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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Oh and as always YOU CAN'T VOTE FOR YOURSELF - cos that's cheating!

Knitwear funday RESULTS: round 9 - knit minnit

Your winners for this week are all newbies (except third place, but this was only his second entry so I'm still gonna call him new...)

And without further ado, in thrid place you chose:

David and his Baywatch babe knitwear.  A challenging barbwire jumper remincient of Pammy Anderson's (nee Lee) infamous tattoo.

There was a close battle for the winner.  Most people voted for these two and only ONE VOTE seperated these two knitwear funday newbies.

In a very respectable second place, you chose Lionel, at Dodgeball in his sports sweater. 

And your winner for this week was none other than Shane, aka Don Gacy.  His chuncky office cardy and charming smile were the favourite for most of you this week.

Welcome to knitwear funday Shane.

As always to the victor goes the spoils...



And one more treat because it's ace....

Knitwear funday: round 9: nek minnit - VOTE NOW

Round 9 of knitwear funday is now open.

So get your VOTE on: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GDDVDFT

This round 9 is dedicated to Levi aye

Knitwear funday RESULTS: Round 8 - the second wind

Apparently it was really hard to choose a winner this week - I know I struggled to choose the one I thought was the best.

This week there we three stand out entries - so much so that none of the other entries got votes.

Who is you winner?

Well you couldn't decide (collectively that is...)

and so we had a tie - a THREE WAY!

Your knitwear champions were:

Johnny's ode to the dark knight - living the caped crusader wet dream.

Kirstie cracking up with her quacker of an entry.

 (I' so sorry I could not get your picture up the right way - I've tried EVERY SINGLE THING - and nothing works!)

And me using the force in my Vader knit.

As always to the victor goes the spoils... and since there were many winners...

Knitwear funday 2012 - The best of the rest

This was your chance to choose the best non-winning knitwear entry for 2012 (and just a smidge of 2013).

Every entry had come either second or third in the week where it was entered.

I know loads of people found it hard to choose a winner - but after a week of voting - you have finally had your say.

And the joint third place - best of the rest entries were:

Sarah in the green pearly knit. 

One of the people who voted for you was my Aunt - because she had one just like it.  It would appear good taste runs in the family :)

And Vickki in her jumper knitted out of ALPACA wool.

In second place - and my personal favourite - was Mel with her addition to the hunting wall. 

And the winner - that you voted for - was...

ME!

Those cute penguins really tugged at your heart-strings!

As always to the winner goes the spoils...



RESULTS for knitwear funday round 7: the end of the line

This round 7 of knitwear funday for the 2012/13 season.  This is when the fun of competing with knitwear meets the reality of most people's wardrobes.   And so, this weeks knitwear funday had fewer entries than usual - although all of excellent quality.  

In second place we you chose Emily in her nordic knit next to a delightful sculpture.

When I first saw this picture I thought the sculpture was some kinda giant screw man, but of course it turns out to be the hamburgler with a stretched neck... 

And this leads us to the main event.  Your knitwear champion.
This week's winner won't be a surprise to most of you - it was Sarah in her eye of the tiger sweater.

This amazing black and white jumper was the clearest winner of all time. And I mean of all time.  

No one has ever had more than half of the votes, and yet this week time nearly everyone voted for Sez and her Survivor tribute.  She got almost 90% of the vote!

So for a stand out victory, we need a stand out prize.

This week the prize comes via Jo.  Thanks for finding this unusual little knitwear gem...

Wearing the hair of the dog:  People who wear knitwear made out of their pets fur.

And a tiger treat, just because I couldn't resist it.