Announcing a Holiday Contest for Knitters and Crocheters!
Clients perhaps have noticed that Artisan Knitworks loves hats almost as much as we love buttons. So — Using our yarns primarily, in addition to embellishments of your own choosing from anywhere, create an amazing hat for the holiday season. Judges will enforce these rules:
- Hats should be well crafted.
- The design should be original.
- The design also should be imaginative, humorous, eye-catching, wearable, and/or over-the-top
Hats can be holiday themed or not. Make lavish use of color, texture, or embellishments (pom poms, glitz, buttons, whatever you find interesting). Hats can be any gauge, any fiber. Please incorporate knitting, crochet or weaving in the submission.
Enter hats in one or both of the two divisions. Adult = 18-20 inches at the brim. Child = 14-15”.
First prize in both divisions: $ 100.00 store credit. Runners-up (2 or 3) in both divisions: $ 25 credit or one skein of Michigan-made, hand-dyed fingering yarn from our collection – your choice of yarn.
Deadline: Submit entries in person or by US Mail between December 15 and December 23 at 5:00 pm ET. Contest will be canceled or reduced in scale if we receive fewer than ten quality submissions.
Come into the shop with your creations so that we can take photographs on a mannequin. You can mail the hat. But we ask that you pick it up in person. We won’t ship your hat back to you. Submission conveys permission to photograph.
Then join us for the Mad Hatter Reveal at 4:00 on Sunday, January 5, at Artisan Knitworks! Refreshments (including bubbly beverages) will be provided!
If we use photos of your creation in one of our publications, we’ll acknowledge the maker.
For further information, contact Sandra at [email protected].
To submit, drop off, or mail your submission(s) to the shop and provide a sheet with these particulars:
- Your name
- Category (adult or child)
- Postal address, including zip code
- E-Mail address
- Telephone number
- List of materials used
- A name for the hat
No more than one submission per person in each division. Winners will be announced at the Reveal, but also on the Artisan Knitworks website, Facebook page, and newsletter by January 5 at 4:00.
Judges (preliminary list): Laura Scriven (Culture Creations, Chelsea ), Michelle Tuplin (Serendipity Books, Chelsea), Dawn Cook (novelist, Chelsea), Maureen Gorman (floral designer, Gregory), Becky Layne O’Reilly (Chelsea ), Sandra VanBurkleo and Artisan Knitworks staff.
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