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It’s giveaway time! Win a CHOCOLATE PIZZA with UK Crochet Patterns!

Hello!

Our LOVELY friends from Serenata Flowers want to give away a free Chocolate Marshmallow and Chocolate Bean Pizza! Doesn’t it look delicious?! It’s a gorgeous chocolate pizza topped with white chocolate flakes and coloured chocolate beans.

To enter, all you need to do is LIKE this post and leave a comment telling us what your favourite product available from Serenata Flowers’ website is! They offer BEAUTIFUL flowers, plus hampers and chocolates galore!

Take a look at their website here: SerenataFlowers.com

The winner will be announced on UK Crochet Patterns on 30th November at 6pm.

– Leeloo the Tall

Some competitions for you

Hey guys, there’s an awesome pattern competition on Petals to Picots. They’re giving away 2 patterns of your choice, just take a look at the link below for more details.

Also, just a bit of warning: we’ll be hosting a competition ourselves in a few days! Thanks to Serenata Flowers, you’ll be able to enter a draw to win a prize from their website! Details about what the prize will be and how to enter will follow in a few days!

Take a look at their website in the meantime: http://www.SerenataFlowers.com

– Leeloo the Tall

Competition time!

After my post yesterday and the very mixed responses, we’ve had a think and decided on the following:

 

1st prize – a side bar ad above the directory drop-down for the month of October.

2nd prize – a fabulous guest post.

3rd prize – a side bar ad above the directory drop-down from Sept 21st to 30th.

The only condition is that you mention winning in your own next blog post.

 

All you need to do is LIKE this post and the Big Fat Fluffy Ginger Adjudicator will pick winners on Friday 20th September.

321go!

Prize winner’s product review + star pattern

Our friend, A Creative Pixie, has kindly reviewed the Red Heart Miami yarn she won in a recent giveaway. Just look at what she made! LOVELOVELOVE!

Click here to visit her blog and to read the review!

She has even been generous enough to post the pattern she used too.

It’s worth noting that we didn’t actually want to send the yarn to her because it’s so yummy 😛 That rich colour … it makes us happy just looking at it!

Thank you, A Creative Pixie!

Product review – Giveaway winner reports!

The winner of our first giveaway was Judit from MonsterYarns. She won a set of circular knitting needles and has sent us her review below :> Her review is all her own opinion and first appeared on her own blog with photos here. Reproduced with permission.

Thank you for taking the time to review for us, Judit!

 

I knit a lot in public and on public transport. By necessity therefore I use circular needles to make sure that I don’t prod anyone sitting near me and attract even more weird looks than I normally do. So when UK Crochet Patterns ran a quick competition to win a circular knitting needle from part of the goodie parcel delivered from Red Heart , I jumped at the chance.

I don’t win competitions that often so I was thrilled to add to my collection of needles – especially gratis!

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My first impressions were of a good but basic quality of needle – the type where what you see is what you get. Unwrapping it however there were a couple of very pleasant surprises – nice tip on the needle and the coil is fantastic. Just the right amount of stiffness so that it doesn’t kink but not too hard so your work “floats” uncomfortably in front of you.

The needles have a clever curve a few centimetres from the join.

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Clever because the perennial problem with any circular needles is snagging on the join between the tip and the coil. The curve is meant to ensure that the knitting feeds in a straight line on to the coil. And it does. Clever.

What doesn’t quite work with these circulars is the join itself. Hopefully you can see in this photo that the edge of the needle is a lot wider than the coil and a little sharp. It’s aluminium after all.

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So the end result is snagging.

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This is not unusual in circulars but incredibly frustrating. There are a circular needles which solve this problem, no doubt through exacting engineering, and as a result tend to be on the expensive end of the range.

So my opinion – good basic circular, perhaps for when you’re travelling and you don’t want to carry your prized expensive ones, but watch out for the snagging!

Thank you Red Heart and UK Crochet Patterns.

 

 

First and second people to click this win …

… another set of circular knitting needles from the Red Heart goodies (first) and a ball of yellow 100% cotton yarn (second), so there’s a prize for both knitters and crocheters! As usual, the only condition of winning is that you review what you win!

Judit from MonsterYarns won the first set and has sent us a lovely review – to be posted tomorrow!

Thank you again to Red Heart for sending these lovely things!

First person from the Dark Side (knitters) to Like this post …

… will receive a free pattern sent to us by Red Heart for a cardi. Please note: it’s a knitting pattern, not crochet! The only condition is, as usual, that you have a go at it and tell us what you think :>>> Your review will be posted in the same way as a guest post and you can link to your blog as part of your signature. GO!