Knit and Crochet Away the Winter Blahs CONTEST!!!

It seems like a good time for another contest!!!  This time we're asking you to knit or crochet a hat from any pattern you like.  You can use any of our yarns: the 60/40 worsted, the Secret Island 6-color or even Edna's yarn.  Once you are finished with your hat you need to get creative!  Find a cool location or model to display your finished project and take a picture of it.  Email us the picture to info@goodkarmafarm.com and we'll choose ten finalists based upon the creativity and originality of the photo.  We won't be judging your hat!  From the ten finalists a winner and a runner up will be picked by our fans on Facebook.  The winner will receive a $50 Good Karma Farm Gift Certificate and the runner-up, $25 certificate.  Limited to one entry per person.  The Contest will run from Groundhog's Day (2/2/2012) to April Fool's Day (4/1/2012) so get your needles and hooks working!
You can use Good Karma Farm yarn from your stash, order it through our website, or buy it from any of our retailers.  If your LYS isn't carrying our yarn, ask them to! 

We can't wait to see what your creative minds come up with!  Have Fun!!!!

A Blogging Resolution

With 2011 winding down we have a week or so to kind of catch our breath.  This is the time that we spend making lists of all the things that we wished we had done in 2011 so that we don't forget to do them in 2012.  Top of the list is to do a better job keeping up with this blog.  This picture kind of sums up that resolution.

We have been keeping bees for over 10 years.  Some years we harvest the honey and sometimes we leave it all for the bees.  Our bees worked very hard this year and therefore produced a surplus.  Did we blog about the extraction process?  Nope.  We took lots of pictures that day and there they sit on the hard drive.  Next year we'll do better.

Same story for so many things.  Next year we'll do better.  

It's your turn to pick a winner!

One lucky person will receive this lovely yarn bowl made by local Belfast potter, Mary Trotochaud.

Please peruse the contest entries on our Facebook photo album, and "like" your favorites. Whoever gets the most votes by August 30th will win this bowl!

And the second winner is. . .

Oh dear. This photo is too lo-res for anyone to read. We could, in person, though, and the second winner is Jan Tricarico!

Congratulations, Jan!

A second chance!

Oops! Seems that Ingrid Ellison's entry was in our spam folder, and she wasn't entered into the drawing. We scratched our heads and wondered what to do!

The solution? A second drawing! Everyone (except our first winner, Linda Hanford) will get a second  chance to win eight skeins of custom dyed yarn! Woo hoo!

Oh, and here's Ingrid's cow, knit up in Seafoam:

The drawing will be on Thursday, July 21st. Who will be our lucky second winner?

And the winner is. . .

Congratulations, Linda! 

Thank You, everyone, for participating!

It's been really fantastic seeing all your wonderful creations. It's been great to see all the different finished objects folks have come up with using one skein of yarn. 

There's more to come. . .so keep your eyes open. . .

The very last entries have arrived. . .

. . .at five minutes to midnight!

Jan Tricarico's Lazy Knitter's Lacy Scarf:

Meredith Mills' Anthro-Inspired Scarflet:

We also received an entry from Mary McCoy, but we could not get the photo opened. As soon as we can, it'll be posted, along with the winner (whoever that may be!)