Knitting and Yarn...

My contest prize winners have been patiently waiting for their gifts...and finally finished the last one up last night. They will be packaged up and mailed tomorrow. (Gentle reminder - Shephard I still need your address)

The gifts are hand knit washclothes (for the body - not dishes). The one with the lavender soap on it was knit out of Euroflax Originals 100% linen and is machine washable and dryable. The other three were knit out of Plymouth Earth Oceanside Organic 100% Organic Cotton. Also machine washable and dryable. The soaps are from Stonewall Kitchen, a Maine company which was established in 1991. This is some beautiful Noro Kureyon which I won over at Romancing the Yarn. It arrived the other day and I am busy thinking what I want to make out it. My camera actually did justice to the colors.And, this would be some beautiful white sport weight yarn (approximately 460 yards) which I picked up at The Windsor Mercantile over in Windsor, Vermont. Yes, I talk about going over to Windsor all the time - it is one of my favorite little towns. The Mercantile will be one of my new haunts as they carry Stonewall Kitchen items - which means that I don't have to drive up to Portland, Maine when I want to stock up.

We have winners...

The residents and anyone else who dropped by the Town Offices in Cornish picked out the winners of the Christmas Stocking Challenge. Actually, we had a tie:

The winners from my blog were chosen thusly:

The names of those who voted for Stocking #2 were placed into a bowl and a name was drawn -

The winner is: SHEILA

The names of those who voted for Stocking #6 were placed into a bowl and a name was drawn -

The winner is: SHEPHARD

Then I chose two winners from everyone who entered: JANET and NAOMI were the names that were drawn. I am e-mailing everyone to get let you know you won...

The stocking with the most votes on my blog was #2 - and I am getting a batik fat quarter to give her at our next quilt meeting.