{"id":579,"date":"2010-03-24T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T23:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2010-03-24T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T23:02:51","slug":"hump-day-we-have-a-winner-and-i-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Hump day, We have a winner, and I need your help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wow, there&#8217;s a lot going on in the title, and that&#8217;s because there&#8217;s a lot going on here as well. First of all, happy hump day to everybody. Hey Helen, do you know where that term came from (or anyone else)? Wednesdays are a fun day of the week aren&#8217;t they? I guess that may be why they call it hump day?! Anyway, I wanted to get some information in here before i get on with the contest, because i know you&#8217;ll just want to check out the answers and run. So, you might have noticed that I added a new page to the blog &#8211; FEEDBACK. It&#8217;s just a page with a few (4) questions that I&#8217;d love for you to take a few seconds and answer for me. I&#8217;ll change the questions weekly, but aside from the comments, it&#8217;s the best way for me to get a feel for who the heck you are. That enables me to put up posts more relevant to what you guys want. I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong. I started this blog to blab about knitting and this isn&#8217;t a democracy, but I&#8217;d like to know if there&#8217;s anything special you&#8217;d like to read about or find out about. Keith, the jogless jog is coming up soon, promise. So I&#8217;ll look at the answers to the polls and if it happens that I can cover a topic that a lot of you want to read about, or if I&#8217;m undecided what to post next and the answers sway me in a particular direction, then it&#8217;ll be worth it. I promise to never have more that 5 questions and you&#8217;ll be able to answer them easily. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, there were 350+ visits to the blog yesterday ( a new high) which isn&#8217;t a whole bunch to some, but considering that there has been little to no advertisement, I&#8217;m thrilled. Keep telling your friends I&#8217;m here if you like it. It also meant that there was a lot of competition for the crossword that I put up. Needless to say, I&#8217;m already working on another one for a future contest to give away something else from the 52 in 52. It also tells me that it wasn&#8217;t that difficult after all &#8211; or was it. Please leave a comment and let me know what you thought of it. So I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winner &#8211; Chester Lagmay! Well done Chester. He sent in the completed puzzle at 11:48 AM yesterday (March 23rd). As per the contest rules, I will send Chester the scarf. There&#8217;s still a few weeks left that he may be able to use it, and if not, he can keep it for next winter. Now I have gotten a comment about clue #27. The answer is &#8220;QUIVIUT&#8221; &#8211; at least that&#8217;s how I spelled it in the puzzle. I may have been incorrect as according to Wikipedia and the store that has a website by the same name, the proper spelling should have been &#8220;QIVIUT&#8221;. Unfortunately because of where it appeared in the puzzle, this may have caused difficulties for some. So before I post the solution, I will allow anyone that has the puzzle completed to send it in with the &#8220;QUIVIUT&#8221; spelling. I will send all correct entries with that spelling something special, but Chester will still get the scarf. I&#8217;m counting on the honor system here, so\u00a0 please let me know if this error prevented you from completing the puzzle. Chester, please send me an e-mail with your shipping address so I can get the scarf to you right away. I&#8217;ll post the solution tomorrow and allow everybody else to try and finish it. E-mail the solution and you will get an honorable mention on here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hugzzz \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, there&#8217;s a lot going on in the title, and that&#8217;s because there&#8217;s a lot going on here as well. First of all, happy hump day to everybody. Hey Helen, do you know where that term came from (or anyone else)? Wednesdays are a fun day of the week aren&#8217;t they? 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