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Announcing Yarnspirations Yarn Giveaway Winners!

By Yolanda on April 15, 2016 in Giveaways / Contests 30

This is a short post to announce the winners of the Yarnspirations Yarn Giveaway. This giveaway is a way to thank all of my blog members. The winners will be able to select 10 skeins of their choice from among the yarns sold by Yarnspirations. The 3 winners have been notified to the email they used when they become members of this blog. They will have until next Thursday, April 21 at 5pm (PST) to claim their prize.

The mail contains all instructions to claim prizes. If they do not respond within that time to claim their prize a new winner will be chosen to take their place. Remember only those people living in the USA and Canada are eligible to enter and win.

The first winner is: Saundra Shackelford

The second winner is: Margaret Ellis

The third winner is: Ivette Gutierrez

If you didn’t win don’t despair, I have man more giveaways and some contests planned for the rest of 2016. To be eligible you simply need to be a member of this blog. It is free and your information is always kept confidential. The sign up box is along the right hand side of this blog. Be sure to become a member today if you haven’t already done so.

I want to thank my friends are Yarnspirations for their generosity and support. Please help me in Congratulating all the winners. Thank you all for your support. I love you all so much. Please be sure to follow me on all my other social media sites. The icons are here at the bottom.

Yarnspirations Yarn Giveaway! Enter for a chance to win 10 skeins of your choice

By Yolanda on April 6, 2016 in Giveaways / Contests 490

UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. Winners have been notified. Thank you.

It’s Giveaway Time!

Some of my favorite things are giveaways. To thank all of my blog members I have partnered with my friends at Yarnspirations to do a giveaway. This one is a little different than most. This time Yarnspirations is allowing the winner to choose 10 skeins of their choice. This is great because if you have a project in mind you can select the yarn you want to use. They can be all of one type of yarn of all different. Yarnspirations is the maker of Pattons, Bernat, Caron and Sugar ‘n Cream yarns. I think winners may have a tough time making their yarn selections.

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Announcing Lovie Book Giveaway Winners!

By Yolanda on January 27, 2016 in Baby Crochet Projects, Crochet Projects, Products I use 7

Knit and Crochet Lovie Books

First I would like to thank everyone who participated in this giveaway. It was really great to see how many of you liked the content of both books. Today I want to announce the 3 winners. Each will have a choice of either the Knit Animal Lovies book or the Crochet Animal Lovie Blankets book. All 3 winners have been notified at the email they used to sign up to become members of my blog. These giveaways are my way of saying thank you to everyone who has supported me and shown that extra love of becoming a blog member. Being a member is free and it guarantees you will be kept up to date on new posts, giveaways, online courses and lots of great projects.

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Let’s celebrate 2016 with a Giveaway – Crochet and Knit Animal Lovie Books!

By Yolanda on January 19, 2016 in Baby Crochet Projects, Business, Crochet Projects, Giveaways / Contests 292

UPDATE: GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

Let’s celebrate 2016 with a giveaway. A choice of my Crochet or Knit Animal Lovie Blanket books.. woohoo!

I can’t believe it’s already 2016 and almost the end of January! Where does the time go? It seems the older I get the faster time seems to go. I remember being a small child and feeling like a year to forever to end. I wanted it to get to the end of course because that meant Christmas. 2015 was full of so many fun and new experiences. One of them of course was release of my Crochet Animal Lovie book. Later that year I completed a Knit Animal Crochet book which was released this month January 2016. Some of you may have already seen it.

Both books are available at Joann’s, Hobby Lobby and Walmart. Some people have told me they have found it at other stores as well. The Crochet Animal Lovie book also has a mini-book format that is available for sale only at Wal-Mart. Unfortunately the Knit Animal Lovie book will not be made into the mini-book format. Both books are also available for purchase online from LeisureArts.com They also have a downloadable version.

I want to host a giveaway to welcome in 2016. I will be giving away 3 signed copies of my Animal Lovie book. The winners will be able to choose either the Crochet or Knit version. I realize that everyone does both so this will give everyone a chance to choose the book the prefer.

To enter this giveaway just

1) become a member of this blog (It’s free and your info is never shared) and

2) add a comment below. Something like “I want to win the Crochet Animal Lovie book” or knit book.

That’s it. In 7 days I will choose the winners. I will announce the winners with a follow-up blog post AFTER the winners have been notified. The giveaway is opened worldwide.

These lovies are so fun and addictive to make. They make perfect gifts. I hope you will enter the giveaway today and Good Luck!

P.S.- Be sure to share the post with your crafting friends. Sharing is caring! XOXO

Crochet Lovie Book

Knit Lovie Book

Knit Lovie book by Yolanda Soto-Lopez

Wow, am I embarrassed

By Yolanda on September 15, 2015 in Business, Giveaways / Contests 46

Wow, am I embarrassed. You know life is full of those oops moments. Happens to me more often than I would like to admit. Well last week I had one of those moments. This is what happened…. As some of you know I like to give away a little something to those people who are members of my blog each month. Last week I wanted to say thank you to all my blog members for being so great and supportive of this blog. (Even though I am not as consistent as I should be..darn life gets in the way). I decided to give away a free pattern to my blog members.

I chose one of my favorites the Criss Cross puff stitch cowl. My patterns are mostly on my Ravelry store (some here also). I went and prepared what Ravelry calls a promotion. I went and selected my pattern and chose the coupon code which I shared with blog members thru an email. I thought everything was set up correctly and hit that send button on my email list. Well.. the coupon code wasn’t working correctly. I contacted Ravelry and they quickly set up a direct link to enable members to download the pattern… problem was.. it was the wrong pattern. Totally my fault not theirs. I must have gotten confused and given the wrong name.

This reminds me of those TV commercials.. that say “Kinda of like you, isn’t you.” So here are the two cowls that caused the confusion.

When I re-send out the email it gave away the cowl on the right instead of the orange cowl on the left. I apologize for the mistake. The free pattern giveaways are for blog members only. I had asked members in my email to please NOT share the pattern codes with others. I also stated to please be sure to include the code (so you can check it’s working), prior to checking out as I would NOT be issuing refunds for people who did not check out correctly. Well, someone did share the pattern code with another person. Shame on you. That person (non-member) completed the check out process.. even though the code wasn’t working. They were charged the $5.50 for the pattern. This really enraged them (they send me an angry email calling me all kinds of bad names.. oh, they called my mother some pretty bad stuff too) and so they opened a complaint and request for a refund from paypal. They also went and put a complaint on my Ravelry store. They told Paypal I was ripping people off and must be stopped. Really? This person wasn’t even a member.. so I could argue that they were the one trying to rip off me and my members. Oh, well.. the issue has been resolved. In the future I am pleading with all members please DO NOT share the codes. This person offered to give me the name of the person who gave them the code if I would refund them the $5.50… yup, threw their friend right under the bus for $5.50. Disappointing.

I want to correct the mistake for members who received the wrong pattern. So tomorrow I will be sending out another email to members only to give them the direct link or the orange cowl since this was the intended pattern giveaway for September. You should have already been able to download the diagonal cowl on the left which I also really like. If you are not a member you can join at any time. It’s free, just put in your first name and email address. I need your email address to send you notifications and links for free patterns, special promotions available only to blog members and previews of coming projects.

Back to the topic of crochet. I love making cowls now for the fall season. Remember you can use any color or brand yarn (medium weight) you like. These work up pretty fast and make great Christmas gifts and sell very well at craft fairs.

That’s all.. carry on folks!

XOXO,

Yolanda

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