Calling all crafty readers! Kristen Rask, crafter and owner of Schmancy a cool toy store in Seattle, has generously offered her new book Creature Crochet as a giveaway.
This book kit features 80 full-color photographs with step-by-step techniques for 12 adorable patterns, and includes materials to make two cute crochet projects! Now, one of you gets to have it for free!
Here’s how to enter:
Note: This giveaway is open to US and Canada residents only.
Write in the comments box below, why you deserve to win this adorable Creature Crochet book. The contest will run for a week and end on Thursday, September 3rd at 6pm PST. One lucky commenter will be selected at random to win. Good luck!
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Updated Sep 3rd, 2009, 7:50pm
A lucky winner has been randomly selected. Congrats to #41 – Amy P who has won the fabulous Creature Crochet book! Thanks everyone for participating!
I would LOVE to have this book! I’ve been looking for a new craft to spend my extra time on and to maybe give as gifts and I think this is just perfect! They’re so cute!
I would love to win this book for my sister! She is so crafty and always looking for new cute and fun things to do. And an extra plus is that the craftier she gets the more cute stuff I get!
Exciting! I’d love to have this book! I am a pretty crafty girl, but when it comes to crochet I just cant figure it out. This book would surely help and then I could make some cute little animal friends!
I am an at-home mom of three kids, 11 months, 2 1/2, and 4. All day I take the kids to activities and tend to their needs. Then comes housework. At night I go to school online, staying up late to work on homework to complete my master’s. I do the budget, I schedule the appointments, and I even get my kids involved in doing good deeds for others. I adore learning new crafts and hobbies, but have not taken the time to do anything for myself in a long time. I deserve the chance to do a fun, guilt-free project just for me!
I can’t think of any reason I deserve it, I just want it! Very cute.
i adore this book and i want to make all the little creatures in it! i’m new to knitting and crocheting and i am desperate for little things to practice on. no more pot holders, i could make little creatures for my little one at home! how cool!
I just started to learn arigarumi, I’ve made one creature of my own design, but fail to know how to make anything more! I’m more of a bookie, and prefer reading something I can take with me, the patterns on the internet always seem to get lost (or dissapear) I could use such a book for my library
i’ve been wanting to learn how to crochet! i’ve been doing an artist way and my inner child deserves this to keep her excited about creating! xo
abby jane´s recent entry: 3 minute story
I’d love to win the book, I’ve just started amigurami and I’ve made a penguin a turtle and a bear, the zoo needs expanding though!
I would love to win this book! I suffer from migraines, and sometimes when the pain is starting to subside, crocheting is the only crafty thing that I find soothing. Learning to make new animals would be so much fun.
Brigid´s recent entry: Pearl Portrait Necklace
Ooh! I’d love to learn to crochet… it’s always been one of those things on my to-do list! This book would be such an adorable way to start.
I have been living very frugally, trying to keep our finances under control while my husband tries to start his own business; I would love to have something as a treat for myself that I could use to make some cute things for my kids and their friends.
Laura Letiecq´s recent entry: Working on some labels
My daughter and I will have many bonding moments as I teach her to crochet with this adorable kit. So cute.
I’m not sure I deserve to win the kit, but, oh how I would love it if I did!!
my kids would LOVE these. and i would lOVE to learn to crochet. such a win-win.
wide open spaces´s recent entry: 10 things that make EvaBear happy -
I would LOVE this! I’ve been wanting to learn how to crochet for soo long!! This is the cutest thing!
As a mom, I don’t have much time left and that could be a great thing. Especially since it could be a gift to my son, made by me. Handmade gifts are always the best and the most heartwarming ones. It could also be a better reason for us to hand out with grandma! Except that she’ll play more with baby than help me doing this!
RaVe´s recent entry: OH MY GOD!
This is such a cool book! I’m in grad school, and rather than wasting my evenings after staring at a computer all day by staring at the tv, I’d much rather be making one of these animals! I’d start with the hedgehog- my boyfriend’s mom collects them!
This is so cute! I have always wanted to learn how to crochet things other than scarves or blankets.
Now that I’m back at a college where I’m basically ALWAYS bored, this would certainly give me something to do! Then I could make these for all my friends and send them along in some care packages. I would love to make the fish and give my fish Abe a friend to hang out with. hah.
I want to win, yet don’t really deserve to win – I slept late today, woke up grumpy, ate chocolate for breakfast and am now in a sugar slump and it’s not even 10.15am yet.
But I love crochet – it’s just so fun!
My sister crochets, but I knit. I want to learn to crochet and I want her to expand her crocheting repertoire. Plus, I just had a baby and this would be a fun way to make him some toys.
I want to win this lovely little book because I taught myself how to crochet from books that I checked out at the local library. I learned to crochet so that I could make adorable creatures like those pictured on the cover. Thus far, I’ve made a panda, a mouse, a cat, and a ghost. I would love to add to my amigurumi collection. Good luck to me!
Donna´s recent entry: Tuesday Five – Cats in the News
I would love this book! I have used both the books Crobots and Creepy Crochet and just can not get enough of making these little creatures for friends!
OK, that book is adorable to just LOOK at! I would love to try my hand at making those cute creatures. As a Canadian, I NEED a crochet beaver (I think it is a law or something…)
Heidi´s recent entry: Doll Artist Feature: Mimi Kirchner
I would love to have this book, it’s so adorable and my kids would love if I made some cute little animals
Casey´s recent entry: found
Oh I love those critters! We (hubby & I) are always looking for beaver critters (even real ones here in Colorado) as well as hedgehogs, and I’d love to make an entire school of fish! Pick me! Pick me!
I love making amigurumi and I would love to have more ideas and patterns for Christmas gifts this year!
I’d love to win this book so I could give it to my mom! She always grouses about not having things to do, and wants to learn crochet.
My landlord says I can’t have any pets in the apartment, these will be my companions!
Pick me! Pick me!
I’ve recently gotten out my crochet hooks, the ones my mom bought me when I was about 12, and retaught myself some stitches. I’ve looked at a few animal patterns online but have been so intimidated by them. I’ve really enjoyed my crocheting though, so I started an Etsy store to sell all the stuff I’m making. Only a few things listed but I’m getting there!
mrspooley´s recent entry: Summer Enjoyment
My great aunt taught me to crochet when I was 5, unfortunately I didn’t keep it up and no longer remember how. This kit would be a wonderful way for me to relearn crocheting and remember my great aunt whom I think of often and hope she is in a better place.
Hi,
I really, really deserve to win this because today I have proven I have the wherewithal to learn how to crochet. I was making a shawl and ripped out the mistakes at least 50 times. On the 51st try I did finally did it right! Now I’m hooked! Yay!
I would love this book! I recently taught myself to knit, and was just contomplating crochet the other day. What better way to practice than starting on animals? One day I want to be able to do something more complex like this: http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/Brain/index.htm
I need practice!
I love to crochet. My Great-grandmother taught me when I was about 10. I am very into crafts, and would love to expand my knowledge of crochet by learning how to do the adorable little animals, and the book would be handy for that. (:
I’d love to learn to crochet. I’m away from my home and have two nap times a day where I could make lovely things for my little girl and our friends, and this book would be the perfect beginning.
I should win bc I have freakishly long and slim fingers which I think would be perfect for learning how to crochet
That and my 3 year old daughter would love all the new friends I’d make her. Thanks!
Agnes D.´s recent entry: Crafty Crush: Craft & Creativity
I cannot think of why I deserve this book, but I would love to own it and make the animals. Currently, I am having to rotate and spend 2 hours up and 2 hours in bed all day for health problems after a recent surgery. I like to keep busy in bed during this down time, so this would be awesome to pass the time and help me feel better about having be in bed so much. I am the type who likes to always be busy.
Thanks for offering this giveaway!:)
Michelle Loyola´s recent entry: Historic Home
My amazing canadian cousin melanie has 5 kids and another on the way – she is a crafty wonder for certain, and her adorable kids love making things as well! Picture it: Melanie, with her twin boys, 2 girls, and other boy, and future mystery baby, working with their hands and singing O Canada!
Please help! I’m being held hostage by my children. Send Creature Crochet Book as soon as possible.
Beth ´s recent entry: Fiffer-feffer-feff
I deserve this because my family is going through a very hard time and crocheting relaxes me and I also sell stuff I crochet for extra family money.
This book is absolutely adorable! We have alot of new babies just born in the family and I would love to be able to make each child his and her own personal softie
Amy P´s recent entry: White Wire with Blue glass beads crochet bracelet
I would love to win this because i want to learn something new. I will greatly appreciate this book ^__^
Hilda´s recent entry: kind of remade…
I would love to win this book because the only thing I can crochet is wash clothes. My mother would love it (and you) if I would move on to something else!
Think this book would be an awesome way to take away some of that boredom when there’s nothing else to do around the house… crochet’s are awesome
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I deserve to win this awesome book because …. it’s the only way I could create tiny hedgehogs to leave on random desks at work. Wouldn’t that be weird to find a fuzzy hedgehog left on your desk and not have a clue where it had come from?
Jen´s recent entry: Pet Shop Lullaby
I’m so in love with crafts, my newest obbsession is crochet. Currently working my way through the Creepy Cute Crochet book but I’ll need new projects soon, and I have such a soft spot for critters!
christina headley´s recent entry: Holy Crap it’s been over a month!
i love love love kristen rask and crocheting! ive only done blankets and shawls but i would love to learn how to do cute creatures!
I just started to learn how to make amigurumi! I bet this book would help A LOT! I would really appreciate it if I won
Sally´s recent entry: Flight #2- Zipper flies
I’m looking for another thing to distract myself from graduate school. Crocheting small creatures sounds good.
Reward! Reward! Reward! I love to reward my Kindergarten students for doing so well in what they do best. Being themselves. I would love to crochet something special like these cute creatures for a special surprise gift. Thanks for the opportunity to try to win this awesome book.
I so need to expand my crocheting away from just blankets and scarves. And I have a passle of brand new baby cousins in great need of soft toys!
I would love to make such cute gifts for my toddler cousin!
This book has so many cute patterns that I could manipulate into a variety of gifts. I’m always looking for little gifts to say i’m thinking of you, i love you or have a happy day. Gifts should say how you feel towards that person.. and what better way than to send someone a little cute animal that you’ve made yourself.
It looks cute. I think I work so hard as a mother, so I think I deserve it.
Oh my goodness this is a cute book! I have always wanted to learn how to do amigurumi. Winning this would make my week!
Aimee´s recent entry: The new bedding
Looks very cute! All the stuff on your web site is great.