Independent Knitting News

If you are subscribed to the [tag]Knitty[/tag] mailing list, you already know this amazing fact. At some point during the day of April 13, 2008, the [tag]Knitty Magazine[/tag] reached an amazing amount of hits – 50 Million individual site visits to be exact.

So, what did the owner/creator of Knitty do?[tag] Amy Singer[/tag] sat down and decided to hold a contest to thank all the people who read the magazine. Amy contacted some Knitty favorites and they rushed to join in the celebration of this milestone event.

The first greatest thing about this contest is that you just need to be a member of the Knitty mailing list to be entered. The second greatest thing about this contest are the prizes. Wonderful Prizes!

• From Lexie of [tag]Lexie Barnes[/tag], a $250 gift certificate to her shop!
• From Beth of Lorna’s Laces, a sweater’s worth of the [tag]Lorna’s Laces[/tag] yarn of your choice, in your choice of color!
• From [tag]Potter Craft[/tag], you’ll get these six knitting books:
  Big Girl Knits * More Big Girl Knits * A Fine Fleece
  Twinkle’s Weekend Knits * Tweed * Shear Spirit
• From[tag] Knitting Out Loud,[/tag] their entire library of knit-related audio books:
  Stitch & Bitch * America Knits * A History of Hand Knitting
  Knitting Memories * No Idle Hands * The Art of Fair Isle Knitting
• From Jennifer of [tag]Stitch Diva,[/tag] her entire library of more than 40 Stitch Diva Patterns in knit, crochet and hairpin lace!
• From [tag]Cat Bordhi[/tag], her entire collection, autographed, including all 4 of her revolutionary moebius and sock knitting books and her novel, Treasure Forest.

So, what are you waiting for? Join the list!

Contest winner will be chosen by a random number generator on May 1, 2008 at 9 am eastern time. I can hardly wait!