I thought I'd spice up the middle of the week with a yarn contest. This is my first contest, so forgive me if I'm not doing this quite the right way. I wanted to make this a little more quirky. So I thought about a little informal research into one of the most divise habits people have - coffee drinkers versus tea drinkers. I'm curious what knitters lean towards? Yes, there are lots of useless thoughts rattling around in my brain. Just humour me.
So, here goes. I'm giving away a beautiful lace yarn in beige colours, hand-dyed by a local Vancouver Island woman, Judy Maclean. It's called Island Hues, 100% Merino wool lace weight.
It's the yarn on the right in the below picture.
I'm currently knitting YarnHarlot's Snowdrop Shawl in the blue yarn on the left and it is exquisite.
So, just leave your preference, coffee or tea in the comments (and if you have any funny coffee/tea stories or preferences do share), and I will draw a winner at random on July 4. You have a week to enter.
Comments (25)
Earl grey tea!
:)
Posted by Caren | June 27, 2007 11:58 AM
Posted on June 27, 2007 11:58
I drink tea in winter (3/4 of the year) and coffee in summer.
Posted by Marcela | June 27, 2007 12:04 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 12:04
I like Coffee, in particular ice coffee. One of aunts used to own a coffee farm and i got to visit it when i was younger.
Posted by dao | June 27, 2007 12:05 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 12:05
soo i left a comment and had a typo on the email! this one is right..lol soo delete this one when you read it!
Posted by Dao | June 27, 2007 12:10 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 12:10
I've been drinking coffee since first grade (my mom didn't know any better). No wonder I never wanted to go to bed at night!
Posted by kim | June 27, 2007 2:01 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 14:01
Coffee all the way for me!
Posted by Sue J. | June 27, 2007 2:08 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 14:08
I'm from Seattle - coffee it is!
Posted by tiennie | June 27, 2007 2:41 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 14:41
Both! =)
Coffee in the morning and tea at night.
Posted by keri | June 27, 2007 4:19 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 16:19
Okay, here is my entry. I am a tea drinker. I do not drink coffee at all. My favorite tea is Green Tea. We also have a jar of sun tea brewing nearly every day during the summer. My husband, on the other hand, drinks coffee only. I have seen him drink tea only once or twice since we have been together and that was only because he ran out of coffee.
Posted by Kathleen | June 27, 2007 4:52 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 16:52
I am a coffee person. Well, actually, I don't drink a lot of either one, but I like to meet my friends for coffee, so I guess that makes me a coffee person. :)
Posted by Jen | June 27, 2007 5:15 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 17:15
Tea for sure. Chai tea is my very favorite. Coffee smells good but it tastes VILE so I never developed the habit.
Posted by becky c. | June 27, 2007 6:47 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 18:47
Well it depends. If we're talking about a hot drink. It's coffee all the way. No sugar. No milk. Just straight and strong. I don't want anything to dilute the caffeine. My husband makes a 12 cup pot every morning and has ONE cup. I finish the rest.
If we're talking about a cold drink, it's tea, iced, preferably Lipton. No lemon, no sugar. Just straight and tea-y.
I don't drink iced coffee and I hate hot tea.
So does that make me a coffee person or a tea person? Either way, I'm definitely a caffeine person.
Posted by twig | June 27, 2007 7:08 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 19:08
Yup, both for me, too, although coffee is a must-have in the mornings and tea is a leisure item.
I've been in Arizona for 2 years and am totally dying for a Timmy's Iced Cap! Thankfully, we fly home for vacation tomorrow and there's a Tim's at the airport in Ottawa!
Posted by Miri | June 27, 2007 8:25 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 20:25
I don't usually join contests but this one is really unique & interesting & so I must have a go. I drink coffee (with lots of milk) in the morning & chai tea after dinner. When I was pregnant, I couldn't stand the smell & taste of coffee & this always happen when I am in a plane! Thanks for organising this.
Posted by Ann | June 27, 2007 10:14 PM
Posted on June 27, 2007 22:14
I'm a coffee drinker all the way! I have a cute story about my husband and coffee, which he also loves to drink. When he was a toddler, in the mornings when he woke up, he would walk in the kitchen and pitifully as for "wooofffeeee". His mom would make him coffee in his bottle, a mixture of milk, a little sugar, and a tiny bit of coffee. He now blames this for being 6' instead of 6'3" like his brother.
Posted by Bea | June 28, 2007 8:59 AM
Posted on June 28, 2007 08:59
I drink coffee in the morning and afternoon - but drink herb tea at night. Currently I'm on a red tea thing...as long as its decaf, I'll drink it!
Posted by Jeanne | June 28, 2007 9:26 AM
Posted on June 28, 2007 09:26
coffee black.
Iced in the summer, hot in the winter.
No sugar --but some sweetener in the ice coffee.
(once in a while, a bit of Mahattan Special (sweetened carbonated (soda) expresso.
i grew up with tea drinking irish parents, and i can't stand black (pekoe) tea.
oolong is drinkable (bearly) green is the best of the lot, (and it still taste medicinal to me!)
I like water too, (NYC has great water--and i drink lots of it!)
Posted by Helen (of troy) | June 28, 2007 11:50 AM
Posted on June 28, 2007 11:50
I had to chime in because I'm not really a drinker of either but if I had to choose, it'd be tea..there's two that I like-ginger tea and calm which is a zen tea.
Posted by rhoda | June 28, 2007 11:51 AM
Posted on June 28, 2007 11:51
I like a good cup of coffee now and then, but I'm more of a tea drinker. I'm not at all a fan of instant coffee, and I find tea much easier to prepare just one cup of, so unless there are other people who want coffee I'll have tea. I drink black and green teas and a wide variety of herbal infusions, so tea gives me more variety too.
Posted by Nicole | June 28, 2007 12:19 PM
Posted on June 28, 2007 12:19
I drink coffee and mostly during the week at work. I drink it non stop until lunch time. On the weekends I have one each morning from Dunkin Donuts. I usually only drink tea if I have an upset stomach.
I bet that was way more information than you wanted to know!
Posted by Karen | June 28, 2007 2:23 PM
Posted on June 28, 2007 14:23
Ahhhh! Daily DOSES of coffee for me!:)
Posted by leslie | June 28, 2007 10:00 PM
Posted on June 28, 2007 22:00
Congratulations on your cabin. You must be so excited!
Tea for me. My family has always had tea together when we visit. Nothing fancy, just regular strong caffeinated tea. I love Earl Grey especially.
Posted by Debby | June 29, 2007 5:53 AM
Posted on June 29, 2007 05:53
Tea definitely. I can't stand the way coffee smells. But tea, oh yum :-)
Posted by Ariel | June 29, 2007 6:49 AM
Posted on June 29, 2007 06:49
I'm a tea drinker - and being from "the South" its Iced & "hurt your fillings" sweet!
Posted by April Smith | June 29, 2007 12:42 PM
Posted on June 29, 2007 12:42
Yay for contests! But I can't decide - I'm as addicted to tea as I am to coffee! A day without coffee? Can't imagine that. There are a couple of days in my life that I spend without tea, so it seems I'm more of a coffee nut at least ;)
Posted by Dipsy D. | July 1, 2007 5:47 AM
Posted on July 1, 2007 05:47