A Giveaway!

This month, Mr. Micawber's Recipe for Happiness is celebrating its first anniversary. A year's worth of cycling, crochet, poetry, cooking (and of course eating) - with a bit of cleaning and what-have-you whimsy thrown in - has been inflicted upon a longsuffering Blogland; and Blogland has responded with grace and generosity.

To mark this auspicious occasion, and show my gratitude to all who read this blog, I am holding a crochet-and-chocolate-themed giveaway.

There will be 2 lucky winners. One will receive this lovely book:

Edited by Robyn Chachula, Simply Crochet is full of patterns for beautiful garments, accessories, and more, all designed to be made from only 1 - 5 skeins of yarn.

You can see all of the patterns available in Simply Crochet by clicking here. (This will take you to the Ravelry sign-in screen. Sign in, and you'll be taken straight to the pattern page for the book.)

The other winner will receive this book, equally lovely (with guaranteed appeal for all you motif-makers out there):

More than a hundred wonderful motifs, and ideas for using them, can be found in this handily spiral-bound tome.

(You can see all the motifs here on the Ravelry book page - click on these words, then sign in, to be taken straight to the book page.)

To enter, simply leave a comment below telling me what you like to crochet, and which book you'd like to win, and your name will be placed in the drawing for that book.

A note to entrants: I do need to be able to contact you in case your name is drawn. If you're commenting as "Name/URL", or "Anonymous", please include an e-mail address in your comment. If you'd rather not do that, please leave your name in the comment and send me an e-mail through my profile page. That way I can be sure to include you in the drawing.

This giveaway is international, and will remain open until midnight of March 31st, U.S. Central Daylight Time. The 2 winners will be drawn (or randomly generated) on Monday, April 2nd.

But wait! I almost forgot the second half of the giveaway. (What was I thinking?)

To sweeten the deal, each winner will also receive a bar of fine Green & Black's chocolate:

Warm and spicy...

...or cool and minty.

Chocolate and crochet. Life doesn't get much better than that.

Good luck. And happy St. Patrick's Day!

Had to work in my St. Paddy's Day
mini-quilt somehow. : )

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