Last Minute Knitted Gifts Goes Digital!
We are so excited to announce that both of Joelle Hoverson’s Last Minute Knitted Gifts books have become available in ebook form! In celebration, the folks behind the ebooks, STC Craft | Melanie Falick Books and Open Road Media, are giving away a brand new Kindle Fire to one of our lucky readers!
Who are these generous people? STC Craft | Melanie Falick Books is the publisher behind a gorgeous collection of inspiring and visually stunning craft books, specializing in all of our favorite things: knitting, crocheting, sewing, and quilting! Follow them on Twitter and Facebook!
Open Road Integrated Media is a multimedia digital publisher whose goal is to connect authors to their audiences through intimate video interviews and interactive social media. Just like this behind-the-scenes interview with Joelle. Hear her insights into the culture and craft of knitting, and get inspired! Open Road Media is also on Twitter and Facebook. Learn more!
The Kindle Fire we’re giving away will come fully loaded with ebook versions of eight of STC’s most popular knitting books, including:
- Last-Minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson
- More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson
- Knitalong by Larissa Brown and Martin John Brown
- Knitting for Peace by Betty Christiansen
- A Knitter’s Home Companion by Michelle Edwards
- Weekend Knitting by Melanie Falick
- Knitspeak by Andrea Berman Price
- One More Skein by Leigh Radford
Don’t despair if you’re not the fortunate recipient of this Kindle, because all of these books are available to everyone from Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google eBookstore/IndieBound, Kobo Books, OverDrive, and Sony Reader Store. Download them to your own Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Droid, or whatever your electronic device of choice!
To enter this exciting giveaway, please comment on this post before noon Eastern Standard Time on December 22nd, 2011. Tell us your favorite two color combination of our 100% wool felt (you can see our entire selection here), and we will pick a winner at random later that day. Make sure to include a working email address in the email field of the comments form so we can get in touch with you if you’re chosen. (Your address will not be published.)
OK, one more thing! All of this Kindle excitement got us thinking… and creating! The result is a whole family of beautiful Felt Tech Cases. These two-toned Cases are designed to custom fit the square or rectangular device of your choosing: iPhone, Droid, Kindle, you name it… Made with 100% wool felt, these cases are a breeze to make and joy to use! To make your own please check out Laura’s Felt Electronics Cases here!
A huge thank you to both STC Craft | Melanie Falick Books and Open Road Media for making this incredible giveaway possible. Don’t forget to enter below and good luck and happy holidays!
A big thank you to everyone for entering the giveaway. It was so fun to read through all of your creative color combinations! I’m very happy to announce that the Kindle Fire will be going home with commenter Marilyn who commented: “I think a monochromatic look with Magenta and Deep Magenta would be really pretty. Thanks for the chance to win!” She has been contacted and the Kindle will be on it’s way to her shortly.
Again, thanks to everyone for participating and making this such a fun giveaway!
Happy Holidays!
1,150 comments on “Last Minute Knitted Gifts Goes Digital!”
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Seagreen and navy for me.
My two favorite colors of the wool are Melon and Peach….reminds me of a fruit juice cocktail blend Martha Stewart would whip up on a mid June day!! I muat be California dreaming!!!! 🙂
These colors are amazing (and so is the giveaway)! It's hard to choose but Spring and Ecru together brighten me up for the long winter ahead. Thanks!
While all the colors are great, I really love the lilac and gray!
I love Pea and Purple!
Sea green and white! Makes me think of the ocean.
A kindle would be so wonderful!
Pink and Lavender
Bright pink and fushia are fantastic together. Love, love , love them.
Bright Pink and Ochre! Definitely going to make these for ipad and iphone.
Periwinkle and Mouse __if I could only choose one combination. There are so many gorgeous possibilities that it is really difficult to narrow it down.
My favorite color combination is Purple and Dark Orange
Pink and fuscia are my favorites.
Sun and turquoise look like a fun combination to work with!
I love the Kelly and Deep Magenta…but there are so many to choose from, I could probably pick a dozen favorite combinations!
Sunshine and pea green! Love it. 🙂
My favorite would have to be light grey and fushia!
Bright Pink and Kelly (green)!
I love giveaways! My current favorite color combination is ochre and lilac. I like the unexpected quality of the combination.
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Leaf and ecru!
Sea green and light grey!
Light gray and bright yellow! Great giveaway, so excited!
I pick spring and pacific!
Today, I really like fuschia and charcoal. Yesterday, it was bright yellow and charcoal. All the colors are great!
Wow! What a giveaway!
I love Bright orange and Charcoal as a winter combo and Seagreen and White for the summer.
Lovely… Turquoise and Bright Pink!!
I love the combination of: magenta and carnation
There are so many beautiful colors. Right now I'm in the mood for steel and moss.
I'd love to see the combo of Cinnamon and Grape!
The colors are all wonderful – it would be fabulous to own them all. My favorite combos at the moment are: Cerulean/Sun and Pink/Steel.
LOVE this!
Bright Yellow and Spring!
Fingers crossed! Happy Christmas!
XOXO from CA
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Sun and Pacific!
Love those cases! I'm feeling very cheerful and bright these days so I'd say fuchsia and sun. Happy holidays!
Of course I love Seagreen. And for my second choice, anything that goes with Seagreen;) How about Orange!
Thanks so much for hosting this fantastic giveaway!
Love nutmeg & coral
Thanks for the very generous giveaway
So exciting to have these available on my ipad
Love coral & nutmeg
Thanks for the amazing giveaway
So excited to have these books available on my ipad
Spring and Melon!!!!!!!!
We live in Seattle so Sun has to be in one of the combinations!
Sun and Coral
Pea and Magenta
But I love all the colors! Hard to choose!
Thank you for the giveaway – I love Deep Magenta and Cobalt combo.
nice giveaway!
beige & cinnamon take the cake for me….
happy holidays everyone xo
favorite combos:
1. sunshine, pea, nutmeg and lapis
2. ecru, sun, bright orange, bright yellow and butterscotch.
this is a great giveaway!
What an awesome give away! I'm in love with the turquoise and sun combination. Very complementary and they make me happy!
Ciao for now!
I love Seagreen and Charcoal together!
I would use black and red to complement the aura of the Kindle Fire itself. The colors would also provide a perfect foil for the black case of the Kindle itself. How wonderful it would be to carry knitting resources in a succinct format like this.
Merry Christmas
Fave: Sea green & Cerulean
Ahhh-loha! Love the colors of the ocean! Love purlbee!
Peppermint and pink! It's earthy but flirty. The hippie-girl-next-door.
Merry Christmas!
My two faves are Magenta and Moss!
What a gorgeous giveaway and what gorgeous felt colors! I love the ecru and wheat! THANK YOU.
I have to say I'm a fan of Sun and Coral.
WOW!!! I would love to have these books ready at my fingertips. THanks for the chance.
I love it- this would be amazing to win!