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Mammoth blog giveaway – knitting project bag/tote for woolly minded knitters.

eskimimi — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:44:29 +0000

Okay – it’s the first ever blog giveaway on Eskimimi Knits, run in kind conjunction with www.mrcloud.com.

Following on from the Woolly Mammoth T-shirt designed by Eskimimi for mrcloud.com, there is a new product which should excite those needle twirlers and hook-wranglers among us – Woolly Mammoth knitting project bags:

woolly mammoths had knitting needles for tusks and buttons for eyes. Strange, but true. (May not be true)

Made from 100% organic Fair Trade cotton and featuring the wolliest mammoth in history, with his knitting needle tusks, button eyes and wonderfully knitted cuddly body, he reminds us of the evolution of knitting as a way to keep us warm – far more fashionable than wearing an animal skin sarong (well, in most circles, anyway).

To celebrate this new product, www.mrcloud.com is giving away one tote bag as a prize on this blog, as well as offering readers 10% off items in the shop. This means both the project bag and woolly mammoth t-shirt can be purchased for the crazy price of just £9 each (plus shipping), using the code ‘eskimimi’ at checkout. This is a limited time offer.

To be in with a chance of winning this project bag, you can enter the giveaway by following these simple steps:

Leave a comment on this blog post (and be sure to fill in the email address, which will be kept private, otherwise I have no way to contact you if you win).

In your comment, let us know what item(s), apart from this furry friend, catch your eye on www.mrcloud.com.

Also in your comment, let us know what you think the cheerful woolly mammoth might be knitting, and why (this is for no reason in particular, I just thought it might be fun).

This competition is open for entries worldwide, as Mr Cloud ships globally, so get commenting and good luck.

10% off promotion is available for a limited time only. Use code ‘eskimimi’ at checkout.

Wool and water

eskimimi — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:53:38 +0000

Alice in Wonderland is probably my second favourite¹ book of all time, and definitely my most repeatedly read. I must have read it twice a year for a long stretch of my youth, so any new film adaptation is likely to at least pique my interest. Naturally a book so rich in imagery and so debated in its shades of meaning will introduce new ideas to all those that read it.

As someone who so enjoys knitting, the chapter Wool and Water threw up this idea for a new t-shirt:

Alice in Wonderland wool and water t-shirt from www.mrcloud.com

Alice wakes as if from a dream after all her adventures – and all of the characters, sheep included, are perhaps figments of her lucid imagination, but in this design it is the dreamer that is conceived from the mind, and needles, of her companion in the boat. Literally conceived of the sheep as wool from animal coat is spun and wound into balls and used to make a friend, at once of substance and yet imaginary. Details of this t-shirt show that Alice is in fact a knitted doll with buttons for eyes and yarn for hair. On the sheep’s knee sit the tools of his labour – his needles, and yarn spun from his wool.

This Alice in Wonderland t-shirt is available exclusively to ship worldwide from www.mrcloud.com, in pale blue, primrose and chocolate. Why not check out the knitting wooly Mammoth t-shirt, too, if you pop by.

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^{(1) The answer to the obvious question here is One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.}

Knitted woolly mammoth. Science and knitting in one T-shirt.

eskimimi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:19:45 +0000

What came first, the woolly or the mammoth? Did these magnificent prehistoric pachyderms evolve or were they created… by knitters? Here are two of my favourite things – knitting and natural history, in one T-shirt, designed by Eskimimi for Mr Cloud.

knitted woolly mammoth t-shirt from www.mrcloud.com

With knitting needles for tusks and a warm and cuddly knitted body, this mammoth really is woolly. In this t shirt the mammoth is caught at the moment of casting on a new project perhaps another mammoth in a previously unknown form of reproduction. Could this have been why these wonderful animals eventually died out – because they couldn’t knit new mammoths fast enough? Help to make sure that knitting never dies out again by making sure that we never forgot the fate of the woolly mammoths, and give fellow knitters and science nerds alike a smile for only £12.99, and available to ship worldwide from www.mrcloud.com

He's not just woolly, he's knitted. Oh, and he has buttons for eyes!