon Instagram, become a follower, and leave a comment under the post about this competition.
The contest is open from RIGHT NOW until midday (UK-time) on Wednesday 21st February 2018. The winner will be selected using a random name picker and I will need to be supplied with a full email address for the prize. If efforts to contact the winner remain unsuccessful after a week, an alternative winner will be randomly selected.
Please note that this giveaway is open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
I would like to thank Medieval Coloursagain for their generosity in sponsoring my 4 year Blog Anniversary.
Don’t forget to pop back on Sunday for details of another prize giveaway – still two prizes after this one up for grabs!
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
Soooooooo it’s a new week which means it’s time for another giveaway prize? It’s all very exciting isn’t it! But first I have a winner ofweek 1’s (part 1) prizeto announce…mini drum roll please…and the winner is, as picked by the funrandom wheel of fortune name picker…
Congratulations Zeens and Roger!! I’ll be contacting you shortly for your address so I can post you out your prize. Sorry for folks that didn’t win this time but don’t forget that the week 1 (part 2) prize is still up for grabs on this posthere.
Now back to this week! Week 2 is sponsored by the crochet subscription box, Hook and a Book, who are offering one lucky winner one of their 2017 boxes (currently on sale in their Etsy shop). One winner may choose from either;
Doggy themed cup cosys (this is the box I reviewed here)
Apple coasters OR
Feather necklace
Here’s how you can enter:
To enter, leave a comment at the end of this post telling me which box you’d like to win.
To gain a sneaky extra entry, head on over to myKCACOUK Facebook page, leave a comment under the post about this contest and ‘like’ the page (if you haven’t already). And to gain another extra entry, why not pop over to@KCACOUKon Instagram, become a follower, and leave a comment under the post about this competition.
The contest is open from RIGHT NOW until midday (UK-time) on Wednesday 14 February 2018. The winner will be selected using a random number generator and I will need to be supplied with a full email address for the prize. If efforts to contact the winner remain unsuccessful after a week, an alternative winner will be randomly selected.
This giveaway is open WORLDWIDE.
I would like to thank Hook and a Book again for their generosity in sponsoring my 4 year Blog Anniversary.
Don’t forget to pop back on next Wednesday for another prize giveaway!
Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
