Monday, December 30, 2013

The Nice List (Giveaway Winners)!

It's been a hectic holiday week, but today we paused to finally draw two winners for our sock yarn giveaway and show off our holiday prezzies.

Dragon and Milkshake were our impartial name pullers, since we do things analog here at Trample Herd HQ.  Our winners, who most definitely were on the nice list this year, are...


In their Christmas scarves.


Lisette and T Sedai Hoosiermama*

(* T.Sedai had meant to leave a comment, and not to enter, so I re-drew for a new winner.)

Ladies, please email me your deets at Clio(dot)Phineas(at)gmail(dot)com and I will get two balls of navy Stroll sock yarn off to each of you asap.

Speaking of the nice list, there was much celebrating on Christmas day when Dragon, Milkshake and the Tramples awoke to find that Santa had indeed come and left them each a new knit scarf. Nothing is more exciting to knit critters than more knits. 



Tramples with scarves that match their ear frills.

I must have been on the super nice list this year, since I received a load of goodies including drape drape, Pattern Magic, a June Tailor pressing board and this...



... a tower of Belding Corticelli silk thread. (See here if you don't know why I'm so psyched about this.)

I also received some excellent cookbooks, including Melt: The Art of Macaroni and Cheese. Yes, it is a cookbook entirely devoted to one thing: the pursuit of mac + cheese.  So, I think another round of my search for the perfect mac and cheese recipe will be taking off in the next week or two. For those of you new to it, here is the most recent version.  Stay tuned!

6 comments:

Clio said...

OMG - I am going to buy that book right now. Seriously. How have I never heard of this!

Clio said...

Ooh! We should swap some Mac N Cheese sometime! We've developed our own favorite version, involving really good cheese ravioli instead of noodles.

Clio said...

Oh yes please keep us updated about the mac and cheese! My hubby is going to try your no kneed bread too!

Clio said...

I hope the bread works out! Definitely I will be documenting my mac+cheese experiments, you know, for posterity and the greater good... ;-)

Clio said...

omnomnom! That sounds awesome! My mom used to do a baked ravioli when I was a kid, but I haven't thought of it in years! Please do share.

Clio said...

My thoughts exactly!