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Saturday, June 18, 2005
Contest time!
Mood:  on fire
Now Playing: The Beach Boys "California Girls"
Topic: Fiber
The time has come for me to make some decisions.

I need to start preparing for fall fiber fest season. In order to do that, I need to do some massive amounts of dyeing and fiber prep. This is where my readers come in. :)

I'm going to hold a contest. The winner gets a skein of this:




It is 85% German angora, 15% merino wool yarn. There are approximately 200 yards per skein. It has been washed and is ready to knit. This retails for $15 per ounce, and there are approximately 100 yards per ounce.

Or, if you'd like, I will make up a custom batt for you in your colorway if you are the winner.

The rules of the contest are (and I'm copying Cherry Tree Hill Yarns from when they did their colorway contest a few years ago):

Send me the colors you want to see in a carded batt, roving or yarn. It must contain at least 2 colors (and no more than 5 colors), and send me the name of your colorway. Include an explaination of your colorway (did you see these colors while on a vacation to the Cape, are they in your garden, etc.). Be as detailed as possible so that I can get the colors the way you see them. These must be original colorways, please! The winner of the contest will be announced in on July 1st. Your name and colorway will appear on the roving/batts ("Kathy's Romance" as an example).

Ready, set, go! :)

Posted by baycolonyfarm at 8:37 AM EDT
Updated: Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:38 AM EDT

Monday, June 20, 2005 - 1:28 PM EDT

Name: Dharia
Home Page: http://skeintilyclad.blogspot.com

how fun!
i need clarification... what exactly do you want us to send you? images as swatches? dyed fiber? just a description? i'm perplexed. but i've got some ideas already to go!

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 10:43 PM EDT

Name: Cindy D
Home Page: http://cindyknits.blogspot.com/

The colors I choose are dark red and gold. The name for this colorway is Chinese Money.

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 1:18 PM EDT

Name: gale (she shoots sheep shots)
Home Page: http://ezisus.blogspot.com/

How about a copper/orange /deep yellow called Iced Tea w/Lemon
or a reddish orange/brighter orange/light orange called DayLily?

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