Giveaway Love: Hoopla

We have an extra-special giveaway today thanks to the good people who brought you Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery. Hoopla, by Leanne Prain, is a sizeable embroidery book, full of inspiration, anecdotes, history, projects, and interviews. Inside you'll find an interview with Jenny Hart, embroidery entrepeneur (and a guest blogger on Feeling Stitchy), as well as tons of interviews with well known people in the blogosphere, and many artists who may be new to you.

Did I mention that one of Feeling Stitchy's contributors took part in this book? Jo created these adorably geeky microbe hankies:


Gotta love that cheeky guy modeling the hanky, by the way. He works an embroidered hanky like nobody's business. :)

I thought I'd give you a sneak peek of the book today, and you know what? Leave a comment and you could win your own copy (the publishers already sent me this one, thank you very much).  :)



I'm also giving away all the cute loot they sent me: 2 mini gocco print hoops (jackalope, and fly, respectively), and 6 hilariously cheeky buttons. That means you have 9 chances to win something! That doesn't happen every day, folks. At least, not for me. :)




So, here's a brief tour, starting with the title page:

(don't mind my flags - I marked all the cool stuff I wanted to share with you today)

Here's a lovely Cate Anevski pattern:


I love this modern cuckoo clock blackwork pattern:


This cross-stitch applique bull pattern is quite nice as well:


I love the dainty stitched chapter heading pages:


And, in honor of Valentine's Day, I stitched up this oxytocin embroidery - it was a very quick stitch, easy and fun:


I'd say Hoopla is definitely worth a read - there's a huge variety of patterns and styles represented. I do wish the patterns were larger - maybe having all the patterns in the back of the book would have been a good move. For this reason, some of the project patterns seem more like inspiration drawings rather than actual templates, but there's certainly a wonderful assortment of projects in the book.

So, you wanna win, folks? Leave a comment here by 9 PM, U.S. Central Time on Sunday, Feb. 12 - in your comment please tell us 1) where in the world you are from, 2) your favorite project (of the ones pictured here) and 3) your email address, so I can contact the winner!

Edit: 9 PM - comments closed! Winners to be announced on Monday, Feb. 13th!