Hobbii Yarn and Magazine Giveaway!

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.

I’m going to do a giveaway here on the blog, another one on Facebook and another on Instagram so there will be several places you can win a prize!

The prize ties in with one of the latest patterns, The Parisian Plait Wrap, I created from Issue 68 of Crochet Now magazine (read the blog post here).

What you can win:

So up for grabs here on the blog is a copy of Crochet Now magazine (Issue 68) AND a Hobbii’s Cotton Kings Twirl, in Peach Danubrite, so you’ll have everything you need (apart from a hook) to make your very own Parisian Plait wrap.

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

20Nov2019

New Pattern Release & Giveaway|Seasonal Dachshund Amigurumi

Posted in Amigurumi, Crochet, Holidays, Independent Design, Magazine, Pattern Release by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED: Congratulations to The Crafty Therapist whose name was drawn at random!

Remember my ‘Dachshund thru the Snow’ crochet pup that was in I Like Crochet magazine last year? Well I’ve finally got round to releasing the individual pattern today!

BUY DACHSHUND PATTERN ON RAVELRY HERE

I’m going to do a giveaway for some free copies of the pattern – do you want one?

In the comments below just tell me why you would like a copy or who you would like to make the little doggo for – I’ll then pick a winner next Tuesday on 26 November 2019.

If you are on Facebook and Instagram I’ve giving away copies there too for you AND a friend, go on over and enter for more chances of winning!

I think I said before that I happen to have a great deal of affection for this little amigurumi because once upon a time I had a real life daschund called Cabbage who was my best friend for 15 years.

Actually my (woman) best friend has claimed this ami, she fell in love with him when she saw him! The pattern makes a fun alternate gift for the holiday season or you could make him just because you love dachshunds like me!

Good luck to all those that enter the giveaways!

Until next time folks! Happy hooking and keep calm and crochet on my friends xx

2Feb2019

Five Years Blogiversary Giveaway!!

Posted in Competitions, Crochet, Giveaways, Sale / Special Offer by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

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!):

Having a design appear on the front cover of LGC Knitting and Crochet Magazine in 2017
Being part of the Stylecraft Blog Tour in 2016
Being the guest designer for The Crochet Sanctuary in 2018 (can’t wait to go back this year!)
Designing the mascot for Yarn Shop Day 2018
Being invited as part of the press in 2017 gang to The Knitting and Stitching shows (again really looking forward to going again at the end of this month!)
Starting a yearly Crochet-Along , having Scheepjes sponsor the 2018 CAL, and seeing all your projects grow and develop!
The opportunity to interview some fab fellow designers that I admire and who definitely inspire me! Like Dedri Uys, Lucy Ravenscar, Kerry Lord, Irene Strange and Eleonora Tully (definitely want to try and do some more of these this year)
Having the whole design supplement with Granny Square designs for Simply Crochet Magazine in 2018.

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:

5 x Keep Calm and Crochet On UK crochet patterns of your choice
1 x Dear Ewe Monochrome Maker Mug in the ‘Yarn’ design
1 x Dear Ewe Medium Project Bag ‘Make Something Amazing’ design
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

24Aug2018

Make it Today Magazine | Snails and Unicorns and another Dear Ewe Competition

Posted in Amigurumi, Crochet, Dear Ewe, For Child, Magazine, Pattern Release, Sale / Special Offer, Tah-Dah by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

Crochet Mag ‘n’ Makes, the special edition of Make It Today magazine, is on sale now and I’ve got two new fun designs inside AND (as we wanted to launch with a bang) there’s another feature and crochet related giveaway from Dear Ewe in this issue!

You can just see on the front cover a couple of my makes – peeking out in the top right hand corner there’s a snail and at the bottom left you might just be able to make out a Stripes the Unicorn!

I’ve always wanted to design a unicorn so was excited to give one a go for the magazine and he turned out to be really fun to make. And I always think of rainbows when I think of unicorns but I wanted to give this make a little twist, so instead of giving him a stripy rainbow mane (which you always see), I decided to give him a stripy body.

I had to hide him a little whilst I was making him as my 7 year old is unicorn mad and would have run off with him given the chance!

In this issue I also made a colorful shellection of snails! Just forget about annoying garden pests and make up some gorgeous gastrapods to brighten up your day instead.

I nicknamed them Shelly and Sheldon (of course!) and opted for a traditional swirly pattern on their shells. But you could experiment with designs to create something completely unique to you.

I adore how the magazines have styled them as well with the bulb box and the flowers!

The mags and makes issue comes with the eight yarns I used for the patterns plus;

3mm hook & 4.5mm crochet hooks
55 exclusive patterns
Plus a 66 page magazine

You may also spy on page 6 in their news section that Dear Ewe had a lovely little feature…Little Ewe felt quite famous!

Dear Ewe have teamed up with Make It Today magazine to offer a fab ultimate crochet bundle! Worth over £129 one winner will receive a crochet chart mug, crochet chart tote bag, crochet chart large project bag, 8 x creative greeting cards, 4 x photo prop card packs and two pattern downloads in either UK or US terminology.

Click here to enter the giveaway

Entries must be received by 6 September 2018.

Make It Today magazine is available in major supermarkets and newsagents across the UK. If you hook up either Stripes the Unicorn or the Snail Duo please share your photos with me on social media (facebook, twitter or instagram) – I love to see what you make!

Until next time folks! Happy hooking, keep calm and crochet on my friends xx

7Mar2018

Big Blue Yarn Giveaway Winner

Posted in Competitions, Giveaways by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

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

28Feb2018

We have a winner!

Posted in Competitions, Crochet, Giveaways, Yarn by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

CELEBRATING MY 4TH BLOG ANNIVERSARY

WITH 4 WEEKS OF GIVEAWAYS!

So we need a winner for the lovely Wulla Yarn hooks don’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

25Feb2018

Keep Calm and Crochet On U.K’s 4th Blog Anniversary Celebration | Final Prize

Posted in Competitions, Crochet, Giveaways, Yarn by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

CELEBRATING MY 4TH BLOG ANNIVERSARY

WITH 4 WEEKS OF GIVEAWAYS!

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 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 @KCACOUK on 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.

I would like to thank all of the people, LGC Knitting & Crochet Magazine, Happily Hooked Magazine, Hook and a Book, Medieval Colours and Wulla Yarns again for their generosity in sponsoring my 4 year Blog Anniversary giveaways.

Until next time; keep calm and crochet on my friends xx

21Feb2018

Keep Calm and Crochet On U.K’s 4th Blog Anniversary Celebration | Week 4

Posted in Competitions, Crochet, Giveaways by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

CELEBRATING MY 4TH BLOG ANNIVERSARY

WITH 4 WEEKS OF GIVEAWAYS!

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 Yarns who 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.

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

14Feb2018

Keep Calm and Crochet On U.K’s 4th Blog Anniversary Celebration | Week 3

Posted in Competitions, Crochet, Giveaways, Yarn by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

CELEBRATING MY 4TH BLOG ANNIVERSARY

WITH 4 WEEKS OF GIVEAWAYS!

It’s time another giveaway prize for our new week but first I have a winner of week 2’s prize to 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 fun random 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!)

Week 3 is sponsored by Medieval Colours who have generously donated a rainbow set of their yarns for one lucky reader.

You may remember that I reviewed the yarn and created the free crochet Renaissance bag pattern in collaboration with them last year.

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.

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 Colours again 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

7Feb2018

Keep Calm and Crochet On U.K’s 4th Blog Anniversary Celebration | Week 2

Posted in Competitions, Crochet, Giveaways by Keep Calm and Crochet On UK

CELEBRATING MY 4TH BLOG ANNIVERSARY

WITH 4 WEEKS OF GIVEAWAYS!

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 of week 1’s (part 1) prize to announce…mini drum roll please…and the winner is, as picked by the fun random 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 post here.

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.

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