OCTOBER is officially ACCESSORIES month –

Accessories are: additional ornamentation or decorative pieces, they can help to highlight the good bits or hide the bad bits.
You can accessorise your outfit, your self or a household object.

The usual three categories: skill, design, or a tutorial or pattern of either of these.
Contest open 1-17 OCTOBER

Don’t forget to check out the book ideas page to help you get started.

NOTE: If you have already uploaded your link for this challenge please upload again.

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Categories:

TUTORIAL:
I love a good tutorial – these must have clear photos or illustrations and good detailed instructions, the project can be simple or complicated, but the main criteria is how easy the tutorial is to follow, how clear the instructions, how good the images.

SKILL:
This section is for you if you are showing off your skills in a particular craft.

DESIGN:
This section is for you if your design is your main thing. If you going for something a little wild or imaginative.

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Prizes:

Prizes – I had so many prizes last month that I still have some left – so I will be carrying a few prizes over as well as offering the sampler 3 month subscription to one lucky winner.


The Sampler is happy to provide a three-month subscription of handcrafted and short-run samples from independent businesses — mailed directly to your door!

Pure knits has donated various colourways sample equally approx 6 skeins of hand dyed bamboo.

Dream Weaver Yarns has donated a learn to crochet kit which includes 3 skeins of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Chunky, a crochet hook, a booklet and CD on how to crochet.

Rohrspatz and Wollmeise has donated 10 skeins of sockwool superwash, in various colourways, one skein is enough for one pair of socks.

Tall Poppy Craft Products has donated 6 sets of chunky knitting needles worth AU$40

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To Enter:

see this post for visual instructions

*Make your item – you have two weeks to make it and upload it – check out the theme – these are usually pretty general and meant as a starting off point only, and decide which category you are entering it under.
*Post your item on your blog – include a whiplash badge in your post – good clear photos and a good story will help your post be noticed.
*To enter you need to be a member of this site – if you are not yet a member then you need to sign in.
*Once you are logged in you will be able to upload your link
*You will need to grab a button and post it on your site in the sidebar and also in the whiplash post – we need to know that it is an official entry to the competition.
*Your entry needs to be posted on your blog and have good clear images, and an explanation of your item. You might like to explain how you made it, what materials you used, and anything else that will make your entry stand out – we love a good story almost as much as a great photograph.
*Once you have made your item, post it on your blog, include a whiplash badge and log into whipup. You are ready to upload your link.
*To upload your link you click “ADD YOUR LINK” at the top of the sidebar on the whiplash page, please enter the name of your item and your permanent URL – this is not the URL to your blog main page but to the static page of your whiplash post.