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The Happily Handmade Giveaway has begun!
Entries are now being accepted to the Fall 2006 Happily Handmade Giveaway! We have 69 amazing sponsors for this event, and we encourage you to visit each and every one of their sites. You can enter once through each sponsor’s website, that’s 69 chances to win!
What can you win? One of 50 amazing gift baskets chock-full of indie goodness!
Sam at sambot has a nifty tutorial for making a functional and stylish laptop sleeve.
Sarah, one of the whiplash hat winners has written a pattern for her kiddie flapper hats.
I received a number of requests in the comments on Whip Up and from people who found my blog thorugh Whip Up, for a pattern for the Flapper Hats that I entered in the last Whiplash competition. The pattern is now up here. I’m far from an expert when it comes to writing knitting patterns but I wrote this one with the beginning knitter in mind and I thought it might be of interest to others beyond those Whip Up readers who requested it.
Grace over at design*sponge has a Shop - Go and check it out! She says:
every month we’ll feature 6 indie artists making handmade goods. this month is: karin eriksson, lena corwin, maria of port2port, henry road, jenny sauer of threesheets2thewind and amy adams of perch. 100% of proceeds go to the designs and i’ll dontae 10% of the ad revenue every month to charity.
Ashleigh in Holland from stitched in Holland sent me a link about the Innocent drink Co in the UK who are donating 50 p to Age Concern for one of their drinks sold clad in a wee hat.
There is a pattern available online. They need 175,000 hats from willing volunteers! See this post at stitched in holland for all the details.