Giveaway!
Well, with us being SO EXCITED by the new stock we’ve been receiving AND with us making lots of headway on our very own shop we decided to do a little mutually-beneficial giveaway. Here is how it works:
1. Leave a comment with the answer to the question below – this gets you one entry
2. Be a fan on our facebook page – this gets you another entry (but mention it in the comments!)
3. Follow us on Twitter and retweet the competition – this gets you yet another entry (again, mention it in the comments!)
In exchange for your hard work, the winner will be able to choose their own prize. How cool is that?! The winner of this competition can choose either:
a) A voucher to a 3-hour long class of your choice, valid for one year
b) A MillaMia August kit
c) A MillaMia Andrea kit
d) Yarn to the value of £25
e) Any two sewing patterns of your choice
The question we’d like you to answer is: What has been your most memorable crafting experience?
This competition will close on Saturday July 31st 2010 at 10pm, the winner’s details will be posted here once the winner has has been notified.
This competition is now closed. Thank you for your entries.
Ooh, that’s easy – for me it was knitting A WHOLE JUMPER! Okay it was Debbie Bliss’ idiotproof one from Easy Knits, but I made it. Little no4 wore it all last winter and because it seems to be rather, erm, floppy, it’s the gift that keeps on giving. He’ll be wearing it again this year, while he’s still small enough not to be mortified by his mother’s crap knitting!
PS – have liked you on FB!
My most memorable crafting experience was building a bluebird house with my kids. It wasn’t difficult to make, but it was fun. And bluebirds actually moved in, and we got to observe the babies fledge from the nest. Wonderful!
Frogging a pair of socks, on the train, assisted by my daily travelling companions, so that I could knit them one repeat shorter one one size needle smaller (guaranteeing two socks out of 100g rather than 1.75 socks), then re-knitting the socks again in a week in order to enter them into a country show.
I didn’t win, but I think I got extreme knitting under my belt!
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What I like best about crafting is being able to see my work in action – so I get a bit of a buzz every time I walk into my daughter’s room and see the pictures I’ve stitched for her, when she wears something I’ve made or when I see my amigurumis on display in friends’ homes.
But the most memorable was probably last October when I took 200 crocheted cupcakes and ten big sunshine toys down to our baby signing teacher conference in London – all carried on the train from Manchester – and handed them all out to be used in classes across the country. It took *months* to make them all and I only just finished in time; even more have gone out by post since and I’m never short of requests. I use them in my own classes, of course, and I love the thought that hundreds of babies across the UK are playing with things I’ve made!
Got to be the first quilt I finished. Okay, so the piecing was wonky and the points didn’t all line up, but the feeling of pride was immense! I still get a huge kick tucking my kids in under it for cosy time on the sofa