Chappy very much wanted to help with the Millennial contest–even though he doesn’t post (very often), he still gets all warm and fuzzy when he thinks about my blog . . . although, he’s warm and fuzzy to begin with you, understand, but still . . . I named it for him, so he has a special appreciation for it.

So . . . I told him he could be the judge. There were 50 comments on the contest post (51, technically, but one was a duplicate). I wrote the numbers on slips of paper, and then–since I did say it was possible that "Extra points may be accorded to comments that are particularly flattering while still sounding marginally sincere," I gave the extra-nice (aka sucking-up) comments two chances to win.

He was so attached to the winner that I had to literally drag it out of his mouth . . . and then I barely got to see the number before he grabbed it back . . . Um, you’ll have to take my word on this because he kind of  . . . ate the winning slip.

So . . . the winner of this skein of yarn, handspun by yours truly . . .

You know, the approximately 360 yards of superwash, silk, and nylon from Franquemont Fibers in "Flame" . . .

The fiber that I ordered in June after lusting after her luxury batts for months before finally succumbing to the temptati . . .

. . . Oh, all right!

The winner is

Kristi the Fiber Fool!

Of course, she’s such an incredible spinner herself, my handspun will probably want to crawl back into the mailbox, but . . . she’s the winner Chappy picked. So, Kristi, please email me your address!

(And, I know, I would have thought he’d go for one of those "We love Chappy" comments, too, but who can figure out the way dogs think? I guess he was just trying to be impartial . . . besides, Chappy loves everybody.)

Thank you all for playing and making our landmark so much fun!

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