I am quite giddy with excitement to share this week's prizes in my Fibre 4 Fibres raffle. They have been planned for quite a long time now and finally this week, the last element of the prize arrived in the post (having taken a scenic route to get here!) and everything is good to go! I had the idea of creating a Twelve Days of Christmas box as a little treat for someone. Lots of the indie dyers are doing them these days, but the amount of work that goes into them means that they can be pretty pricey and hard to justify spending that amount of money on yourself. My idea grew and it has become not just ONE 'Twelve Days of Christmas' box, but TWELVE! I've had some amazing donations from some incredibly kind and generous people, so thank you very much. The boxes are all slightly different (I'll explain how in a separate blog post), but let me show you the kind of thing you could win if you choose to buy a virtual raffle ticket or two (or three or five or ten! There's no limit!)
The prize includes a festive project bag in one of three fabrics which have been made and donated by my friend Ann who is BusyPottering over on Instagram. She rummaged through her fabric stash and picked out a couple of vintage Laura Ashley prints and a Scandi-style print. You will also receive a skein of indie-dyed yarn from my stash. There are lots of different dyers there but all are colourful! If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen that I have been busy winding lots of little balls of yarn - 144 of them to be precise! They all come from yarn leftover from my own projects and are all from indie-dyers (no commercial sock yarn like Opal or Regia) - think Crafthouse Magic, Ducky Darlings, Lay Family Yarn, Norah George Yarn, The Yarn Tart, Truly Hooked, Hedgerow Yarns, Burrow and Soar, Pixie Yarns ... the list of wonderful indie dyers is endless! Each one weighs approximately 10g so plenty there for a nice scrappy project. They have been wraapped individually and numbered so there's one to open on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Sarah from Fripperies & Bibelots has created a very special limited edition tin of ring0s stitchmarkers called 'Josiekitten's Jingles' and they are fabulous! Laura from Crafter's Balm and Bumbling Yarns has donated a tin of her wonderful crafter's balm and has also dyed two special mini skeins for each box. Julie from Tilly Flop has donated a sachet of Soak for each winner too. These come in various scents. There is also a little bag of treats from Lana Bou containing a postcard, badge and stitchmarker. Katriona, from Brocha Melts, has donated some festive hand poured soy wax melts in a variety of festive scents. To complete the box, there are some edible treats. Gnaw Chocolate (a local business) has donated a hot chocolate shot for each box (I bought some to try out in the name of customer research and they are rather yummy!), Eat Vive donated a box of vegan protein bars (they are my favourite snack bar and let's just say that I'm a good customer of theirs!) so there's one in each box, my favourite brand of tea, Yorkshire Tea, donated some tea bags so you can enjoy a cuppa while you're crafting away, and I've added in a bar of Lindor chocolate just because it wouldn't be Christmas without some chocolate, would it?! Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has made these boxes happen!
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 one of SIX Twelve Days of Christmas boxes for a minimum donation of £2! (There will be another SIX boxes available to win next weekend too.) Are you tempted to try your luck? Here's everything you need to know. This giveaway will run this coming Sunday 29th November, 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. Let's see how much we can raise this weekend! Last week was truly amazing as we passed £8,500 so £9000 is the next big milestone. I have to pinch myself sometimes that you've helped me to raise so much money. Thank you! xxx
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