The Winner Is . . .

After much deliberation, and clicking back and forth among the links, I have chosen a winner in our Warming Up Swatchy Contest. Each of the entries was terrific, and made me smile. But my choice for who warmed up Swatchy the best is . . . . .

mrsfife for her Swatchy in the Tropics photo.



Congratulations! Email us your address so we can send out your prizes!

Contest Entries

I have shamelessly stolen all of the images so that you can see all of the entries here on one page. In the order that they were received, here they are:

Dandy's entry:


Magnusmog's entry:


Mrsfife's entry:


and Penny's entries:


Let's give all the entries a big round of applause! I know that looking at these photos sure warmed me up. :) Thank you all for entering!

*drumroll* ...and next up, Knittah will post the winner!

Contest Reminder Correction

Whoops... I forgot that there's a leap day in February this year. (All of my calendars are still packed.) So you still have one more day.

Current entries:

• Dandy
• magnusmog
• mrsfife
• Penny, with Swatchy in Hawaii and Florida

Contest Reminder

You have one day left to enter the Warming Up Swatchy Contest...

Prizes!

Noricum came up with a great idea the "Warming Up Swatchy Contest." Just photoshop Swatchy (the original Swatchy only) into a warm weather photo and send her the link. Noricum is contributing the hilarious prize of a vintage book on fur. And I am happy to add TWO skeins of sock yarn:



Specifically, the prizes are one skein of Austermann Step with Aloe and Jojoba (420m, 75% superwash wool, 25% nylon) and one skein of Plymouth Sockotta (414 yds, 45% cotton, 40% superwash wool, 15% nylon). Both of these yarns are machine washable, too!

So get those links in! You have until the end of February.

Warming Up Swatchy Contest

Brrr! It is *freezing* here. Literally. Actually, if it were only freezing, it wouldn't be a problem. However, when the windchill brings the temperature down to below -40 (F or C, it's all the same at -40), all we want to do here is snuggle in a warm blanket, in front of a crackling fire, with a mug of hot chocolate. However, Noricum has to work, and she drags me along with her. *shudder*

So, we decided to have a contest. I, Swatchy, want to be somewhere sunny and warm. (The warmer the better!) Since I'm stuck here with Noricum, I've decided to do some virtual travelling, and that's where this contest comes in. Please send me somewhere warm! Photoshop me into one of your vacation photos (or a photo that you have permission to use), and we'll send one winner a fantastic prize we picked up at the Manitoba Crafts Museum.

We're going to ask Knittah to be the judge and pick her favourite photograph (this blog is here for her, after all), unless, of course, she'd like to enter herself. ;) (Or if picking a winner is too much for her limited energy. If she doesn't want to do it for whatever reason, we'll decide on a different judge.)

To enter, leave a comment with a link to your photo, or e-mail it to Noricum. She'll make a post with all the entries after the deadline so that Knittah (or whoever) can pick the winner.

So, what is this fantastic prize, you ask? It's a hilarious used book from 1935 that we got for $1:

It contains valuable information, such as how to clean and repair furs, and gems such as a pattern for this stylin' fur tie:

I bet you didn't know that both skunk and opossum are very hard wearing furs? Or that antelope "is one of the most attractive furs for sports wear. The flat set of the fur is so distinctive and slimming."

After hearing what can be found in this book, you may want to keep your eyes open for some of their other titles:


Deadline: please submit your entries before the end of February. (Noricum decided that we'd give you the rest of February, since this is her birth month.)

Cheers,
Swatchy

PS: If someone would like to add to the prizes, feel free!