Ianthine & Space Cadet Creations (giveaway)
I am, generally, fairly immune to the charms of what you might call girly things. I don’t do pink and purple. I’m not all that susceptible to lace. I’m far more likely to wear jeans than a skirt. But every now and then, when I’m not expecting it, something undeniably girly will catch my eye and render me helpless to resist. That happened here. It’s purple lace, and yet I’m smitten. Even if I am more likely to be wearing it with jeans and a tee than over a sundress!
I’m sure quite a bit of this unexpected susceptibility is due to the yarn. Space Cadet Creations does marvelous work, and I seem to have a long history of finding their purples irresistible. This one is no exception. And the yarn (8 tiny plies of merino, twisted tightly together to make a yarn sturdy enough for socks but fluid enough to have beautiful drape when worked at a looser gauge) is more or less impossible to say no to.
And Space Cadet is making it very easy indeed for one of you to say yes! They’re going to send one of you a skein of the Oriana in your choice of color. I used the Plume, but you can pick your favorite. Just leave a comment here telling me which color you’d like for a chance to win.
Comments left between now and the end of the day (eastern time) Thursday, November 27th, 2014 will be entered to win. I’ll pick a winner, contact them to get their addresses, and arrange to get the yarn to them. When you leave a comment, be sure to use a real email address so I can contact you if you’ve won (I won’t do anything with those email addresses besides notify the winner). If I do get in touch with you, I need to hear back from you within 72 hours or I will pick a new winner and contact them.
Ke Aloha is my favorite colorway. I love the purples. Thanks for such a lovely giveaway.
Ohhh, an 8ply fingering weight – sounds fantastic. My fav colour would be Oxblood.
It’s hard to choose. All the colors are pretty. I think the Honey would be my choice. .
Definitely Feather for me.
Dark Moana really really wants to come live with me.
I adore Crush!
So completely torn between Dark Skies and Oxblood, but I think that Ianthine would look fabulous in Oxblood, so that’s my choice xx
Tickled! Or ke aloha…no, Tickled!
My favorite is Cove!
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Oooh that Cove is stunning!!
Wow, another way we are alike, Hunter. I too am not into girly things-I DON’T do pink and rarely do other girly colors but I love the Gently colorway of this beautiful yarn. Again, this is a yarn that I never have seen before. Thanks for introducing it to me!
Although I am ALWAYS drawn to grays first the Feather color is so beautiful!
Drizzle or dark skies. Clearly my choices are influenced by recent weather!
Crush or Dark skies, wonderful!
I love purples but this time Honey is calling to me
Such beautiful colors but Moana is my favourite.
There are a lot of pretty colours, but I think Dark skies is my favourite. Or possibly Cove, but I already have a selection of green yarns and have been wanting some beautiful grays.
I am loving the honey, though dark skies is also gorgeous
This is one of my favorite patterns in the book so far! And I love Drizzle. So much depth there”
So pretty! It’s a tough choice, but Ke Aloha is calling to me this morning.
Love them, i think dark moana would be wonderful for this curl
I’m having a vision of this shawl worked in “dark skies”. Love the look of the pattern!
Honey is really calling my name.
I’d choose Oxblood, though I really like Dark Skies too. Actually, they’d look great together. Hmm….
What a shower of giveaways, fantastic! I like the Gentle very much.