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November remembered

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)50 Comments

November days seem to have sped past me here, and although I’ve been busy with lots of different things I don’t seem to have much to show for them, though I have managed to snap a few pictures along the way. Autumn has peaked, with all it’s golden glory and the trees have seemed particularly spectacular this year. Our November highlights have included misty mornings; sudden storms; golden leaves and golden skies; wood walks; sock and mitten knitting; comfort food casseroles and the first fire lighting of the season.

Yesterday was the start of meteorological winter and it does feel like autumn is now over. Most of the leaves now lay strewn across the lawns, and the winds have turned chilly and persistent. It’s a good time for curling up in a cosy spot and knitting warm things and I have been mostly knitting socks and mittens. I was so taken with this ‘golden praline’ colour that I’m using it in two separate projects and knitting from either end of the skein at the same time, not something to be recommended as it does lead to lots of bad words being uttered at the terrible tangles that develop. The pattern for the socks is ‘Lucky me socks’ by Pia Kammeborn and the mitten pattern is ‘Alfredo gloves‘ by Suzanne Stallard. The yarns are all The Uncommon Thread tough sock, and I’ve paired the ‘golden praline’ with creamy ‘manuscript’ and dark, moody ‘cobble’.

My thoughts are now turning to celebrations of the winter solstice and Christmas and I’m looking forward to having our family all together again when Amy comes back in a couple of weeks. I’ve felt a little quiet and melancholy of late, so all of the sparkle, warmth and fun of late December and the New Year will be very welcome. I hope to be around here a little more over December days, so hope to see you again soon. Thanks as always for dropping in to visit with me.

 

crafts & knitting

Finishing touches

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)44 Comments

Thank you again for all of the amazing, inspiring, smile-evoking, heartwarming and generally all round lovely comments on the giveaway post. It’s been such a joy to read them and to hear about all of the things, whether big and momentous or small and personal, that make you happy. Thanks for taking the time to share, I think I’ll be dipping back in to read those comments whenever I’m feeling blue as they certainly lift my spirits.

I’ve now updated the giveaway post to include the 2 winners and I’ve been in touch with both Nina and Linda and have had lovely excited replies from them both. I’m looking forward to seeing which of these animals they’re going to choose. Once they’ve chosen their prizes I’ll be finishing off all the rest of those above, who at the moment are each needing some finishing touches like buttons or tails and then (along with one more poor left-out girl lamb who is waiting to be sewn together) I’ll be listing them for sale. As next week is half term break here I’ll not get much work done but as soon as they are ready to list I will send out an email to my mailing list with specifics on times etc. There’s a sign up sheet over on the right there if you’d like to be notified.

Well, thank you again for taking the time to enter my anniversary giveaway and for your interest in my makes, I still love knitting them after all of these years and I have lots of ideas for the future too, so will be making them for a long while yet 🙂

 

crafts & knitting · Giveaways

Time for a giveaway

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)1,929 Comments

Back on September 3rd it was my 12th anniversary of starting this blog, and in keeping with tradition (which admittedly lapsed a bit last year) I’m going to celebrate (a little belatedly) with a giveaway.

In this crate are fourteen little animals that have been patiently waiting for me to finish them for most of this year and I am now nearing the point of completing them all. I will be putting them up for sale soon, but before I do I’m going to pick 2 comments at random from any comments left on this blog post, and those 2 people can each pick their favourite one as their prize. The draw is open to anyone and I’m happy to post for free anywhere in the world. If you’d like to be included just leave a comment below. You can write anything you like, it really doesn’t matter, but if you have time I’d love for you to tell me about anything that has made you happy this week.

Please can I just ask:

A. Just one comment per person, and

B. Make sure you fill out you email address in the space provided (not in the actual comment field as there it will be displayed for all to see) so that I can contact you if yours is the comment picked.

This post will be open for comments until 12 noon on Friday 26th October (a week from now). At that point I will close the comments and use an online random number generator to pick 2 comments, the first drawn will have 1st choice of the available animals and the second drawn will have 2nd choice. Oh, and please don’t leave a comment on bloglovin or any other blog following service, as those will not be counted – only comments left right here on this post will be eligible for the draw.

Thanks so much for following me here, I know some of you have been popping in almost since the beginning of my adventures in blog land and some of you are new visitors. Whoever and wherever you are, please know that I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to stop by and I love reading your comments when you have time to leave them. This blog is such a source of support and friendship to me and I hope to keep it going for a long time yet. I hope you’ll continue to join me when you can,

J x

 

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Thanks so much to everyone who has taken the time to leave a comment here, together all of the comments are a wonderful collection of diverse, heartwarming, moving and personal accounts of what happiness can be. Thanks for sharing xxx

Here are the winners:

The first number that has been generated is 498, which is Nina Chester

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Nina Chester said…

Please put me in your fabulous hat x

October 19, 2018 at 05:34 PM

 

And second number picked is 1624, which is Linda from Boston
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Linda from Boston said…

Congratulations on 12 years!! I’ve been with you from the beginning. Throw my name into the contest pool!!!

Thanks again to all who entered, J xxx