Contest “The New Generation Knitter”: the votes are open!

Today is the 14th December, and the casting of the participations for the “New Generation Knitter” contest closed last night at midnight. You were 22 in total to compete for one of the 10 prizes available. The applications come from France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, the USA and Canada. Out of the 22 candidates, 21 are women and we have 1 man ;-)

Below are the different participations, in the order I received them in my mail box.

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1. Renata's participation, on her blog Un amore di tricot...
LANGUAGE : Italian
TYPE : text

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2. Titsev's participation, on her blog Titsev etc...
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text

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3. roxane62's participation, on her blog Tricot Rock - Chez Roxane.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text + photo

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4. camounjazz's participation, on her blog Dans ma boîte à Malices...
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text + photo

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5. Kitty4Cat's participation, on her blog A touch of... Kitty.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : poem

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6. Emma's participation, on her blog Aroundthehook.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text

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7. mamounette64's participation, on her blog un-peu-de-laine-et-deux-aiguilles.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text

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8. Dreiss's participation, on her blog Tricotin de Dreiss.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text + photos

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9. Antonella's participation (no blog).
LANGUAGE : English
TYPE : picture

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10. mayalili0601's participation, on her blog Les créas de Laetitia.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text + photo

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11. trikoala's participation, on her blog TriKoala.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : comic strip 

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12. Donna Galletta's participation (no blog).
LANGUAGE : English
TYPE : text + photos
"I just had an interesting "new generation" knitting/crocheting experience.. let me start by saying that I have been knitting and crocheting all of my life, I learned from my Italian grandmother when I was but 5 or 6 years old! So I am old generation .. that has become new generation ! I moved from the United states to Italy 22 years ago with my husband and children and last year my daughter moved back to the states..
I had promised to make her a maxi cardigan and so... I started the project (crochet).. it was important to exchange ideas with her as the project progressed and so... enter Facebook... where I posted pictures of the project at various stages to get input from my daughter.. but I ended up getting input from many of my FB friends! Then there was the problem of getting the coat from Italy to my daughter in Pennsylvania, USA without worrying about high shipping costs, it getting lost in the mail, etc... enter my wonderful cousin on facebook.. who informed me that she was coming to Italy for a vacation and would be happy to take the "gift" back with her and get it to my daughter! And so.. when the coat of many colours was finished, I posted the picture of the coat of many colours on Facebook... and told my daughter that it was on its way!
Naturally, as soon as my cousin reached her home with the coat she posted a message on facebook to assure me that it had arrived safely and in the final chapter of this "new generation knitting" story... she used facebook to invite my daughter to her home for dinner and to pick up the coat... now all that is missing is a picture of my daughter wearing the coat!"

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13. Elotine's participation (no blog).
TYPE : photo

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14. junior_goddess's participation, on her blog The knitting Channel.
LANGUAGE : English
TYPE : text + photo

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15. Michelle's participation, on her blog Fée au Foyer.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text + photos

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16. melinawitch's participation, on her blog melinawitch's faërie.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : drawing

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17. JuliaA's participation, on her blog juliaas.wordpress.com.
LANGUAGE : English
TYPE : text + photos

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18. lalinelalaine's participation, on her blog laline la laine.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text + photos

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19. Elénia's participation, on her blog Le petit monde d'Eléni@.
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : song lyrics

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20. Somsack's participation (no blog).
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : photo

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21. S.G.Woman's participation, on her blog En attendant, je vis donc je suis...
LANGUAGE : French
TYPE : text + photo

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22. Eilinor's participation, on her blog Fili del passato.
LANGUAGE : Italian
TYPE : text + photos

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Everyone would deserve to win, but as 10 need to be chosen, go on, vote! I would like to remind you that the Internet users votes account for 50% of the final decision. VOTE FOR ONE CANDIDATE ONLY PER DAY (The votes will be checked). VOTES WITH NO EMAIL ADDRESS WILL NOT BE VALID. To keep track of the evolution of the votes, check  “Mélusine tricote…”’s Facebook page. Good luck to all!

Translation : Aurélia Reymond-Laruinaz.