And the winner is…

14 Tuesday Feb 2012

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Susan Dougill

Congratulations Susan! As soon as you send me your postal address, I will send you your two brooches.

Here is the screenshot that randomly selected no. 84.

How did I award numbers to subscribers you may ask?

My 103 subscribers consist of 30 fellow WordPress bloggers, and 73 email subscribers (WordPress bloggers also receive copies of new posts by email so it’s the same thing). However, I had to deduct two from 103, seeing as I subscribe to my own blog 1) via my work email adress and 2) as a WordPress blogger – hence 101 as the Max number.

In Excel I listed all the blog followers and email addresses in one colomn. I then sorted them alphabetically and that’s how each person was allocated a number. When Random.org selected 84, I just referred to Excel sheet to find the corresponding email/blog address. All very scientific and fair. Promise!

Thanks to this Valentines Day giveaway my blog subscription went from 80 to 103 since its launch on 6 February, which is amazing! Thank you to each and every subscriber that help me reached over 100 subscriptions. You are the best!!!!

To the rest of you who weren’t lucky enough to be drawn, here’s a Valentines Day card* from Me to You.

I hope you all have a super duper Valentines Day!

*The card is available to purchase in LemonsForLemonade‘s Etsy shop.

A Valentine from me to you

06 Monday Feb 2012

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Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January. – Jim Gaffigan

So true Jim. February won’t be February without a mention of Valentines Day, and here at crocheTime, I’m jumping on the bandwagon by giving away a Valentines Day gift to a lucky reader.

To say a HUGE thank you to everyone who follow me and my hooky ways, I’m giving away this set of flowery brooches.

All you have to do is subscribe to the blog by midnight GMT 13 February. As easy as that!

You can subscribe by going to the top right hand side of the page and enter your email address where it says “Click to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 80 other followers”.

The 80 followers I already have, will also be entered into the draw.

I’ll be using the www.random.org random number generator to select the lucky blog subscriber. I’ll post the result on Valentines Day on the blog and the Facebook page.

Good luck hookers!

And the winner is

05 Sunday Feb 2012

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…Beatrix from Vienna, Austria!

Congratulations Beatrix! Your square clock will be in the post very soon.

Thank you too to the other eight ladies who bought a pattern. I appreciate your custom and look forward to seeing your completed clocks! You can link them as projects to the pattern on Ravelry.

Thank you too to Hubby who was the official impartial name drawer.

A pattern and a giveaway

20 Friday Jan 2012

Posted by Natasja in Etsy, My crochet, My ramblings, Pattern

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Today is a HUGE day me and crocheTime. It’s the official launch of my first pattern! It’s this pattern that kicked of my little crocheTime shop and lead to this blog. It’s the crochet wall clock pattern!!!!!!!

Now you too can crochet a clock for yourself or as a gift (please don’t sell it as it’s still copyrighted to me).

I listed it on Ravelry last night. What a rush to see my own little pattern right there in “recently added crochet patterns”!

The possibilities with this clock really are endless. You don’t have to use white for the clock face, and of course the four cirlces can be any colour, or combination of colours. I also give crochet instructions for four different types of edgings, so even if you stick to circles for numbers 12, 3, 6 and 9 you can make four different clocks just by changing the edge.

To personalise it further you can use any applique type crochet design (like I did with flowers) for the 12, 3, 6 and 9. As long as it’s flat enough that clock hands can move over it freely. I’m thinking stars, hearts, cupcakes. Anything will do!

Apart from crocheting instructions I also explain (and show with a couple of photos) how to assemble the clock, using hardboard and a hot glue gun.

The pattern can be purchased for £3.50 in my Etsy shop. Just click here to go straight to the listing. If there are any buyers from South Africa, you can choose Other as your payment option and pay R35 into my FNB account. Just send me a message via Etsy and I’ll give you the bank details.

Once payment is received I will email you the pattern as a PDF file.

But wait, there’s more!

Everyone who buys a pattern between today and midnight GMT on Friday 3 February will go into a draw to win this clock. I’ll draw the name at random on Saturday 3 February and let you know via my Facebook page and the blog who the lucky winner is.