contest

The winners of the recent Stitch your Stash Challenge are:

1st place — Judy Furie

2nd place — Debbie Thomas

3rd place — Jenni

4th place — K Blodgett

5th place — Lee Seroka

Congratulations to the winners and everyone else who participated. Everyone who refgistered for the challenge is getting a prize.

Follow this link:
Stitch your Stash Winners

CRAFT and MAKE Halloween Contest Winners!

by Carla Sinclair

in Announcements,Halloween

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Grand Prize Winner in the CRAFT category: Business Lizard and Brief Case Diorama

After hours of judging and tallying, CRAFT and MAKE has zeroed in on this year's Halloween Contest Winners!

1st Place in Costume: They Live Alien Masks
1st Place in Props: Mini Gun Madness
1st Place in Decor: Asian Fortress Halloween House
1st Place in Food: Halloween Skull Truffles

Grand Prize Winner in the MAKE category: Scary Ticket Booth Build

Thanks to all of you spooky crafters and makers who participated! For more photos, links and details, head on over to Make.

CRAFT and MAKE Halloween Contest Winners!

by Carla Sinclair

in Announcements,Halloween

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Grand Prize Winner in the CRAFT category: Business Lizard and Brief Case Diorama

After hours of judging and tallying, CRAFT and MAKE has zeroed in on this year's Halloween Contest Winners!

1st Place in Costume: They Live Alien Masks
1st Place in Props: Mini Gun Madness
1st Place in Decor: Asian Fortress Halloween House
1st Place in Food: Halloween Skull Truffles

Grand Prize Winner in the MAKE category: Scary Ticket Booth Build

Thanks to all of you spooky crafters and makers who participated! For more photos, links and details, head on over to Make.

Boo! It’s Halloween Month!

by Carla Sinclair

in Announcements,Halloween

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Welcome, Crafters, to our spookiest month of the year, where fun, creepy, and tasty-treat crafts abound. Of course the October theme is Halloween, and do we have a lot in store for you!

Easy Halloween Mummy

You've probably already noticed our head start on Halloween posts, like the Easy Halloween Mummy and Candy Corn Cupcakes. But now we'll be adding lots of Halloween exclusive projects. Some will land on the side of "tricks," including a spinning bat toy, wearable brain cap, pair of braided black cat ears, and ghoulish window silhouettes to haunt up your house (just for starters!).

Candy Corn Cupcakes

Others will fall into the "treat" and sweeter side of things, such as a sun-bleached pumpkin shirt, festive Halloween bunting (by Vanessa Coppola, shown at the top), candy corn creatures, and a candy tote to put all of your goodies in.

Doggy Ballerina Costume

But that's not all!! This is also the month of our CRAFT/MAKE Halloween CONTEST! We'll have four categories: Costumes, Decor, Props, and Food. Keep your eyes peeled for the gory details, coming soon...

Happy Halloween!

Stitch your Stash Reminder

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Just a reminder today is the last day to register for the Stitch Your Stash contest and get the extra sign-up bonus (you can still sign-up after this but your get fewer points to start).

And new or already registered, be sure to submit the names of the projects on your list. You earn points for every project you register.
And for new projects you get extra points if it’s a UFO and when you finish, you get extra points for an all stash project.

New signups can be through the contact form (in the links on the masthead), via the comments here, or by direct email to me.

Finishes and new projects to register should be emailed to me.

Yesterday I worked on two UFO’s so I’m stitching along with you.

The rest is here:
Stitch your Stash Reminder

Stitch your Stash Contest

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Fall is upon us and, if you’re anything like me, you are itching to do some stitching.

I’m anxious to stitch up many of the small projects in my stash and so I’m announcing a program/contest running from now until December 21 and the start of winter.

You need to register to participate and everyone who does will get some kind of prize. Prizes include thread packs, books, coupons good for my ebooks, discounts on classes and more.

Here’s how it works. If you want to participate, contact me to register. Just for signing up this week you’ll get a 25-point bonus, signups after Sept 26 get only a 10 point bonus.

The goal is to finish projects that are under 10″ square. For each registered piece you finish, you’ll get points. Points will be totaled prizes awarded after December 21.

For each registered piece you’ll get:

5 points for registering it
5 points if it was a UFO from your stash (must send scan to show it as UFO)
5 points if you only used stash threads to complete it
10 points for every completed piece (must send scan to show it stitched
10 points if you frame or finish it
15 points (plus project points) if you enroll in one of my classes for Art Needlepoint

These can be projects from anywhere: guild programs, UFO’s, presents — whatever. I have some new stuff that will be announced in the next few months and you’ll get extra points for signing up for them within a specific period.

I’m putting together some fabulous gifts for the top five point totals, but everyone who registers and completes one project will get a prize.

I’m taking this on as a challenge to myself as well and I’ll let you know how I’m doing.

Excerpt from:
Stitch your Stash Contest

Perle Cotton Giveaway

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Thanks to the generosity of a friend who is cleaning up her stash, I have a big bag of perle cotton in full skeins to give away.

There are 32 skeins of #5 in many different colors and three skeins of #3.

In order to win this giveaway, please add a comment to this post, telling me why you like perle cotton.

Entries will stay open until September 9, 2011 at midnight Pacific. I’ll announce the winner on Sunday, September 11.

Good Luck!

Originally posted here:
Perle Cotton Giveaway

Challenge to Finish Small UFO’s

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Come to the Point in San Rafael is having a great contest/event from now until Sept 1. Best of all it’s open to Internet shoppers as well as those who shop in person.

I’ll let the owner, Michelle, explain it to you in her own words:

Small e Project Termination e Month ber!

This new Points Program focuses on completing our stash of small UFOs. Enrollment is free, and you may sign up at any time. In order to earn the most points (and a 50-point Signing Bonus!) please enroll by September first.

Project Guidelines:

Projects must be smaller than 12 x 12

Projects may be any hand or machine sewing technique

Projects must be registered; items may be added at any time

Project themes may be of stitcher’s choice

For completed hand-worked items to receive points, a minimum of one component used in production must have been purchased from Come to the Point.

Projects do not have to be completed in September. You must, however, register for the program by 9/30 to qualify for points.

Maximum Points Possible is 1,000

Each point earns ten cents toward shop merchandise.

Signing Bonus before September first: 50
Post-9/1/2011 signing bonus: 10
Points per stash project completed: 20
Points per completed post 9/1/2011 15
In-stock canvas or kit purchase
Points per project registered: 10
Points Earned When Stitching “In house” 25/visit

The following items earn one point per dollar spent:

Threads

Self-finishing items

Special Orders

Stitching Aids

I will maintain a spreadsheet of all points accumulated.

Points may be earned from September first through December 15, and must be redeemed by 31 March 2012.

Points may not be applied toward finishing costs.

There is no cash value.

In order to receive full points, I need to see a photo of the completed stitching. Pieces do not have to be in their finished format. That applies for every participant.

I look forward to working with all of you!

Happy Stitching!
Michelle

I signed up right away. I’m hoping it’s a kick to get me finishing some stuff (like those Christmas ornaments) I hope you’ll join the fun as well.

Continue reading here:
Challenge to Finish Small UFO’s

Stash Busting Challenge

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

While I’m doing better at getting rid of my stash, it still bothers me that there is so much thread around here. And I think, no matter how small or large the stash is, it can nag at you.

So I want to issue you a challenge for using up your thread stash.

I want you to take threads from your stash at random. Pick up to 50 different colors and threads.

Completely at random. Completely. Don’t try to compose anything while you pick.

I’m thinking that I’m going to ask someone to do this for me, since I can’t help composing.

Add to this one thread that is going to outline everything.

Put them in an opaque bag (not a clear one).

Make a diamond-shaped grid on your choice of canvas any size you like. Do this by drawing diagonal lines every 10 threads throughout the area.

I have a small Stirling tote that’s been sitting around for ages waiting for some stitching, so I’m going to do that using 13 mesh canvas.

Every other diamond will be one of your stash threads. The other diamonds will be a background color chose after all the diamonds are stitched.

Pick two stitches. One will be for your scrap patches. The other will be for your background patches.

Pick a thread from the bag at random. Stitch one diamond in this thread using the first stitch you picked.

When this is completed, put that thread back in the bag and pull out another thread. Stitch another block and repeat the process until all the blocks are filled.

Now looking at your stash, pick a thread for the background (it’s OK to buy a thread for this one).

Here’s the challenge part. The challenge will be open until June 15. Once you’ve stitched your piece, send me a scan. You’ll be entered into the competition. I’m going to put up a gallery of submissions and folks can vote for their favorites.

There will be prizes for the top vote getters.

The most popular (voting will close July 15) will win a fabulous prize.

See the original post here:
Stash Busting Challenge

Easter Egg Design Contest

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Easter Eggs from modmyi.com blog entry

Join DMC’s new design contest. Create your original design for an Easre Egg using any combination of our embroidery floss, pearl cotton, Color Variations threads, Tapestry Wool, Light Effects, Satin Floss, Color Infusions Memory Thread, crochet threads, or our line of Machine Embroidery Threads.

Your design can be in cross stitch, embroidery, blackwork, quilting and appliqué, knitting or crochet, tatting or needlepoint. Embellishments such as beads, buttons and charms can be used as well.

Three winners will be picked. The Grand Prize will get a full set of DMC floss and the runners-up will get DMC specialty thread packs.

The deadline is March 31, 2011 via email.

Get the details of the contest in the linked post.

Read more here:
Easter Egg Design Contest

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