{"id":397,"date":"2012-12-17T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T22:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:32:38","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/12\/and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/people\/louisap\">Louisa<\/a> in Melbourne who has won a free membership in next year&#8217;s Sock Club!<\/p>\n<p>All members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/cookie-a-sock-club\">Cookie A Sock Club Ravelry group<\/a> who completed a pair of socks, knit up something in club yarn, or baked cookies and posted photos in the appropriate thread were entered into the drawing (one entry for each finished object). There were over 840 entries! The winner was chosen using the random number generator at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.random.org\">random.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_469\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/10\/and-the-winner-is\/louisap-nanaimo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-469\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-469\" class=\"size-full wp-image-469\" alt=\"Louisa's Prizewinning Nanaimos\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/louisap-nanaimo.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louisa&#8217;s Prizewinning Nanaimos<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations again to Louisa! She knit her Nanaimo socks for her brother-in-law and says they are a treasured gift.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been interesting sifting through the Ravelry group, taking another look at all the lovely socks and yummy cookies over the past year.\u00c2\u00a0Judging from the Ravelry tally, 2012&#8217;s most popular cookie was a tie between the Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing and the Flourless Fiery\u00c2\u00a0Fudge cookies. The sock that had the most FO&#8217;s posted to the Ravelry threads was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/nanaimo-socks\">Nanaimo<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/reykjavik-socks\">Reykjavik<\/a> coming in a close second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/club\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-470\" alt=\"club2013-banner-01\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/club2013-banner-01.jpg\" width=\"655\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/club2013-banner-01.jpg 728w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/club2013-banner-01-500x61.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are still spots available in next year&#8217;s club. I am looking forward to sharing another exciting year of new sock patterns and delicious cookies with you! <a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/club\/\">Get all the details and sign up for the club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also pleased to announce the November winner of the Shapes + Form Knitalong, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/people\/dangergus\">Gus<\/a> in California!<\/p>\n<p>Gus has been a prolific knitter-alonger (is that a word?). She finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/dangergus\/conic\">Conic<\/a> and has started in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/dangergus\/rotation\">Rotation<\/a>, with plans for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/pivot-2\">Pivot<\/a> in her future! She wins 5 skeins of Plucky Knitter Primo fingering and a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/sources\/landing-winged-knits-vol-1\">Landing<\/a> by Cecily Glowik MacDonald. Thanks for knitting along.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/12\/sf-kal-prize-winner-gus\/gus-prize\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-467\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"S+F KAL Prize\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gus-Prize-500x418.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gus&#8217;s Prize<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Louisa in Melbourne who has won a free membership in next year&#8217;s Sock Club! All members of the Cookie A Sock Club Ravelry group who completed a pair of socks, knit up something in club yarn, or baked cookies and posted photos in the appropriate thread were entered into the drawing (one entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-sock-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}