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December 20, 2007 - Posted by Grace SchneblyHoliday GiveawayIt has been a crazy few days. One Tuesday Si and I flew out to visit Alice and her family in Vegas. We’re spending Christmas here, and the rest of our family will be joining us shortly. When I was packing I had to triple check to make sure that I had all of my knit gifts, and at the moment it doesn’t look like I forgot anything! Yay! It has been so fun to visit with my sister since I haven’t seen her for six months.
1 skein Cascade 220 in #8505 (white)  All you will need to provide yourself is the dye pot, tin foil or steamer, plastic wrap, vinegar, and a few other household items. Since this package will be pretty large, we’ve limited this portion of our contest to people who live in the continental United States, but don’t think that we have forgotten about the rest of you. We will have a separate drawing for copies of our original patterns, the Hawkeye and Kiddie Cadet hats, for those of you living in either Alaska, Hawaii, or abroad. To enter just tell us what you’re wishing for most this holiday season. If you live outside of the continental United States, please add that to your comment we can make sure you get entered into the correct drawing. The contest will run until December 27, noon PST, where we will use a random number generator to pick the winners. Also make sure to enter your email address when entering. It won't be shown but we will need it to contact you if you win. :) |
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I am wishing for less money troubles, and for gas prices to stop rising. My husband has to commute an hour back-and-forth to/from work.
I am wishing this holiday season to be healthy enough to get off the oxygen and start living again. I am ready to get my life back.
I'm wishing that a friend will deliver a healthy baby in early February. She was just put on bed rest, and it has been hard for her. I'm starting to teach her to knit to keep herself busy.
I wanted more than anything else this year to have an altercation free Christmas... and for little man not to eat too much wrapping paper :D
my wish this holiday season is to try to slow down and enjoy life more .... and to knit more! ;)
I think the thing I wanted most this Christmas was a calm, laid-back holiday. Although I didn't get exactly that, I can tolerate this year's level of craziness. :)
You know, the Chevron Scarf is *still* in my Ravelry queue. I think it was the first thing I put there!
I wish for the world a big dose of tolerance and much less divisiveness.
For me? I'd like to get rid of this everlasting virus. I'm glad I have a home but I'd also like a roof that didn't leak!
What a magnificent contest. Here's a good wish for you too. Use it however you like.
No way I'll win, lol, but I'd love a chance to dye up some fibber as I never have. Anyway, what I'm wishing for most- strength.
Merry Christmas!
What a fun and generous prize package! My Christmas wish would be to reconcile with my oldest son. And I think I'll just leave it there.
I want the same thing for Christmas that I have wanted for the last few year which is a ring.. "the ring".. I've been in the same relationship for 10 years and it's time, but I don't think I will get it this year either..the next thing I would like is for all kids to be with me for Christmas..and since we are all short of cash this year.. I don't see that happening either.So I would like to forfeit my wish and give it to a child that wont be having a nice Christmas this year..Hear that Santa.. pick a child in need and grant them their Christmas wish..!!
Thanks for the contest!
My biggest wish during this holiday season is to be open to new opportunities in the new year as I've suffered the loss of some of my dreams in the past two months and to have good health!
Happy Holidays!
I'd really love for my family to just be happy and together... and for me to be a little more 'okay.'
this Christmas, the *thing* i want most is a set of hand cards. my husbands cousins have a few sheep, and they've promised to let me have some of the wool. i need to learn how to process it so i can spin it up!
but my biggest Christmas wish is for a child this coming year... we've just started trying to conceive.
I am wishing for good health. My parents and I have had a few health issues this year and I am hoping that it's all good news after the new year.
Thanks for the contest! I'm feeling pretty content myself, but my wish is for all the other commenters to have true peace and health for themselves and their loved ones!
I'm wishing for good health for everyone this coming year. Between my mom's problems, my own issues, and now my 2yr old son being diagnosed with asthma, '07 has been a roller coaster.
What a generous giveaway!
Really, I am wishing for health and well being of my family back home whom I don't get to see often.
Happy Holidays!
I already got what I was most wishing for- my baby (due 5/5/08) to be a girl! Now I can stop threatening my husband that I'll teach him how to knit...
I suppose my not-yet-fulfilled wish would be for snow on Christmas Day (hate to drive in it but it's so pretty!)
Happy Holidays to all!
I am wishing for health and happiness for my family and pets and peace for all.
I'm wishing for peace and for people to stop hating each other because of religion, skin color, ethnic group, and any other idiotic reason to hate. Life is short. It's our obligation to make it count.
I'm wishing for watercolour painting gear, specifically a travel set for painting on the go when we are on holiday.
Wishing you all the best.
All I want for Christmas is for Social Security to accept my disability and to start paying me. But, since that doesn't look like it is happening in this lifetime, a job(s) so that I can contribute to our bills. A stay at home job knitting &/or spinning would be perfect.
And a most joyous Christmas season to all. May you be surrounded by your loved ones and have all the good health and good cheer that you can stand!! Merry CHRISTmas to one & all!!
I do not keep any holidays during this time of the year but when my holidays happen I want a Majacraft Rose.
I'm wishing to get all my gifts finished up (0/5 so far)!
Also wishing for better health in the new year.
What a lovely contest! My holiday wish is for my mother's health to improve. She's had a hard couple years.
I'm wishing most for snow. It's been so warm in Baltimore, and I JUST got off school for break, and I barely have time before Christmas shows up. I want snow so it feels like holidays for my two weeks off. I deserve the break. And the sledding. =D
Couldn't find the message I sent around 1pm today. So, am trying again:
My wish is for everybody whom I know (that includes you as from this minute on)to stay healthy always!
What an awesome contest! My Christmas wish is to get all of my gift knitting done on time! I'd wish for a white Christmas too, but since we're going to be visiting my parents in Southern California, I'll settle for sunshine. ;)
Hmmm...aside from world peace and to end world hunger? Enough knitting yarn for everyone to always have their most desired stash?? I think a delightful, enjoyable white family xmas! (we have not had snow fro xmas since i was little, never that my daughter has been born.)
i'm wishing for a safe trip to see the family for christmas and for lots of yarn!
happy holidays!!
~z
I wish for contentment.
What I want most for Christmas? Well, I really wish I could see my daughter that I haven't seen since she was 6.5 years old but since that's a gift even old Santa couldn't serve up I'll be more practical and wish for the work phone to not ring once from 4 pm on Monday night until 9:30 am on Wednesday morning.
What a neat kit!
I am wishing for most this holiday, beside the safety and health of everyone near and dear to me, is that the nurses scheduled to work on Christmas day actually show up. I have to work my normal 7a to 3p shift but I am also on call from 3A to 3A on Christmas, I just want to spend some time with my girls.
Happy Holidays!
Wow, what a generous and fun contest ladies! I am so excited to enter.
My holiday wish is to have safe travels while we visit family. I get so nervous traveling on major holidays, but our family is spread out all over the state so the travel is unavoidable. We will even be visiting out of state family this year.
Thanks for putting together such a fun contest, and it was really nice reading the other entries. Happy Holidays.
I am just thankful for having a roof over my head, a car to drive, a job to go to, and to be blessed with hobbies that I have learned that when times get tough, can be used as a back-up. Nothing else is that important. Wishing everyone a Happy Holiday!
My wish was answered already. My mother and I have reconciled after many years.
What a wonderful prize!
I really, really want a job... heck, I'd even settle for an interview and a "No thank you" letter. That and more knitting time to complete the presents I'm trying to finish before the big day. Cheers!
I wish for my blog to start getting more traffic in 2008. Maybe I need to offer a prize giveaway too! Well, I hope I win, because I'm getting a spinning wheel for Christmas and I need roving; plus, I just started learning how to dye yarn; so I could really enjoy all the different parts of this prize!
For myself, I'm wishing for improved health,happiness and love in the year ahead. For the world, I wish for no more wars, people to be kinder to each other and to our poor, abused planet! (yeah, I know, kumbaya and all that---but I worry about this stuff, ya know?)
And on to a more materialistic note...Wow, that's a great prize! I've never tried dyeing before, so that would be so fun!!! :)
Wishing you and everyone a lovely holiday season and best wishes for the year ahead.
I'm wishing for my family to be healthy! My sons, ages almost 5 and 8, are both harking and barking and just feeling miserable. If Santa happened to remember an ipod for listening to knitting podcasts, I wouldn't say no to that. ;)
Fantastic Contest!
For this holiday season, I am wishing most for everyone to have time to stop and smell the roses. Time flies too fast not to stop and enjoy yourself once in a while!
This is so nice!
This is my mom and stepfather's first married Xmas together, and the first in their new house. Plus...my grandmother is coming. I just want us all to have a really good time. Especially my grandmother, since the last few holidays have been, well...difficult. ;o)
Enjoy the season, everyone!!
Hmmmm - I just hope to get through the next few days unscathed! (Lots of family coming to visit!)
Thank you to both of you for a wonderful inspirational blog - Happy Holidays too!
I wish for a Knitpicks Options set, and for my boyfriend and I to have safe and fun trips to see our families for Christmas (not necessarily in that order:-).
my wish this year is for a puppy :)
Ohhh! I hope I win!
Wishing the most? That my sisters don't get jealous of my 2 year old daughter this year.... Yes I understand that she monopolizes my parents time but really...
to finish my holiday knit-gifts by New Year's, and that the weather cooperates for New Year's travel
What I'm wishing for this holiday season: that my fiance's flight home doesn't get delayed; that my grandfather feels well enough to come to Christmas dinner; and that I have some peaceful time to knit.
My husbands' family has had to deal with a few deaths in the family in the last month (!). Both his parents lost a parent. My wish is that my husband and his family will have a happy and non-drama filled start to the new year!
What I want most is for it to snow enough to go sledding during the holiday vacation.
shortsighted, perhaps, but right now i am just hoping to be finished with all of my gifts before xmas.
This is my mom's first Christmas with no family in the area, so I'm hoping that she manages a safe and happy holiday and that we'll actually be able to get together in January to celebrate.
I am wishing for a new job, but since I have 3 days til xmas I would be happy with a full weekday alone w/ my hubby :-)
For Christmas this year I am just wishing for some much needed rest and relaxation after a very stressful and ulcer-inducing fall semester at college. But yay for straight A's!
My monetary wish is for a decent set of sharpen-able knives and some pyrex baking dishes.
My wishful wish is that my best friend (we've known each for 23 years) stays safe and doesn't have too sucky a holiday while he's stationed in Afghanistan.
What a great, generous contest!
This year will be the first Chirstmas ever that my family will not be all together, sicne my 'little' brother has moved to the Yukon! So my wish this year is that he, his partner, and everyone else who can't be "home for the holidays" have a Christmas full of happiness and joy, fully knowing how much they are loved and missed.
p.s. That's a truly awesome prize pack! I'm terribly covetous -- are you sure you couldn't ship to Toronto? :)
My wish is for everybody I know (from this minute on, that includes you too!)to always stay healthy.
I wish for good health and a peaceful holiday this year and into the next year.
thanks for the contest!!
such fun.
Cool contest idea. I wish for a peaceful heart and not be so stressed over things I can't control. Easier said than done,eh?
My wish for this Christmas is a little more snow, a fun day and no tears.
My wish is that my son has a great holiday with his dad. This is the first Christmas in his 7 years that we won't be together.
I wish for all families who have someone who is terminally ill to have a great Christmas with that person.
My wish is for everyone to be happy.
Christmas is a special time to get family and friends together to make
some cherished memories. I wish all the best to everyone in the New Year.
Remember the spirt of chistmas and that giving is what it is all about.
I love your blog and really enjoy your ideas. Thanks so much for sharing. Have a good one.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I wish for peace in our world.
well, since I already got my Christmas wish (a spinning wheel!) I wish for a peaceful family gathering with lots of joy and laughter.
Plus extra time to spin!
what a great drawing!
Thanks for organising this, it's such fun!
I want to make a wish. I wish Mum finds a better job in the coming new year. We at home noticed she's been down and depressed, and getting worse 4.5 years into this current work. If it's not because of knitting and us, she probably would go insane. And if we can have another wish, we wish peace and love on earth.
We live in Sydney, Australia.
My greatest wish this season is for some time to relax and enjoy life. It seems that every year we are more rushed and miss people and events more and more often.
this year i have two wishes. one is for my husband to get *that* job. he's heard through the grapevine that the offer is pending but he still hasn't heard if he's gotten it. and for my brother to be happy. he's been going through some difficult times in the past couple of years and i really want him to have a good life.
i know, i'm a bit serious this year.
I'm hoping to just get some sugar cookies rolled & decorated by the time Santa hits the chimney. Yep, that's it.
My five-year-old had one thing on her letter to Santa--a kitty. As for me, my secret hope is we get two! I've missed having cats the last few years.
I'm hoping for a simple Christmas day - here in Scotland, with some snow, good food and a walk in the woods.
What I'm wishing for most? (Insert favorite yarn here) under every knitter's tree. Lots and lots of yarn making every knitter happy!
Happy holidays!
I'm wishing for a warm front to hit Oklahoma so I don't freeze when I travel from the subtropics (70-80 here).
I'm also wishing for a peaceful holiday with my (mostly dysfunctional) extended family.
And as always, I'm wishing for some GOOD yarn. No bad acrylic (some acrylic is fine) and lots of natural fibers.
I'm wishing for a peaceful holiday for family members, and successful surgery for my Dad Dec 27.
Hey! Happy Holidays!
When I first read this I thought... I'm wishing for itunes gift cards! Then I read everyone else's christmas wishes and gee I felt materialistic!
so... I guess I wish for world peace and an end to global warming! :)
I also wish you a lovely holiday and and happy knitting!
Excellent idea!
I'm hoping that we have a fun (and peaceful) holiday with my family. I started to write in detail what this would entail (who needs to behave, who needs to lighten up, etc.), but the more I wrote, the more I realized the improbability of it all happening, and I started to get depressed. Better to leave that for after a week with the family, I guess. Happy holidays to all!
How fun!
Of course, I'm wishing for world peace, but on a more personal scale, I'm wishing for a much healthier year in 2008.
Wow, that's a fantastic giveaway. What about us Canadians up here? :o)
And that's not an easy question! Eligible or not, what I wish for most is, that my son will be healthy enough to get through the second semester of this University year.
Hi! What a great giveaway!
This year for Christmas I am wishing for a joyful holiday with little stress and lots of love!
i am wishing for a nice, peaceful holiday where my kids are sweet as pie and get along with each other all day and are extremely thankful for each other and each gift they receive... far fetched i know, but a mama can dream!! :)
I wish for good health--for myself, my family, and my friends. Most people I know have been having a rough year health-wise. :(
Thanks for the contest.
Mmm, yummy contest.
I guess that I am just wishing that our Christmas is fun, being the first one that is just the three of us. Also, that all the Grandmas still have a good time even though we are visiting after Christmas. Oh, and I hope I get lots and lots of yarn.
What a sweet contest!
I am wishing to be with my family this holiday, and that everyone is happy and healthy.
Merry Christmas!
For the garage to be cleaned out so I can do some dyeing. No, really. I've been after the man to do it for months.
What I want most is for my two boys to at least pretend to like each other. Young boys are such a pain.
My Holiday wish is for more time; time with my family and friends, time to knit, time to read and time by myself.
Oh yeah, and World Peace...
Well I was wishing for a new spinning wheel but I got that last week ;)
Now, I'm really wishing for my brother to be safe, while he is in Iraq this Christmas. And snow...I would kill for some real snow!
Thanks for offering a great contest!
What do I wish for...? Relaxation!
This is cool! Just discovered your website maybe a week or two ago, and I love your hedgehogs! What I'd like for Christmas is for my husband to get a job closer to where we live instead of commuting over an hour one way each day. That, and a Nintendo DS lite with the Nintendogs...
I wish for peace, happiness, and knitwear for all!
what i am really hoping is that my family listens to me when i say i don't want a lot of gifts this year; i am trying to go with the less is more regarding stuff. which makes it somewhat perverse to be entering a contest whereby i could acquire more stuff, but really, truly, yarn? not stuff, more like air.
My wish is that my sis finds a way home for christmas this year!
I am most wishing for a little bit of relaxing with the husband and the wienies. What a great giveaway:)
Hearts to Vicki above. What I'm wishing for is that the two cats and I don't kill and/or vomit on each other too much over our 5 hours of driving home for the holidays....
Great contest!
What I am wishing for the most is some peace for my husband. He's in retail and is working extremely long hours. He only has one day off a week until Christmas. Our three year old daughter really understands Christmas this year, and is very much into all the lights and Santa and the Baby Jesus she sees in the creche. We have a 12 week old son, as well, who's just a paperweight right now. My husband feels guilty because he isn't really spending the season with us. He's upset that he's missing all the "excitement".
So what I want most is for him to feel peace and understand that though we miss him, we are grateful for what he is doing for us: providing.
I love your Chevron Scarf! What a great contest.
My wish for the holiday is to spend a few days relaxing. The holiday season is always so stressful, it would be nice to sit back and knit and read with my family.
Hope you have a great holiday!!
Thanks for a fun contest! I'm wishing that there is fresh snow on Christmas morning so I can cross country ski on the skis Santa brought a little early.
that is one huge prize package! very generous,too.
i'm wishing this holiday season that someone give me the strength to do the housework! in this house, its a lot for one person.
Ooh! Tons of color fun! Please pick me!
For Christmas, I'd really love a short one-night stop at any place on the way to or from our relatives in Ohio. Hubby always wants to drive straight through. I just want to take the time to see the sights. We've been making this trip (or some shorter variation of it) for 10 years, and we have yet to stop somewhere along the way. This is a pretty great country with so many things to see and do. It seems a shame to just drive on by.
This will be the first Christmas without my mom, so I wish that my family can have some happy times despite the sadness we will all feel.
Give everyone an extra hug this year.
What a great contest! Of course I have to enter!
What I'm most wishing for? A safe drive as the husband, myself, and the tribe of kids get in the minivan and head off to spend the weekend at my brother's house. We'll be back home for the actual holiday, and all I'm hoping for after that is a healthy, happy, and much better year than how last year started.
Great contest!
I'm just wishing an enjoyable holiday with my family in California.
I just met my long-lost sister, I hadn't even known about her until I was sixteen but always wondered if I'd see her. So one wish was already granted.
I think my previous comment didn't go through -- I'm not trying to stuff the box, honest! Thanks for this great contest!
My Christmas wish is to get to my 5 year cancer free date w/o a relapse.
Ooohhh! What a generous contest! Enter me, please.
What I am wishing for this Christmas is to make it to my 5 year cancer free date w/o a relapse -- I'm almost there!
Wow! What a great contest! I've never ever dyed yarn before, but it's something that I'd love to try! *fingers crossed*
What I'm wishing for most this year: no more holiday stress! This is my first holiday season in the "real working world" and it's been a harsh adjustment.
Wow - what a contest. Now I'm not in continental US but have friends in the US that are known as my yarn ponies and who could receive for me if that counts?!
What I'm wishing for is somewhat out of my reach but what I would love more than anything is for our house building project to be complete, as it was supposed to be. As it is, it will be done maybe in February. I had all these grand images of a huge Christmas tree in our new house. Not so.
What a awesome giveaway!
I am wishing for the safe arrival of my baby girl. And a Yarn Swift wouldn't hurt either. :-)
What a great prize!
I am wishing for good weather so that all the family members coming for Christmas make it here safely.
Such a wonderful box of treasures!
I'm wishing for enough Suss Love yarn to make Viveka in grey, (dammit, no magic links! LOL) A supersoft pullover to shnuggle up in, delightful!
Wow, what a contest! I am wishing for restful time spent with family this holiday season. And a hubby who volunteers to do the driving so I can knit :)
This is such a fun contest - thank you!
I'm wishing for the health and happiness of my family and pets. We just lost a beloved kitty two days ago, and I wish for his peace.
I'm wishing to have a magical holiday for my little girls - mostly enjoying the company of their grandpa (who we nearly lost to Leukemia this time last year)
Doh! I live in Canada, so I'm not eligible for the awesome dying package. :( The best Christmas present for me would be to have three happy days (dad, mom, then stepdad's family) with no bickering or grumpiness. Plus everyone loving the presents I give them. :)
Well, today's wish is sort of weird. I'm hoping my daughter has strep because we can cure that with antibiotics pretty quickly, whereas if it's a virus, it's likely to hang around through the holidays....
Other than that, I'm most excited because I know my mom got me a Tom Bihn knitting bag, and I can hardly wait to open it. :)
Hope you have a lovely holiday season.
hey, thanks for creating such a cool contest!
i think i am still a child at heart, cos honestly, i really really really want a nintendo wii for christmas! it is such an innovative and yet simple game system that my whole family can enjoy a night together without just watching tv for once!!
I'm wishing a Christmas with snow! Beside that I wish to give my big son a great Christmas. He is having a very hard time. Merry Christmas from Denmark.
What I want most is to be the best mom and wife I can be...and to quit letting the little things get the best of me.:)
That-is-all
I find myself in the enviable position of having a wonderfully blessed life, so my wish is for peace and comfort for the grieving and the lonely this season. I lost my father a few years ago, and know too well how hard the holidays can be.
I never enter contests mostly because I never win, but the chance to make a Christmas wish... I'll give it a shot.
I wish for peace.
aside from just wishing my family and friends are all safe and happy on theday, I'm wishing for a healthy fetus! my sonogram is tomorrow and it's like an early Christmas gift.
What a wonderful contest!!
For Christmas this year I'm wishing to have a stress free holiday season and new year. Well maybe a relatively stress free holiday season is a more realistic goal. :)
This is an awesome contest!
What I'm wishing for most: To not go into labor while my husband is at a conference 6 hours away.
Hi! What a FUN drawing! Thanks for offering it up!
What I'm wishing for the most this holiday season is that my family makes a big effort to slow down and enjoy each other's company and the reason for the season.
Happy Holidays!
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