Play Tweet Your Prize with Artbeads

Play Tweet Your Prize on Twitter for your chance to win some fantastic jewelrymaking stuff!!

Add @Artbeads on Twitter, then to enter, simply follow the instructions below for tweeting a link to the item you’d like to win and telling your Twitter followers about the giveaway. With each giveaway, you’ll have a chance to win your favorite item in the featured prize category.

To play Tweet Your Prize, keep an eye on tweets from @Artbeads and be ready to act fast. Each Tweet Your Prize giveaway will only be open for limited time. After the entry deadline, we’ll pick a winner at random from among all of the Tweet Your Prize players. The winner will be sent a direct Twitter message and will be announced through a new @Artbeads Twitter message as soon as they claim their prize.

If you are already on Twitter, you’re ready to play. If not, just visit www.twitter.com and create your Twitter account. Now let’s have some fun!

CURRENT GIVEAWAY DETAILS
Prize Category: Express Yourself Sale
Entry Begins: Thursday, June 11, 2009
Entry Ends: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9AM PT
Winner Selected: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

HOW TO ENTER:
Step 1: Follow @Artbeads on Twitter so we can direct message you if you win.

Step 2: Pick your favorite item from the current Express Yourself Sale prize category page.

Step 3: Create a short URL of your favorite item’s description page by visiting www.tinyurl.com or other site to shorten the page URL.

Step 4: Copy the message in bold below to your Twitter message box and edit it to replace the words “PASTE ITEM TINY URL” with the new Tiny URL you just created of the prize you want to win. Your new message should also include the second TINY URL that goes to this Tweet Your Prize information page. This way your friends will know how to play too! Now, tweet your message. Good luck!

I would express myself with this PASTE ITEM TINY URL from @Artbeads! Tweet your favorite for a chance to win http://tinyurl.com/djzynl

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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