GET YOUR KNIT ON - round 3 is open!

Put on that sweater, take a snap and send it in.

Entries close at 12 midnight on Friday 29 November.

The rules are here.

RESULT - Knitwear funday Round 2: revenge of the knit

Week two of this season's Knitwear funday is now closed.

Round 3: the rise of the knit will open at 9am on Friday 29 and close at 12 midnight. 

Round 2 was another excellent edition of jumper, sweater and even blankety entertainment (if I do say so myself.)

Before we get into the winners, a little more about this week's entries...

There were 11 entries, a few less than last week, but what was lost in quantity was made up for with the quality of the photography.

A few people really put in some extra effort to accentuate the beauty of their sweaters (I'm thinking of you Jacob and Cat!) and others let their amazing knitwear do all the work.

We also had a another double photo entry - which was really nice to see.

You then went and voted for your favourite. 

In the end, this week, much like last week, there were two clear front runners right from the start.  However, as the results below show, one person in particular stole the show...

...so now for your winners! 

In third place for the second week in a row it was Ryan and his dapper red golfer.

Another par three for Ryan.  And once again Ryan shows off a jumper that I want!

In second you voted for Jacob somewhere seriously rocky.

This was a great photo.  It was snapped in Cardigan Bay.  I think you should look into another line of work because you could be a man that models...

And your winner for round 2: "revenge of the knit" is...

Stephen and his rams

CONGRATULATIONS!

A smashing jumper, a fabulous smile and a great attention to detail (I love the blog in the background and the tasteful welsh mug in particular!)

As always to the victor goes the spoils:

And give this one below a couple of minutes... it's worth it!

And one more because it's rad!



All the results:

VOTING is OPEN for Round 2: revenge of the knit

Voting is now open for Round 2: revenge of the knit.

I don't think I'm being over dramatic when I say: 

There are 11 rip-roaring knitwear entries this week that will test your judging abilities to the MAX.

There are red ones, and green ones and black ones, stripey ones and animal ones, ones in the dark - there is even one with a skeleton!

So good luck - and judge well knitwear peeps.

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Results will be published on Thursday 28 November, just in time for Round three!

Round 2: revenge of the knit - is OPEN

Send in your entries by 12 midnight on Friday 22 November for Round 2 of Knitwear funday. 

The rules are here.

Go on - you know you want to.

Seriously... go on...

RESULTS: Winner for "Round 1: let the fun begin"

Voting is closed for this week's Knitwear Funday.  

Entries for Round Two: the revenge of the knit, open at 9am Friday 22 November and close at 12 midnight.

Now it is time for me to tot up the votes (actually Survey Monkey does all this for me... but let's pretend that I'm doing it.)

First a little context to the opening round.

This week had the largest number of entries for knitwear funday ever.

There were 17 smashing jumpers and cardies to choose from, snapped in many different places (my favourite location was Eleonore buying TP!) 

Interestingly this did not make it that hard for you to choose your winner.  As you'll see from the results below, in the end it was a two horse race.

Watching the voting through the week, it looked like just one person was going win by a landslide.  

However a late surge saw 80% of the votes cast in the last two days going to our eventual winner.  

And now, the results!

In third place, you chose Ryan the Wolf-man.

If I was going to buy a jumper from this week's entries, it would be this one!

And in second place was Katrina and her hipster elephants.

The bright colours and even brighter smile made this one really stand out for me.

And your winner, for the first round of Knitwear funday for winter 2013/14 was...

Lionel in his triple jumper 

CONGRATULATIONS!

I'm not too sure if it was the knitwear style innovation or the bad pun that did it!  

I like to think it was your lovely cable knit cardy.

As always, to the victor goes the spoils...

The numbers:

Voting closes at 12 noon on Thursday

A reminder that voting for this round closes at 12 noon on Thursday 21 November.

If you've not voted - do it now!

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I you have, here are some amazing knitted creations by Patricia Waller

Ernie hits rock bottom after Sesame Street is cancelled

Experimentation...

Step one of sausage making - mince pork through a number 6 mincer....

Round 1 voting begins!

All the entries are in, now it's time to vote!

Thank you so much to all the people who entered this week.  As you'll see there was a lot of knitwear on show on Friday!

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Result: winter 2013/14 Champion of Champions

Last season I won.  

I was pretty pleased about this - as you can imagine.  And I'm pretty sure the winner of this year's Champion of Champions will be too.

Now for your Champion of Champions... 

We had 9 rounds of Knitwear Funday - with 12 winners, each with a smashing entry.  This made for a really tough field, but as Robert MacLeod says "there can be only one..."

And your one was...

Champion of Champions!

The eye of the tiger - Sarah in her dangerous white cat knit!

Congratulations lady face!

You were a clear winner with 25% of the vote. 

Your trophy is in the post... (seriously!)

In the meantime here are your rewards...

And here's the band

And this is lovely!


The other placings were:

2nd Steve (me) in his (my) reindeer jumper 20% and 3rd equal in his (my) Vader knit 15%, also 3rd was Owen in his polar knit, 5th Scot in his Apres Ski knit 10%, 6th equal Shane in his office cardy 5%, 6th equal Claire - santa's little helper 5%, 6th equal Sarah in the essence of Christmas 5%.

Knitwear funday starts this week!

It's what you've been waiting for - the return of competitive knitwear.  Keeping you entertained and your wooly threads gainfully employed over the chilly winter months. 

This Friday you can enter the first round of this winter's Knitwear Funday. 

All you need to do is wear knitwear and send a picture to steve.maple@gmail.com on Friday.  

To inspire your entry, the third season of Knitwear Funday starts with a look back at last years entertainment  and a search for the 2012/13 Champion of Champions. 

Starting today, you can begin voting for your champion!

Last seasons Knitwear Funday was EPIC.  There were were 9 rounds - which meant a deep wardrobe for those who managed to enter every round!

The winter of 2012/13 had 12 winners including two winners in round three and a three way tie in round eight.  Your job is to vote for your favourite knitwear champion.

Voting closes on Thursday 14 November, with the winner crowned as champion of champions here on Friday.

• So go on take a deep breath...
• Get your clicking digit ready... 
• And vote for your favourite jumper!

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