The random number generator chose number 6, Karen from Mostly Self Taught Knitter, as our first winner of a skein of Charlie's Yarn. Congratulations, and thank you again for your donation to Get Your Guts in Gear!!
Our current total as of this Tuesday is $205. Chris has sent out letters to family, co-workers, and non-blog friends, but I wanted to point out that they are not eligible for our prize drawing -- only our knitting blog friends. Our next drawing for a skein of the Charlie's yarn will be the last weekend in April. Our final drawing of two skeins of the yarn, plus a gift certificate for $21 to the winner's choice of yarn shops, for three lucky winners will be on Memorial Day weekend. If you would like to participate, please click on the GYGIG button in the left column for more details or to make a donation.
"Where is Yvonne's address on this thing? Must ask her how come she didn't make any Timmy yarn?!"
If you would like to purchase some Charlie's yarn, please visit Yvonne at Lavender Sheep. She is donating 50% of the purchase of the yarn to GYGIG as well. I bought two skeins, and am planning a Cat's Paw scarf from some patterns I found on Ravelry. There are two different patterns here and here; I'm trying to decide which one to use, and then I can get right to it.
Sock knitters might be interested in the cat's paw socks, (designed in memory of another kitty) or the cat face socks, also free on Ravelry. I believe the gauge needs to be adjusted on one or two of these patterns as they call for a heavier weight, but a switch in needle size should make them just fine for the Charlie's Yarn.
So what are your plans for the weekend? Chris has another race tomorrow morning, and then I hope to get a little shopping and a lot of knitting done this weekend. The Noni bag is almost completed and ready for felting. It will be so nice to finally have that off the needles. And then there are the Anne Perry novels that have me in their grip. I'm not going to get much sleep until Thomas Pitt takes Sir Charles Voisey down for good. Two books down, two to go. I'm off to Seven Dials now...
Congratulations to Karen! I also wanted to point out this pattern for cat's paw lace socks:
http://wendyknits.net/archives/1027
Posted by: Yvonne | March 29, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Congrats to your first winner!
I like the Kid Merino Pattern the best...have a good week-end knitting and playing...
Posted by: Sara | March 29, 2008 at 03:00 PM
Congrats to Karen!! Sounds like you're having a very pleasant weekend. :)
Posted by: Chris | March 29, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Congrats to Karen! It sounds like you have a nice weekend planned. Today is my day to relax. Yesterday was filled with shopping and baby showers.
Posted by: Sydney | March 30, 2008 at 05:55 PM
Way to go, Karen! Thanks for the links to the scarves - now I know what to do with the pretty sock yarn in my stash. Don't you just love getting lost in a book? I started "The Other Boyelyn Girl" during Earth Hour on Saturday and ended up sitting there reading by candle light for 3 hours.
Posted by: Nancy | March 31, 2008 at 12:09 PM
I couldn't be more thrilled!!! Eeee! I posted about it on my blog too, so hopefully some more generous knitters will come by and donate.
Posted by: Karen | March 31, 2008 at 04:33 PM
Lucky Karen! Thanks for the reminder to donate. Those would be cute kitty patterns to knit from Charlie's yarn.
Posted by: Kristen | March 31, 2008 at 06:55 PM
Wow, cycling already... I can't wait to get my bike out and start pedaling...
Posted by: Brigitte | April 02, 2008 at 08:15 AM
Congrats to Karen. Hope the race went well this weekend. Can't wait to see the finished Noni bag :)
Posted by: lori | April 03, 2008 at 06:48 AM