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You can still enter our active giveaways.
Win a copy of Phil Davison‘s Twisted Stitches!
See the book review.
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To enter, comment on this post before 11:59 p.m. (Central USA time) August 8.
The book for this giveaway was donated by North Light Books.
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193 Comments so far
i’d ? to win this
x-stitching one of my many hobbies and to be honest you had me at the humpty dumpty fall lol i like weird morbid x-stitchs as ppl think that they are always flowers or scenes lol
Cheers
I have just started embroidering again and this book looks like it would be the best inspiration to keep going!!
I would love to win! Thanks for the nice giveaway!
This book should provide some great inspirational ideas for needlework projects.
Saw this book at the bookstore. Really cute.
Hmmm. I know just the person who would like me to stitch them something slightly rude!
wow this sounds great. would love to try out.
I love to stitch and am very twisted, so this would be right up my alley. Thanks!
This book looks fantastic!!! Would love to win it!
Twisted embroidery?!?!? How awesome, this is totally on my crafting list!
I would love love love to win this book!
I’d love to win this. I’m always looking for new cross-stitch designs.
I’d love to win this. It says “twisted” just like I am.
I would love to win this book too. I’ve been thinking about starting to embroidery.
Whoa…I *need* this!
I’d love this book for my grandchildren love when I make them twisted stitches.
Such a great idea for a book!!
I may have found my new hobby…can you imagine the look on my mother’s face as she opens her gift from me…an apron with that pig on it?! Ah, yes, mes amis, truly priceless. How does one bribe the great and powerful random number generator? With cakes? Cookies? Wine?
Crossing appendages and waiting anxiously for Sunday….Cheers!
always looking to expand embroidery in different directions. great book! thanks for the chance.
That’s just too cute!
My dad needs stuff with these designs stitched on.
Thanks for the giveaway! Just one more reason this site and you all are AWESOME!!
This book looks so neat! Can’t wait to do all the projects in this book!
I so love this book, it’s been on my things to buy list-great to have a chance to win it now ^_~
want!!
Thanks for the giveaway, this looks like it would be a hoot!
This book would be too awesome to win. I have always had a twisted / warped sense of humor and it shows in most everything I do. What do you expect from a trauma nurse/quilter. Would love to try the projects in this book. Tired of the sweetsie projects.
Looks nice.
It’s an awesome book. Very unique!
Thanks for the giveaway.
This book looks AWESOME! Thanks for the great giveaway! Right up my alley this book is
I absolutely adore this book. Looks like a fun time, I would love to win it!! Congratulations on being newly published!!
Great review! It makes me more interested since they were actually thinking of we stitchers when they made the book.
Twisted embroidery…. just the perfect way to get my daughter started on her way to hand embroidery and cross stitch!! I am very excited about this book! thank you for the giveaway. You folks are wonderful!
Wow, awesome!
Oh, yeah. This is a perfect gift for my mom.
This looks fun to me. I may be not as young as some of these hip young embroiders, but I do not like frumpy embroidery. Thanks!
This book looks awesome!! I would love to have it.
Awesome! This book looks like a GREAT addition for my twisted sense of humor! Thank you for the opportunity to enter the giveaway!
oh yeah! Fantastic!
Totally twisted, totally me!
Cheers, Tammie
This is so great! I love the twisted humor of these designs.
Love it!
Awesome!
Oh what fun book. Would be delighted to give it a new home. Thanks for another great give-away!
Love this!! I love quirky stitching. The author of this book had done a WONDERFUL thing! LOL.
Looks like a very fun book. I’d love to check it out!
I’d love to win this book – I need more projects for the computer room and I’m flat broke!
I’d love to win this, the book looks amazing!
Wonderful giveaway.
I think this book sounds fantastic! I would love to give some of the patterns a try.
Because I’m a little twisted, this is the PERFECT book for me…plus, I LOVE to stitch! My fingers are crossed in hopes to win!!!
I’d love to win this book. I have friends that MUST HAVE those i-phone cases…
I would love to win this book.
I love this book! It’d be great to get some new ideas for my embroidery!
Ooh, that looks amazing! I’m constantly on the look-out for new stitching projects to make for my boyfriend ^_^
This looks great! I’m always on the lookout for fun new projects ^_^
This looks like it might be fun. My husband has that twisted sense of humor. I haven’t cross stitched in a few years, but do machine embroidery. Urban Threads pointed me over here, which I like their unique take on embroidery so I think this is cool too.
That looks awesome! I need some fresh ideas
Aw fun, thanks for the chance to win!
Oh yes please!!!!!
ooo, yes please! I’d love to win this book.
Happy Birthday Denise!
Of COURSE I need this book! Humpty Dumpty after the fall is a must-stitch for me!
hugs!
I’ve been emboidering for a little while and haven’t gotten to the cross stitch yet. Maybe this would be a good way to start!
Too fun!! I’m definitely twisted, and my threads usually are also, so this would be perfect for me!
Awesome! Thank you for the chance to win.
I would love to win this book. I’m always looking for new ways to be creative.
How cool! I would love this book!
I would love to have this book! Who knew that cross stitch and embroidery could be so modern and fun! These are patterns i could embroidery for my younger crowd of friends. Goodbye Grandma’s Ducks!
Fingers crossed and thank you for the chance!
Awesome looking book! Thank you for the giveaway!
The book looks amazing. And that BBQ apron Rocks! Thank you for the giveaway. =]
Oooooh, this would be an awesome Birthday pressie!!
This book looks great! I hope I win it.
This just looks so awesome! I really hope I win. ^_^
what a wonderful book!!! please count me in on this contest!
thanks!
Wow, this is super awesome! Thanks for the opportunity!
ZOMG. I would LOVE this… with a lot of people being lucky recipients of gifts! Here’s hoping, and thanks for the shot at it!
Oh, I would LOVE to win this
I have put it on my wish list to buy if I don’t win 
It would be awesome to win this.book. Please
Oh wow! I just looked at this book at B&N this weekend. I was so tempted to buy it because the patterns are great! My grandmother taught me to cross stitch when I was about 6 years old and this would be the perfect thing to get me back into it.
Sounds like fabulous ideas. Would love a book like this.
I started embroidering for the first time since home ec in high school, and it’s designs like these that keep me doing it!
this book looks awesome! i’d love to win it!!
That looks really cool!
Twisted fun. Hope I win.
I hope participans form Germany are welcome as well.
Would love to win the book.
Love,
~charly
I love stitching so this would be a great addition to my pattern books! thanks for the chance
Whoa!! I have been searching for design inspiration books for embroidery that isn’t for babyland or good for a hootenanny and this looks like just the ticket!
Am teaching myself and would love to get my hands on this book–I love seeing artists pushing the “normal” envelope right over the cliff. Hooray!
I do love anything twisted! It would be great to add this book in my collection. Thanks for being so giving on your birthday!
Would love to win this in time to make lots o’ Christmas presents for my twisted family members!!!
Aww, I just saw this at the bookstore but, didn’t have the money to buy it. I just love all the projects in it. just BRILLIANT
Just the book to fit my personality. ^_^ Looks like fun. I hope to be able to get a look at it.
I love this book and would love to win it!
Love this book! The designs look exactly what I would love to do. Although I wouldn’t share this book with Grandma
Probably not her cup of tea
Looks great! Enter me!
We will be traveling this winter and all the hype on stitching is making me itch to stitch again. Can’t take the quilt machine with me so this wonderful book can be my inspiration. Thanks
This looks like an awesome book. I’m keeping my finger crossed.
This book sounds like it would be “so fun” to use to stitch for folks like my son and his fiends. I love cross stitching and would get me started again.
Now this is my kind of stitchery.
Yay! A book that has man crafts in mind. My husband will be so pleased!
Love it! And bacon is reported to increase 150 percent this year!
I love to embroider, but so often the designs and patterns available are normal and benign. I prefer the twisted and abnormal and love the idea of this book.
Everyone needs something that is a little twisted in their lives. Since I love to do needlework, this looks like it is perfect for me. Thanks for the opportunity.
This looks absolutely fun! I’ve been getting ready to start learning to stitch and I would love to start with this!
this fits my craft urge and sense of humor perfectly!!
This looks great, I love that they didn’t segment the charts.
since I’ve decided that one can’t have too many crafty things to do, this book would fit right into my schedule. Besides it’s easier than cleaning my house.. Please pick me!! (I really don’t want to clean my house….really)
This book looks hilariously fun!
I’d kill to win, since I rarely ever am lucky enough to win anything at all.
Avid cross stitcher! I need some new patterns!
Wickedly cute, theere is so much fun to this book
I’d love to win this book, as I’m just beginning to learn how to embroider. Everything helps.
Too Cool!! would love to win one for my daughter.
Looks like an awesome book and one that quite fits in with the humour around here! I think that the Twisted Balloons picture is really clever; I like the way it looks like children playing on a pier, or a skull! Well done to the author and thanks for the chance to win a copy!
Awesome , just what I need . If I don`t win , will definately buy it .
Looks terrific! and Happy birthday!
Looks like a great alt book for the morbid side some of us have
Thanks
That’s twistedly adorable! I’d love to have it.
Looks like my kind of book
This book would be so much fun to win.
Twisted embroidery is my favorite kind!
That book looks like a must-have!
Thank you for the opportunity for this giveaway.
looks like a great book! great giveaway as well!
Love the idea of modern humorous embroidery designs.If i win hubby is gonna get the “pig eating humans apron”as he’s a big meat lover lol.
Wow! I’m a vegetarian and I love that apron! So glad someone somewhat twisted put this book together!
This looks a great book! I’d love to try it out.
lOVE IT !!! cANT WAIT TO GET STARTED
Love the idea of this book and can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.
Oh my gosh, I’d love to win this!
Oh, I think I need this
Sounds wonderfully bad..lol Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to get back to doing embroidery and this book sounds like just the ticket!
Thanks for the giveaway
This looks great, can’t wait to see it in person. Thx for the chance to win!
This would be great. My mom and I could have stitch wars!
Awesome book…I would love to win it!!
Please enter me… looks like a great book and a wonderful giveaway!
I would love to win! I already felt in love with the cover of the book! As a vegetarian would be great to make such apron!
And by the way: happy birthday to you!!!! ?
I’d love to win this book!
Thank goodness…not a twee bear with balloons to be seen!
Love it!
I love it! Not everything needlework has to be sweetness and light!
Thanks for the giveaway!!
Wow! Looks Great! I’d love to win this book.
Embroidery is just about my favorite thing, I would love to win this!
Kimberlee
I absolutely love the pig apron I wish I would have had one of those for my husband (cook of 40 years) I would still love to make one he would get such a laugh wearing that. love your stuff!!
Cute book!
Nice.
Looks like something I would like to try. I love the apron!
One can never have enough inspiration!
I have been cross stitching since the mid 80′s and keep coming back to it after trying many other crafts. I would like to stitch this book.
I have PAS – Pattern Acquisition Syndrome. I would love this book to add to my collection! And twisted is always better!
HAHA! This is an awesome give away. I would love to be able to have these patterns as we approach the Christmas crafting season.
Awesome giveaway
Would love to win this!
I have several books now with patterns that are rather odd so I would really like to add this to that collection. I would love to make that apron I am a chef.Thank North Light Book for the book and thank you for the giveaway.
I’ve had this on my Amazon wishlist for a while now…would love this book for some stitchy inspiration!
thanks so much for the chance!
thank you for the opportunity to winning this boook!
OMG! This is just what I need to “vent” out any “evil” thoughts that I may and may not have in my mind. LOL! LOVE the book cover as well, this might keep my boys hands off my books for once?
Thank You North Light Books for making this generous donation!
This sounds like a really awesome book! (Love the I (skull) humans apron… hilarious!)This would be a lovely addition to my library of books.
This would be perfect for gifts to all my family and friends since we are all “twisted” here ! Thanks for the chance to win such a cool book!
oooooooh. This would be so much fun. Finally a reason to pick up my cross stitch supplies again. Can’t wait for the book to be out.
Wow, so many people are trying out! I hope I stand a chance. Please choose me. Really would like to own this book (not even sure if it will be available in Malaysia)
I would love to win this to give to my mother. She does beautiful embroidery.
coveting this book so much right now…
A fantastic giveaway- I definitely want to check this book out!
No more pansies and lighthouses…I want zombies and vampires to cross stitch! This is just the “twisted” inspiration I need.
I would love to win this!!
I seriously need this book!
Wow!! I have never won any thing before, but there is always a first. I would love to have Twisted Stitches! Thank you for the opportunity!
this book looks like so much fun!!!
Please enter me–thanks.
Just looking at the cover makes me grin.
Twisted Stiches is the best idea! Halloween and the macabre are always dark fun
heh awesome giveaway, as always. I know my hubby will love this one.
This is one book I would love to win!
as a vegetarian, i need this book just for the pattern on the front!!
yes my sister would love this! thanks for the giveaway!
Love the book, so different!. Great giveaway!
I’ve been twisted my whole life and would love this book for my needlework! Thank you so much!
Definitely sounds like something my teenage-young adult children would appreciate as gifts. Thank you for the opportunity!
This book looks SO COOL! My local craft stores never have anything so innovative.
Really want to win!
Awesome. This looks like a must have book for creating fun little gifts and more. I LOVE IT!
I love to stitch – this would be lovely!
This looks like so much fun!
would love to have i do a lot of hand quilts thanks
Now this is one stitching book I’d really like to get into!
Thanks for the opportunity to win it.
these are the cutest!!! would love to win
My passion is cross stitching! I’d love to have this book.
I would love to win, Thanks for the chance
i would love this book
this looks awesome!
This book fits my personality perfectly…!
Love it!
Ha! Looks great.
I need another craft book like a hole in the head but this one looks cute and funny. I’d love to win it:-)
Please, count me in! I’d love this book!