That’s it.

The contest to win 6 beautiful ergonomic hooks
– 4 Tulip Etimo Rose hooks 
– 2 Prym Soft hooks
is now officially over ! Let’s see which photo won…

To enter the contest, all was needed was to share a picture of your swatch(es) crocheted following an Episode of the DC project, to explore all the variants of my favorite crochet stitch, the Double Crochet !
But first, let’s have a look at all the swatches entered in the contest, and feedback from the crocheters who made them:

PHOTOS 1 & 2
Anne Linage followed à©pisodes 1 and 3 to crochet her swatches
– dc in both loops, dc in the front loop and dc in the back loop
– dc in both loops, dc in the 3rd loop, front post and back post dc:
She said “J’aime beaucoup le rendu de la troisià¨me partie tout en haut.” (= I really like the look of the dc in the front loop)
“Pas trà¨s fan des gros reliefs, ce que je prà©fà¨re c’est la deuxià¨me partie en partant du bas” (= Not a huge fan of the relief stitches, the one I prefer is the dc in the 3rd loop)

PHOTOS 3 to 6
Confituralamure followed every single episode of the dc project, and made a looong swatch showing each series !
– dc in both loops, dc in the front loop and dc in the back loop
– dc in both loops, dc in the 3rd loop, front post and back post dc
– dc in between stitches, linked dc, extended dc
– crocheted cables
She wrote about the whole experience on her (french) blog, and basically even though she’s a designer herself it seems she was shocked by the difference many of those variants made:

“Premier choc, comme une cruche, je m’attendais à  un rà©sultat identique sur les brides brin avant et brin arrià¨re. Que nenni ! (..)
Deuxià¨me choc, je n’avais jamais pensà© à  piquer dans ce que Sylvie appelle le 3à¨me brin, le petit brin sous les 2 v. C’est pas super facile à  faire au dà©but, mais à§a donne un chouette effet, comme une lisià¨re de mailles coulà©es. A essayer et à  utiliser en dà©co.
Troisià¨me choc, un peu comme pour la bride piquà©e dans le brin avant ou brin arrià¨re, je pensais que la bride relief avant ou relief arrià¨re allaient me donner le màªme rà©sultat, ben non. Enfin si, la diffà©rence est moindre que pour le brin avant brin arrià¨re, mais on voit clairement une diffà©rence, au moins de taille. Surprenant. Du coup, je suis perplexe pour l’emploi des brides en relief sur les carrà©s granny par exemple. La symà©trie n’est pas heu… symà©trique !
Quatrià¨me choc, la bride lià©e. Mais qu’est ce donc que cette bàªte là  ??? Ben c’est nouveau, à§a vient d’sortir. Enfin, certainement pas pour tout le monde, mais pour moi, si. Et le rà©sultat est jouli jouli !! Je m’en reservirai, c’est sà»r et certo.”

PHOTO 7
Kims Colorway tried the dc in both loops, dc in the front loop and in the back loop with episode 1.
” Very interesting! I never thought of that before! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.” 

PHOTO 8
Marie Juglair followed episode 6 for her swatch: she crocheted the dc in both loops, linked dc, dc in between stitches and extended dc.
“J’aime bien la bride lià©e qui donne un effet bien serrà© et qui permet de ne pas doubler si on fait une pochette (car je ne maà®trise pas bien la couture…)”
= I like the linked dc which has a tight look and allows to skip the lining if making a bag (as I don’t master sewing very well)

PHOTO 9
Sandrine Campana crocheted dc in both loops, dc in the front loop and dc in the back loop following episode 1 of the DC project.

And now… Bam !
I entered the data in the “Random number generator” and:

The winner is photo 8: Marie Juglair. Bravo !!
(please send me your adress and I’ll send the crochet hooks)