Hello lovely readers, I hope you’re having a good day. Last week we had one of our legendary Fifth Friday Festival of Fabulousnesses (Fabulousnessii?) in which we had book reviews and competitions to win two books!

• Steampunk Softies by Sarah Skeate and Nicola Tedman
• Love Kills Slowly – 30 cross stitch patterns from Ed Hardy

Congratulations Sandy Roberts! You are the winnah of the Steampunk Softies book! Please email your address to mrx[at]mrxstitch.com and I’ll get the book posted out to you!

Congratulations Freddie Fraggles! You are the winnah of the Ed Hardy cross stitch book! Send me your deets (to mrx[at]mrxstitch.com) and the book’ll be on it’s way!

We also ran a competition over on Twitter with the lucky winner getting  a bag of shiny and metallic threads from the personal Mr X Stitch stash! All people had to do was use the hashtag #mrxstitch to win!

Mr Random Number Generator picked out @stitch_therapy for the win! Hurrah!

Thanks to everyone who took part! Look out for another FFFoF when we next have a Fifth Friday!

Last week we reviewed the groovy Zombie Felties book, and gave you all the chance to win the book by suggesting new topics for plush books. Thanks to everyone who answered, there were some really imaginative results!

We asked Mr Random Number Generator to choose the winner and he chose:

So congratulations to Andrea, who is now the proud (soon-to-be) owner of this great book,  and had  some great suggestions for plush projects!

Andrea, if you’d like to email me with your deets, I’ll get that book in the post to you! Congratulations!

Hi peoples!

In case you forgot, as well as the fantastic prizes that we gave away this week, we also had a special prize of a selection of light effects and satin threads for the comment that tickled us the most in the Bonanza week.

There have been many classic debates and decisions made over the years by a great many people, decisions that have shaped the lives of millions. And this decision was one of those. There was wailing. There was gnashing of teeth. There was blood, sweat and tears.

And finally we reached a decision. The winning comment is:

“Um, that’s not what I meant when I asked you to put a little dry rub on the meat.” O_O

Congrats to Kidmissile for that little gem! Email me with your details and I’ll send that little package of love out to you post haste!

Thanks to everyone who took part in the comments this week. Keep ‘em coming – if you make us laugh, who knows what will happen?*

*A little bit of wee might come out, but it will be worth it.

I loved the juxtaposition between the Too Cute Squirrel and the not so cute giveaway prize. Thanks to everyone who took part in the competition!

Mr Random Number Generator appears to have a good sense of humour as he picked the following comment:

Congrats to Bex – Send me an email with your details and I’ll get this Bad Mofo of a stitchery out to you ASAP!

The NSFW giveaway last week was arguably the funniest post we’ve had on this site. Thanks to everyone who commented and provided us with a fantastic array of foul language for future use. Beefranck and I are seriously considering turning some of the more eccentric phrases into cross stitch patterns, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted on that development.

However, with all good competitions there has to be a winner, and Mr Random Number Generator has done us the honours once again:

Congratulations Missy Ann, your foul mouth has won you a top prize from the super stitchy store that is Miso Funky! All you have to do is visit the shop, choose the sampler you want and then email me with the details and we’ll make it happen!

Congrats and thanks once again to everyone who expressed excellent expletives for our entertainment!

Mr Random Number Generator has given chosen comment number 71 as the lucky winner of the fantastic Subversive Cross Stitch gift pack. Congratulations Tanya!

If you can email me (mrx@mrxstitch.com) with your details (name, address etc.) I’ll make sure the package gets to you soon!

Thanks to everyone who commented; it was great to read about people’s relationship with stitching and it affirms the reasons why we all love the world of stitch. Terrific!

Congratulations to Fiberartsy, who is the lucky winner of the recycled cross stitch piece! Her comment was terrific, and used the word “juxtaposition” which always works for me.

I’ll be in touch with the lucky winner privately to arrange shipping.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest – for those of you that have sent me suggestions for future posts, I am working on the Stitch Hits compilation and will be in touch soon to get those to you. Don’t forget to keep those suggestions coming in!

And thanks to the posse of awesomeness that are the Emergency Pants crew for doing the announcement on their podcast last night!

Don’t forget that you can find out which lucky commenter on here has won the recycled cross-stitch piece by listening to the awesomeness that is the Emergency Pants podcast!
Once the news has been revealed, I shall contact the lucky winner via email to arrange the shipping details.
Best of luck to all of you!

Pic from Cake Wrecks!