Third Time’s A Charm….Right?

Yet again, I am here to choose NEW WINNERS for our wonderful birthday celebration prizes.

Prize #1: Petite Purls Swag goes to…….. SARAH DAWSON! who left the comment:

6/23/2010  Just keep doing what you are doing! Though I am partial to toddler girl knits.

Prize #3:  Designer Package goes to……… FELICIA K! who left the comment:

6/23/2010  i would love to see more pattern for everything for babies and toddlers. i have 5 grand babies that i love making things for. also some more bags i never can get enough of those. you guys r awesome in the things you do keep it up!!!!!

Prize #4: Indie Package goes to……. ABRIL! who left the comment:

6/23/2010  I just recently found you and I’m already in love with you guys. I live in MN and woudl love to see more warm hats that stay on and look cute.

Congratulations Ladies! Please, PLEASE email us at infoATpetitepurlsDOTcom to get your wonderful prizes!

Let’s Try Again!

We’ve been patiently waiting to hear from our lucky winners, but it looks like we have three new winners to choose for our Birthday Giveaway!

Carey will be receiving the amazing Spud and Chloe package, but here are the NEW winners for the rest of our amazing prizes:

Prize #1: Petite Purls Swag goes to……KAREN!

Prize #3: Designer Package goes to…… SARA T!

Prize #4: Indie Package goes to……. JACQUELINE!

There you have it! Please contact us to find out how you receive your goodies at infoATpetitepurlsDOTcom

We will be getting this blog up and running again with some great posts! Stay tuned…..

We Have Winners!

We are finally choosing our four very lucky winners for our Celebration Giveaway! We used the RNG and the lucky readers are….

drumroll please…….

Prize #1: Petite Purls Swag winner is: Laura!

Prize #2: Spud and Chloe package winner is: Carey!

Prize #3: Our Designer package winner is: Stephani!

Prize #4: The Indie Package winner is: Laurie!

Congratulations to the 4 winners! Winners, please contact us at infoATpetitepurlsDOT for more information about how to get your prizes!

If we don’t hear from a winner or winners after one week (July 12), we will randomly draw another name for that prize.

Thanks for all of the great comments. We will be writing a post soon about some of the suggestions  you gave us.

Advertiser Spotlight: Spud & Chloe

We love Spud and Chloe. We love everything about them: the yarns, the patterns,the logo, the swag. Not to mention that the staff is made up of some of the nicest, most kind people on the planet. We had the opportunity to meet Linda (owner), Val and Merri while at TNNA (check out their CUTE booth!) and it was like we were visiting our best friends.

Spud and Chloe is a division of Blue Sky Alpacas. They offer the quality yarns that you expect from Blue Sky Alpacas, in mod, fun colors and three different yarn weights: Fine, Sweater and Outer. And get this: they are ALL machine washable. Machine Washable. Every mother’s dream!

Petite Purls feels a kinship with Spud and Chloe because we share a birthday. Both Petite and Spud came on the scene in June 2009. Spud and Chloe were welcomed to the fiber world at last year’s Summer TNNA, with Petite Purls just a couple days later.

From the beginning, Spud and Chloe has been a wonderfully generous sponsor of Petite Purls, not only as an advertiser, but also when it comes to yarn support. Many of our designers have had the opportunity to use their yarns, and they are supporting our entire Back to Basics collection. Without their support in all of these ways, Petite Purls would hardly have a leg to stand on, so we thank Spud and Chloe from the bottom of our hearts.

But enough about us! What’s new for Spud? They have recently added some new, fun colors to their yarn palette, as well as some incredibly adorable patterns. Oh, have we mentioned that one of our faves, Susan B. Anderson, is the curator of the Spud Says! blog and their top designer? What a lucky lady, huh?

To celebrate Spud and Chloe’s first birthday, they are hosting a fabulous giveaway! Not to be missed, for sure! Check out the blog and make sure you leave a comment to be entered into the drawing. And don’t forget about their wonderful package on our Birthday Giveaway! You have two chances to win great Spud and Chloe swag!

Congratulations to Spud and Chloe on year one! We look forward to seeing what great and adorable things you come up with in year two!

Handmade Beginnings Winner

We are happy to announce that Amanda is the lucky (random) winner of our copy of Handmade Beginnings by Anna Maria Horner! Congratulations Amanda! Please contact us at infoATpetitepurlsDOTcom with your contact info so we can get the book sent off to you.

We wish you many hours of sewing wonderful projects from the book!

A New Winner AND a New Giveaway!

We have chosen a new winner (via Random Number Generator) to receive Amanda Soule’s book set! Thank you to all that commented and follow us!

Drumroll please!

The winner is….. PATRICIA!!

Her comment, left on April 5th, 6:31am:

I am making a quilt with repurposed baby clothes, green, gorgeous and so sentimental!

Patricia, you have until TUESDAY APRIL 27th to contact us at infoATpetitepurlsDOTcom to redeem your winnings. I do hope we hear from you soon!

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The lovely people at Interweave Press have generously given us a copy of Ann Budd’s new book, Knitting Green to give away to one of our readers.

So here’s what you have to do (we like to make you work!):

We want you to spread the Petite Purls love! Tell a friend about our magazine, tweet about it, Facebook about it, better yet, write a blog post about us! We are coming up on our first anniversary with the magazine and are so happy with how many readers we have.  Our readership has at least tripled since we launched the magazine back in June 2009. But we want more!

Once you have shared your love for Petite Purls, leave a comment on this blog post telling us where we can find the love! You have until Monday May 3rd to leave a comment.

We Have Winners!!

Ahem! We are happy to announce our FOUR winners (via Random Number Generator) for our great giveaways!

By Megan Hall, March 20, 2010 @ 3:41 pm

Hi! Love this issue- I’m so ready for Spring.
I’d like to share my “green thing” with you. My son, who is 10 years old and an awesome knitter, uses yarn he finds at thrift stores and yard sales to make small blankets for the doggie beds at our local animal shelter. Rarely does the yarn ever cost more than 25 cents and he can make in entire blanket with just a skein or two.

Does it count if I already follow your blog? Hope so! Thanks!

Congratulations Meghan! You will be receiving Amanda Soule’s two books: The Creative Family and Handmade Home!

By Erika, March 22, 2010 @ 6:03 am

I just found you guys recently on Spud and Chloe, and I just joined you on Facebook, Ravelry, and signed up for the newsletter. I just can’t decide what I want to knit first! Thanks for the wonderful website!

By Jackie, March 31, 2010 @ 1:06 pm

I follow you on twitter, in the group on Ravelry and your blog  I hope I win!

Congratulations to Erika and Jackie! Each of you will receive three skeins of Blue Sky Alpacas Multi Cotton. Now you two just have to duke it out for who gets the bold colors and who gets the pastels (tell me your preference and I’ll try to make it happen)

By Nadine B, March 26, 2010 @ 8:13 am

Great Issue!

1. Name 2 of the 4 ingredients Vickie Howell uses to render the color in her guilt-free dye. Alum and Beets

2. In Betz White’s book “Sewing Green”, what additional section has she added to the book, that will be of help in the search for green crafting materials? She has added sections highlighting eco-friendly companies selling new items.

3.What is “Gecko” and what was the name inspiration? It is a crocheted baby blanket inspired by the Lizard Ridge Blanket. But it is smaller so it is a Gecko.

4. According to Stefanie Japel, the designer of the “Tshirt Yarn Bib”, what does the term ”Upcycle” mean? Turning an old item into something better.

Congratulations Nadine B!!!! You are the winner of the Yarn Julep Swag!!

Ok! So all winners must email us at infoATpetitepurlsDOTcom with their addresses to receive their lovely prizes.  If we don’t hear from a winner (or more), we will choose another winner later next week.

Thanks everyone for playing!

A Yarn Julep Giveaway!!

Yarn Julep is celebrating the Spring Issue of Petite Purls and still keeping it green…

We’re giving away a huge green inspired prize package for some lucky reader of the Spring 2010 issue. Included in the prize package is a complete set of Etimo crochet hooks and because we have just started carrying the steel sets, we will give the winner a choice of getting either the regular or steel set. Also included in the package is a handy Speed gauge tool manufactured by the Tulip company, those wonderful folks who make the Etimo hooks.

In keeping with the green theme we are adding a pre-owned, gently used Liz Claiborne bag to be used as a project bag. Yarn Julep is always on the lookout to repurpose handbags and totes into the ultimate crochet or knitting bag and this one just “screamed” project bag with its ample bottom gusset and organizer pockets. And lastly, the remaining unraveled and repurposed yarn from the Maggie Bean doll is included along with an assortment of Kool-aid packets so you can try your hand at dying with Kool-aid.

All you have to do is read the Spring Issue of Petite Purls, which you’ve probably already done. Then come back to the Petite Purls blog and answer the following four simple questions to be eligible for the drawing:

1. Name 2 of the 4 ingredients Vickie Howell uses to render the color in her guilt-free dye.

2. In Betz White’s book “Sewing Green”, what additional section has she added to the book, that will be of help in the search for green crafting materials?

3.What is “Gecko” and what was the name inspiration?

4. According to Stefanie Japel,  the designer of the “Tshirt Yarn Bib”, what does the term ”Upcycle” mean?

Fun Spring Giveaways!

ETA: These giveaways are now closed. All further comments left will be deleted.

We hope you all have been enjoying our newest issue. It was such a fun issue to put together and the amount of talent involved was truly amazing!

So we are back to tell you about not just one, but TWO great giveaways we have to offer you!

We are going to be giving away some of Blue Sky Alpacas great Multi Cotton that we reviewed this issue. There will be TWO winners! One winner will receive Punch, Marmalade and Slushie and the other winner will receive Limeade, Spearmint, Icing. In order to be in the running for this yarn, you have to do some work for us:

We currently have five places where you can read about what going on in the Petite Purls world:

Blog

Newsletter (read #3)

Twitter

Facebook

Ravelry

If you are not following us, well, you should be! Sign up for as many of these groups as you want/can, come back to the blog and leave a comment telling us where you follow us and you’ll be automatically entered! FYI, the more places you follow/join, the more chances you have to win!!

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The next giveaway is a great one too! (Would we give away anything that wasn’t great?)

The lovely and inspiring Amanda Soule from SouleMama has generously offered a set of her books, The Creative Family and Handmade Home to one of our lucky readers. I hope you all had a chance to read my interview with Amanda in the recent issue. Her blog is full of daily inspiration and her books do just the same. We really wanted Amanda to be involved in our Green Issue because she is very passionate about repurposing, recycling and does it very creatively. For this giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post about something you are doing in your life that is creative AND green. We’re all doing a little something aren’t we?

So, there you go! Great stuff to win! The deadline for BOTH giveaways is MONDAY APRIL 5th (11:59 pm MST). If you want to be in the running for both giveaways, please leave separate comments for each.

Good Luck!

um? anyone want some yarn?

It seems that we’re having a hard time giving away this beautiful sKNITches yarn! We’ve learned our lesson that every commenter must leave an email address for us to contact them!

Kristin Fitzgerald, you have until midnight tonight (Friday the 15th) to contact us at

infoATpetitepurlsDOTcom to receive your yarn! Otherwise, back to the drawing board, yet again!

A&B