It's Treasure Hunt Time

Rather than a weekly question this week we are starting the big competition of this swap - the Blog Treasure Hunt. This is a great chance to get to know your fellow swappers, to do a little detective work to try and work out who your swap pal is (if you don't know already!) . Browsing other people's blogs and Ravelry profiles may also give some great ideas about what to put in your swap package.

The best part though is that there is a fabulous prize, more details from Delle very very soon.

Here are the rules:
All the answers can be found within participant’s blogs or Ravelry profiles - links to all of the participants are in the righthand border of the blog. Don't forget to check the UK Swappers blog too.
You can use yourself - for as many times as applicable.
You do not need to rush to send in your answers, simply complete the list and email it to ukswap@googlemail.com before the deadline and you will be entered into a Random Draw for the great prize.

Deadline: Midnight on Sunday 10th August 2008.

Here are the questions

1. Name 3 participants with dogs
2. Name 2 participants who live in Scotland.
3. Name 2 participants who crochet - post a link to one of their crochet projects for an extra point.
4. Name 3 participants who listen to Podcasts.
5. Name 2 participants who have taken part in Tour de Fleece
6. Name a participant with an advert on Ravelry
7. Name 5 participants who like "Staying In"
8. Name the participant who loves "The Flumps"
9. Name 3 participants who like herbal tea
10. Name 4 participants who dislike novelty yarn
11. Name 3 participants who have children
12. Name 2 participants whose favourite colour is red.
13. Name the participant who has grown an artichoke.
14. Name 2 participants who have knitted lace stoles in the last 6 weeks.
15. Name 2 participants who loath Big Brother

What are you waiting for? Get hunting!

Question of the Week # 6

The topic is music this week:
Of all the bands/artists in your cd/record collection, which one do you own the most albums by?What was the last song you listened to?
What’s your favorite local band?
What’s the worst CD/record/etc. you’ve ever bought?
What was the first single/album you ever bought?

Don't forget to leave a link to your post in the comments, if you answer more than one question in the same post, don't forget to leave the link in all the relevant comment sections

Contact reminder

Can I remind you all to keep in regular contact with your swap partner. Ideally you should be emailing at least once a week, though we understand that this is holiday season, so some of you might be away and miss a week (though if this is the case, could you let your partner know).

If you haven't done it for a while, go email your partner today!

Question of the Week #5

Quick fire questions this week, based on a game I've played with friends whilst on (very long) car journeys!
Choose one - don't think just choose...
1. Stop or go?
2. Going out or Staying in?
3. Small town or big city?
4. Happy or sad?
5. Straights or Circulars?
6. Red or Blue?
7. Seaside or countryside?
8. Fish or chips?
9. Surprises or plans?
10. Wine or beer?
11. Sweaters or cardigans?
12. Pizza or Pasta?
13. Chopsticks or fork?
14. Early Bird or Night Owl?
15. Knitting or crochet?
16. Hot or cold?

And now for the picture part of this quiz (copied from a meme that's going around at the moment)
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

Then upload the mosaic to your blog!

Don't forget to leave a link to your post in the comments, if you answer more than one question in the same post, don't forget to leave the link in all the relevant comment sections.

Question of the week #4

A knitting theme this week...

What is your favourite thing that you have knit? (It might not be your favourite thing to wear but it was the most enjoyable to knit).

What is the worst thing you've ever knit?

What are your favourite knitblogs?

What is the most amazing knitted thing you have seen (This Ravelry thread might help)

What is your favourite knitted item to wear? Post a picture if you can.

Don't forget to leave a link to your post in the comments, if you answer more than one question in the same post, don't forget to leave the link in all the relevant comment sections.

Sponsor Spotlight

This is our first Sponsor Spotlight, with a wonderful gift from Amanda at The Natural Dye Studio.

We have not one, but two skeins of her speciality, Bluefaced Leicester Dazzle Sock Yarn.

We have one each of the Heatwave and Tropical Mist colourways.




This is the first time I've actually touched BFL yarn, and it is lovely and soft and squidgy. It's easy to see why this is Amanda's speciality. I will definitely be adding some to my stash in the near future.