Fibre 4 Fibres Giveaway preview 26

 By the time you read this, I will hopefully be hooked up to my next chemo infusion. I'm a little anxious about it all because I am hoping that the blood tests I had yesterday are going to be better than the last ones. I had an infusion of a bone protection drug last week, and oh my goodness, it didn't half make me feel poorly over the weekend. I was told that I might have 'mild flu-like symptoms' and they weren't wrong! I had a temperature of almost 40 degrees on Saturday and Sunday and felt like I'd been hit by a bus. Thankfully, on Monday, everything was back to normal again! I managed to get quite a bit of sock knitting done too, my chemo socks are progressing well and I've started the second one.

I can't tell you how thrilled I am with how my fundraising is going. I so appreciate every single donation that is made, and can't quite believe that in the next couple of weeks, all being well, the total should pass £6000. I have lots of prizes to give away, so even if I reach my £10,000 target, I will carry on with the raffles.

This week's raffle prize is all about colour. The prize includes a copy of Gradient Knits which has been donated by Search Press. To go with the book, I have tried to pick some gradient yarns, so that if you're the winner, you can have a go at some gradient knitting (or crochet!) There's a sock set of two 50g Opulence gradient yarn cakes from Knit Circus in the colourway Tropical Sunset, a set of five 20g miniskeins from Burrow and Soar, two balls of Mini Mochi 4 ply yarn, a Wee Sheeps yarn fade kit and a fun zipped project bag, both of which have been donated by Ruth and a pair of cute sheep progress keepers which have been donated by Hannah Daisy Crochet. Huge thanks to all the very kind prize donors.

I'm sure that you know the score by now, but I'll tell you how to enter anyway! You have a chance to win all these gorgeous prizes for a minimum donation of £2 - less than the price of a cup of coffee! Are you tempted to try your luck? Here's everything you need to know. This giveaway will run this coming Sunday 27th September, closing at 23:55. To enter, go to my JustGiving page here and buy your virtual raffle tickets by donating £2 or more. £2 gets you 2 tickets, £3 gets you 3 tickets, £5 gets you 5 tickets and so on. The more you donate, the greater your chance of winning. You will need to leave your Instagram or Ravelry name, or tick the box to share your details with me when you make your donation, so that I can contact you if you are the winner. This is really important as I have no way of knowing who you are otherwise. Each week, I still get donations where no name or email is left, so if that person's number comes up in the random number generator*, I have no idea who it is! All your donations go the Myositis UK to help fund research into this incurable muscle disease, so thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your support. Every single donation is important. My fundraising efforts even got a mention in their latest news update, and that's thanks to you! Let's see how much we can raise this weekend! How close to the next milestone of £6000 can we get?! xxx

* I thought I should explain how I give people numbers. Each week, I set up a new spreadsheet. Each £1 donation gets one line of the spreadsheet, so I fill in each row with a person's name. If you donated £5, you would have five rows. The spreadsheet is filled in in the order that the donations are made.  As the admin of my Just Giving page, I can see all the donations with any message, email address and contact name etc that has been left (this is not all shown on the Just Giving page for anyone to view.) Then, once the raffle is over, I generate a random number using a generator on my phone, between 1 and whatever number is the last row of my spreadsheet that week. Once the number has been picked, I look at the spreadsheet to see whose name is in that particular row number.