Apr 3, 2009
Today! Chapter 2! Fun with the intolerant Puritans of the Dour
Physiognomies (love that word! Also love ignominious). I knit a
pair of Knucks in no time (necessity=invention. My hands are
freezing), I fall in love with the KOL book Knitting Lessons (good
reader!). 
And! A New Incentive Fills Our Lives! ...for
the first ever The March Hare loves CraftLit Design Contest! We have dyed up a brand new
colorway for our very special 70/30 wool/silk blend in a very
special CraftLit
colorway...a very rich, earthy, semisolid scarlet. Just what every
self-righteous Puritan would choose to brand one who strays. We
have of course named it The
Scarlet Letter.
Such a yarn of course demands a fantastic
design. That's where we're hoping CraftLit's endlessly talented and
creative listeners can help us. We'd like to challenge you
to design something for the yarn inspired by the novel, the times,
the characters. We'll have a fantastic panel of celebrity judges
pick the winner, who will receive the project's worth of
yarn. The
details: 1) All entries should be designed
with The Scarlet Letter
yarn in mind. Yarn
specs:435 yards per cake. 70/30 merino wool/silk. True
fingering weight: 4 ply with 14 wpi. 2) Knitting, crochet, weaving,
tatting, macramé, nalbinding...if you can do it with yarn it's fair
game. 3) Entries
must be in before the last chapter is posted to the CraftLit feed.
4) All designs must
somehow incorporate "the letter" or an interpretation thereof.
5) To be eligible
for the prize, the winning designer must agree to have their pattern available for
free via the CraftLit website for 3 months after the conclusion of
the contest. After that time all rights are retained in full by the
designer and the free feed will be removed, pronto.
6) Entries should at a
minimum include pictures of the final product and the complete
pattern. Everything else we leave up to you. Let your imaginations
run wild! And to sweeten the pot, The March Hare will donate 10% of
the proceeds from the sales of The Scarlet Letter yarn to CraftLit for the duration of the
contest. (Including the 3 month free pattern period for those
inspired by the winning project...) So there you be CraftLit faithful. Go forth and
create!
To Enter
Send your pictures of the final product and complete "pattern" (or instructions for whatever you've created) to the Craftlit email. Winners will be contacted via email before the announcement is made "on the air".
Contact us today! Questions? Email!
