Headband Giveaway Winner!

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Congratulations to Rachel, who would like a navy blue or charcoal headband!  (I could totally make an awesome navy blue one, which is a color I haven't done yet, so just let me know :P).  Make sure to check out her really cute blog when you get a chance - as if I needed another blog to follow, but it's super adorable.  And how excited am I that she's fairly local to me?

Snow gods willing (and oh, how they are willing this month!), I should be able to complete this in time to mail it out with my usual packages Saturday morning.  I hope you love it :D

Thanks so much to everyone who participated.  I was floored at the amount of excited entries I received throughout the past two weeks.  Because I couldn't just let you all off the hook...

Everyone who entered the contest will receive $5 OFF a custom Whitney Headband.  Normally $15, you can get yours for $10 (plus shipping costs)!  If you ladies are interested, simply email me with the color you'd like.  Once completed, I'll list the headband in my etsy shop for you to purchase.

Once again, thank you all!  I'm looking forward to my next contest.  Hmmm... maybe once I reach 50 purchases in my shop?  Or 100 Facebook fans?  So many options :)

Also, being that it was just Valentine's Day, I'd like to take this time to upset everyone who posted their anti-Valentine's hate spew on Facebook yesterday by declaring my love for my super supportive, fairly new hubby.  If anything, I keep him around because he has yet to throw out my yarn or create a huge knot it in when moving it out of his way, and he's letting me have a craft room in the new house.  Without him, I'd have nobody to hate the world with on a continual basis, which keeps me sane.  And he makes me chicken parmesan for Valentine's Day, a huge feat for someone who gets nauseous at the mere sight of cheese.  He's the bestest ever!  You can all vomit at our cuteness now:

Swap Hat = Done! (But shhhhh)

Once again, if you are my swap partner, do not click the "read more" link :)

Also, how cool am I for figuring out this whole "jump break" stuff in Blogger?  I think I'm pretty cool.

In other, not-so-secretive crafty news, projects abound at our apartment (oh, how I wish I could say house already!).  I'm afraid I won't finish my knitted feather & fan afghan before the end of March, which was the HPKCHC deadline.  I've been bringing it to work with me to knit during lunch instead of the headbands and hats I usually make.  It's going soooooo slowly.  Remind me to never knit an afghan again.  It's painful.  I wish I had chosen to do a crocheted one!

I also started one of the assignments for February classes over at HPKCHC.  We have to turn something scary into something not-so-scary.  I wanted to do this really easily, so I'm just making one of my cute Whitney Headbands with pirate skulls fair-asile-d on it in pink and green.  Because pirates are scary, right?  And the pink and green combo is pretty hysterical (I love pink and green together, but not with death skulls, so it's pretty entertaining).

I'll probably just end up selling it in my shop because it's actually turning out pretty cute.

Speaking of headbands, don't forget to enter my contest and possibly win a custom-made Whitney Headband for yourself!


Excitement always abounds when I get through the Foliage pattern with little-to-no ripping-out of hair:

This is the final version of the hat I blogged about here.  I haven't added the project to ravelry yet so my partner doesn't see it that way, and I really hope she doesn't read blogs, and I'm probably dumb for even bothering to post about it at all, but... I just love it too much!

Announcing My First Giveaway - A Custom Whitney Headband!

I know, the title gets me really excited, too :P

As a special Valentine's Day treat for you guys, I've decided to give away a custom version of one of my super-popular Whitney Headbands (example pictured below):

I'd love to make custom headbands for all of you guys, but then my fingers would either fall off or I'd be paying thousands of dollars to fix a severe case of carpal tunnel.  So a contest it is!

I would make the headband in whatever color you'd choose, great because then it can match your pre-existing Winter wardrobe (or be an adorable accessory come Spring).  Believe if or not, the most requested color is cream!  But heck, if you'd want it to be fluorescant yellow, then I'd make it for you in fluorescant yellow.  I've actually been dying to make one in such a bright color, anyway!

Excited?  Cool!  Here's how to enter:

1. If you're not already a JennyHats Facebook fan, then click here to become one!
2. Send your name and desired headband color to contests@jennyhats.com.

I will be drawing names on Sunday, February 14th, 2010, and hopefully announcing the winner the following day.  I can't wait to hear from you guys!  And right now, I'm seriously hoping I get entries, haha.

Swap project in progress

If you are my swap partner for The Odd Duck Swaps over on Ravelry, do not read any further!  Haha.  Because this post may or may not spoil your surprise.

The latest swap I'm participating in, due at the end of February, is about our favorite holidays.  My favorite holidays are Christmas and Halloween.  Because Christmas so recent, and I seriously don't need anymore Christmas goodies (just ask my husband who helped me put that stuff away a couple weekends ago), I decided to go with Halloween.

Even more fun is that my swap-ee's favorite holiday is also Halloween!  So I get to focus on my favorite holiday for her, too.

My bigger handmade item is going to be another Foliage hat.  It excites me every time I finish one because I really, really, really hate knitting lace, but the outcome is so pretty.  My swap-ee's favorite color is green, so that's what I'm using for this one.  I also started the hat using magic loop (it's a top-down hat) and I remembered that trying to do that on DPN's made me want to stab myself with them rather than make something.  It worked out pretty well:

The picture makes it looks super saggy, but it looks really adorable when worn.  And finished.  You can see my stitch markers at the end of each leaf repeat.  It's hell, I tell you.

I did have to restart the project three times because hubby and I have recently gotten into Dexter, so I've been distracted by Michael C Hall's amazing good looks.  Needless to say, you (well I) need to pay attention to this type of project.  And I don't really have the attention span right now to do that, haha.  So it's going pretty slow.

I hope to finish the last leaf repeat tonight at my knitting group, then knit the super easy ribbing really quickly this weekend so I can focus on the rest of the package.

I haven't purchased the yarn I'm going to include in the package yet, but I do know the theme I'm going for. I also need to pick up some treats, and this weekend I plan on digging through my stash for yarn to crochet some candy corn doo-dads.

In other news, I've been redesigning my logo and website, so we'll see what comes of that.  If you're already a fan of my Facebook page, you'll know I'm thinking about switching from GoDaddy to Webs only because you can integrate your etsy shop with your site.  Which would be awesome.  I'm also working on some ideas for YouTube instructional videos and project videos, which I think could be really fun for everyone (a bunch of people have asked me to do this, and I'm game!).  So lots of renovations will be coming over the next few months!

Shop for Haiti Special at OpenSky

100% of proceeds go to Haiti - woohoo!  The great news is that OpenSky has extended the dates on their Shop for Haiti Special!  This offer originally ended on Sunday, but has now rolled into today, so get yourselves over there and enjoy some knitting goodness over at Vickie Howell's shop (or anyone else's super cool shop, too!).

Personally, I wouldn't mind getting me some of these: