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Ahoy mates! (Edit below!)

Me first self-run contest comes to a close today! We've had thirteen entries to the contest; fantastic work me hearties! I'll have the winner tonight or at the very most tomorrow afternoon (yer captain has quite a bit of homework to finish this holiday weekend). Amazing work, all of ye, and thank ye all for your participation and support!

An hour later and I've made me choice.
Congratulations, ~KatelynJayne, for yer winning Pac-Man entry! Yarrr! [link] I'll be sending ye a message with the details for yer prize.


Edit:
I feel like ye mates deserve a bit more explanation and praise for all yer hard work. It was not an easy choice, I recruited best mate =AdidaTiki and me first mate TJ into helping me decide the finals. I judged not just in effort, but bookmark finishing, artist description, and originality. All entries were fantastic, but yer mate ~KatelynJayne took the cake her no-pattern double-sided full-stitch bookmark. Her description was excited and it was a mutual decision between us three pirates to give her the prize. I hope ye all enjoyed me first contest!

I also went out of my way to see if there are pattern converters online ye mates could use. I'm adding one link fer ye to use at yer leisure: [link] this is the only free service I could find, the other links I found would convert but then ask ye to pay for the final pattern, were broken links, or otherwise not quite as well performing. This free version does a simplified version of what my program does, so I don't think it lessens the prize, but fer all ye hearties who'd like to take a try at it, do feel free! I'll be adding it to our link journal.

Thanks mates! [/End edit!]

Yer lovely pieces:
Monogram Book Mark [link] by ~Scienceandart
Monkey Bookmark [link] by ~cheekylittleprincess
Faye Valentine bookmark [link] by ~avatarswish
A Reader - Bookmark [link] by *jijikit
Panda Bookmark [link] by ~Devi-Tiger
Seahorse Bookmark [link] by *bittykitty
Golden Books [link] by *immortallies
Jacobean Bookmark - Cross stich [link] by ~MandiJ
contest entry bookmark [link] by ~Kay-Mika
Celtic Knot Bookmark [link] by *Joce-in-Stitches
Seal mermaid bookmark [link] by *digikijo
Pac-Man Bookmark [link] by ~KatelynJayne
Waves Bookmark [link] by *jijikit

The first (and only) place prize is a pattern conversion by meself. If ye be curious as to what that's like, you can see our last contest's prize here: [link] It also included the color list and a colorized symbol pattern, which I sent via email.

Perhaps next contest we could get more prizes together, for now I hope this is sufficient.

Until next time mates, fair winds!
*pinkythepink