National Craft Month 2018 and Week 1 Giveaway Announcement

National Craft Month 2018 Giveaway Announcement AND Week 1 Giveaway

3/5/2018

Welcome To National Craft Month 2018

UPDATED 3/18/2018: The original winner for the Week 1 Giveaway did not contact us... we have re-selected a winner and contacted them. Thank you all for making Week 1 of National Craft Month our biggest and best yet. We've emailed the new winner and are waiting to hear back from them. If they do not contact us within 48 hours we will choose another lucky entrant… so make sure you are checking those inboxes!

Some people's favorite time of the year is Christmas, with all the trees, packages, hot chocolate, and good cheer. Other's love Easter, with the new grass coming up, colored eggs, and chocolate bunnies. Many folks love Halloween when the air gets a chill and little monsters come knocking at your door for chocolate goodies. Wait... do we really love the holidays, or the chocolate??? Anyway, we happen to love another holiday all together, National Craft Month! And would you believe that its upon us now; March is National Craft Month...WOOHOO!!

Whereas Christmas has Santa, Easter has the Easter Bunny, and Halloween has The Great Pumpkin (He's real… we've seen him). National Craft Month has...drum roll please... The Shibaguyz! Yes, we've called in all the big guns of the craft world to come together for an entire month of AH-MAY-ZING weekly giveaways right here on the Shibaguyz Designz Blog, all culminating in a grand prize that will have your crafting fingers twitching to get busy making all the things! Prizes include:

A Gift Certificate from the Buffalo Wool Company
Skeins of our favorite yarns from Cascade Yarn
Skeins of our favorite yarns from Valley Yarn
Lamps from Ottlite
Bottles of leave-in wash from Eucalan
Craft tools and supplies from Clover
Handmade craft tools from Stephen Willette
Copies of individual magazine issues from Fiber Art Now
A one-year subscription to Fiber Art Now magazine
stitchips digital magazines and patterns from Stitches Events/XRX
and Copies of books and digital patterns from The Shibaguyz

The best part is all you have to do to enter for the weekly and grand prize giveaways is go to shibaguyzdesignz.com/craftmonth and register. Once you register for a weekly drawing you will be registered for all following weeks AND the grand prize. Easy-Breezy!

So let's get this ball rolling with the Week 1 Giveaway!

WEEK 1 National Craft Month 2018 Giveaway

Here's what's included in this week's giveaway.

OttLite is providing a mini flip light. Just like the ones we keep in our bags during shows!

Eucalan is providing this week's winner a Eucalan Getaway Gang Pack. The pack includes single use pods of Eucalan Wash in 4 scents and 1 unscented, Eucalan wipes (which have saved us while out on the road on more than one occassion), nail file, and sewing kit.

The Shibaguyz are happily offering one stitchip of your choice from either our Limited Edition Knit Collection or Limited Edition Crochet Collection. Each chip holds 12 patterns in enhanced PDF format (meaning they include links to tutorials and other fun stuff).

To get you truly inspired to make something FAB, Fiber Art Now, a quarterly print and digital magazine for the contemporary fiber art community, has graciously provided a copy of their magazine for this week's winner.

For the week 1 giveaway, Clover is providing a full set of Amour Crochet Hooks. These are the exact same sets that we use in our studio! Trust us, you're going to want them for your own.

What good are the hooks without something to crochet up? Valley Yarns has provided 3 skeins of their fabulously soft and squishy Mount Holyoke Yarn. It's 100% Cashmere folks! CASHMERE! *swoon*

Not bad for a Week 1 Giveaway eh? We're thrilled to have all of these A-MAY-ZING gifts to pass along to you.

How To Enter

Entering the giveaway could not be easier. Just click on the button below, or go to shibaguyzdesignz.com/craftmonth and fill out the form. This coming Sunday, March 11, we will choose and announce the winner. Then come back to the blog again on Monday, March 12, to see what the next week's give away is all about. You don't need to re-enter for any of the following weeks... you'll already be entered.

Click Here To Enter To Win the Week 1 Craft Month Giveaway

Good luck for this week and all the weeks to follow!

Stitch On!
S&J
the Shibaguyz

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6 Comments

sue

3/8/2018 09:54:33 am

Super giveaway, Thanks! Steven Willette makes some amazing tools!

Carrie L Inman

3/8/2018 01:34:34 pm

Hello,
It was so nice to meet you two. You sign a book for me, thank you. I was there on the 1st day of craziness. There were so many people surrounding you, and you took the time to talk to me. I want to congratulate you both on all the blood sweat and tears I know you put into the making of your book. You should be extremely proud of the accomplishments you have done so far. Thank you for expanding the art of the crochet/knitting/and the fiber community. I haven't looked at my new USBs yet, but I have looked a bit at the book. You both are amazing. I can't wait to see the knitting book you had said was in the works.
I have been spinning, crocheting, knitting and all kinds of other creating projects for years. I have a project for every mood, no really. I have just started the knitting and crochet again. It is so calming to me. You two are a wonderful brightness in the darkness I have been going through.
Again Thank You for bringing that excitement back to me. Good luck to you both.
God Bless
Carrie L Inman
Seattle WA

Ginny Brennan

3/8/2018 05:58:16 pm

Amazing giveaway!! Thank you for a chance to win.

Brenda Pokorny

3/9/2018 09:35:40 am

This book is AWESOME!!!!!! I pre-ordered it last August and it arrived 2 days before my birthday this March(Yay) You guys have out done yourselves. You have included some much more in this book that I have ever seen published before. (And I have many books). If someone was to buy a book about Crocheting this is the only book that they will ever need. I'll see you guys in a couple of weeks at Stitches United so I can get mine signed :)

Kathleen Champ

3/27/2018 11:51:29 am

Hello Gents, I've just learned of you from MARLY's podcast on YouTube. I WANT you say CONGRATULATIONS! I don't wet can even imagine the sleepless nights and covering every lil detail..each one is vital. I can't wait to see how all the things I'm desperate for in one place. Easy to access and ultimately..giggle easy to use. I'm a lil OCD when it comes to details..wanting things to work right, you know, work smart not hard! It's shocking to me..that's another conversion..Lol Anyway, I've the hardest time trying to get the info I need not only accurate but complete. Possibly more importantly, the diagrams ! I'd posted a question..are there and a few minutes later Marly popped open the book and my heart did a giant leap in my chest. Crochet has been a major source of regeneration in my journey back after a brain injury. I couldn't remember how to do a sc. Even after watching a video and ding the stitch for five minutes..ploof! It was??? But with prayer, faith, and continual persistence brain are regenerating at a great speed! But it's a daily necessity. Due to financial constraints yarn and other tools aren't always easy to come by. My point In saying this is to bring up the fact.n when you find yourself struggling..the struggle is OH! WAS VERY REAL, in that needing a reference book to put your hands in to pull back what a stitch is, how it's done, why in didoi it that way and needing a visual aid(DIAGRAMS) TO PULL IT ALL TOGETHER well, I'll just say add there's much anxiety and hands thrown in the air as if to give up until the next trip to the store.Not, just tried another day :-) The funny part is always looking through the same material..just in case something changed haha. Alas it's here! You've gone and done it. I know my comment is more like a novel at this point. However,I wasn't y'all to understand. There are far more people y'all are going to impact with this book then you might have even realized. There are people with limited abilities due to health, injury, or educational limits or abilities..and let's face it lots of figs just get hammered in a vortex of What In The Workd?? Lol when it comes to reading patterns. Lots of folks are visual learners. So on behalf of all of us different needs people..THANK YOU!
I'M SO EXCITED FOR EVERYONE that has a different reason to want or need this long awaited gift ! Keep up the great work. BUT ALWAYS TAKE TIME FOR YOU!
SincereLY, from a grateful heart..
Kathleen <3

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3/31/2018 11:43:56 am

Heya Kathleen - Thank you so much for letting us know how you feel about our new book, Complete Crochet Course. We put years of our life into making sure this book served the greater crochet community and moved crochet forward overall. We love hearing how folks like you are impacted by our work and look forward to seeing how you use your new skillz!

STITCH ON!!
S&J