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Holy sugar high! Threadcakes 2009 contest!

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June 15, 2009

Ladies and gents, preheat your ovens! Threadcakes 2009 is here! Last year was great but we have a feeling this year the cake's gonna hit the pan like crazy. Just transform one of your favorite Threadless designs into a beautiful cake. Then send in the pics to threadcakes (check it out for more details). Lovesthreadless.com aka disillusioned is the mastermind behind this contest - we thank him for being so awesome and one of Threadless' biggest supporters (perhaps even our #1 fan? or is it you?).

The judges are impressive and will be a very tough crowd wethinks so bake your best. Check out the lineup:

Mary Alice from Ace of Cakes
Nicole from Baking Bites
Jen from Cake Wrecks
Louise from Cake Journal
Jennifer from Bake or Break

There are two categories - 2D and 3Dimensional. And tons of amazing booty to each category winner - including loads of baking amazingness from King Arthur Flour, fancy flours, Guittard Chocolate, as well as Threadless giveaways.

Good luck - you have 7 weeks starting...NOW!

80 Comments

author: everything
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 10:30:12

*preheats oven*

author: almozline
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 10:31:03

The fun never stops here, does it?

author: WarDrobeInSpareOom
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 10:33:27

YAY!

author: ivejustquitsmoking
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 10:36:10

we just need a pic? can international folks join in?

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 10:36:27

Excitement abounds, kids.

More details will appear magically on the site once I've had a chance to sleep, but you can register now and start your mixers!

Thanks to Threadless for rocking out the prizes, and to Charlie over there for coordinating everything with me. And thanks to everyone who loves the last contest so-very-dearly and made it such a big hit... I think this one might blow it away!

author: [+duracell-]
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 10:39:46

haha im so doing this

author: andyg
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 10:42:27

I'm going to try to convince my Mom to do this. Watch out, everybody!

author: ir0cko
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 12:15:12

mmm cake!

author: jess4002
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 12:20:39

yay!

author: TheInfamousBaka
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 12:22:43

This is so amazing. I wish I could cook.

author: boysbeambitious
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 12:30:52

YES

I want to try!

author: nikolina100
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 12:37:05

OMG!! OMG!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!

author: Steve The Great
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 12:40:25

oh snap!

author: staffell
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 12:42:25

blimey, this is serious!

author: Hanne_L
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 13:09:06

Oh my god those from last year were so good! I can't do that:p

author: Hitoi
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 13:29:36

Ditto on the confirmation url not working.

author: chelly
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 13:36:02

threadcakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

author: chelly
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 13:46:46

my confirmation didn't work

and then the email bounced back

i'm guessing i'm not the only one

author: chelly
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 13:47:33

ooooooooooh just copy paste the link to the end of the threadcakes page link

author: Hitoi
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 14:00:52

Success!

author: Hanne_L
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 14:02:18

Same question: can people from outside the US join too?

author: Recycledwax
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 14:20:31

awesome!!

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 15:49:42

Gah. Confirmation link fixed. It's been an insane weekend.

People from outside the US is a good question; I need to check to see what our prize providers are down with, with regard to shipping and such. You're more than welcome to enter, but I can't guarantee that every prize will make it your way. The GCs would definitely, though!

author: notasausage
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 15:56:35

I still want to eat one of the sheep from the Insomnia cake in last year's entries. Those little guys look delicious!

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 16:00:17

I know, I still can't believe they're totally food--the pics showed her with some toothpicks, but a closer inspection revealed she was just popped them into place and then pulling the picks out--she has another photo of her eating their adorable little selves completely.

I'm going to be revealing a LOT more on the site VERY soon. I just needed to sleep and had a hellish weekend with my real job. :-)

author: Krimson
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 16:01:54

I call Licking the spoon!

author: YtFeLMi
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 16:13:04

Oh Chris, you totally rock. Last year was fantastic.

I can't wait to get my baking mind flowing again! :D

This is going to be EPIC! Woo.

author: karunaii
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 16:15:45

mary alice? ace of cakes love! It's on.

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 16:17:22

YtFeLMi, if you were on Facebook or AIM, I would tell you the super secret possible top prize for 3D cakes that we haven't announced because I'm not 100% sure yet...

But you're not, so I won't.

Guys, if you're having trouble with activation still, just let me know. I will help you out; I'm so sorry there was a bug in the template that went out, but I was on like... 2 hours of sleep and worked all weekend. (Not on Threadcakes; that was just from 2am-8am this morning. :p)

Keep up the questions and comments!

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 16:22:24

Gah, just tracked down the activation issue. Working on it, but don't worry.

author: Hanne_L
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 17:02:20

Oh my disillusioned, you really have to go nighty night! Dream about all those yummy cakes heading your way ;)

author: mype4nut
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 17:03:07

The cakewrecks girl is judging? haha loves it.

author: bhoomika
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 17:20:38

I am excited !!!!!!!

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 18:19:32

Oh, I'm back awake now, trying to track down what I hacked apart last night that broke stuff. Grumble.

author: RebeccaAdele
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 19:50:02

Yay! Another excuse to make a cake!

author: Andreas Mohacsy
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 20:17:40

haha awesome:)

author: Rambunkcious
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 20:47:50

yay! Im totally baking a threadcake this year!

author: jennyflame
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 20:50:40

What if there is a sweet cake that needs to be a shirt!? lol

author: valorandvellum
date: on Jun 15, 2009
time: at 23:07:52

So exciting! I'm thinking about what designs I might want to do. Are we allowed to have multiple entries? Is there a limit?

author: Quell
date: on Jun 16, 2009
time: at 00:12:11

Whoooo.

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 16, 2009
time: at 01:24:01

No limit to the number of entries you can submit. Cake away.

Just make sure you take BUNCHES of pictures of the process and finished product!

author: inbalzubalsky
date: on Jun 16, 2009
time: at 02:23:26

this is so much fun!

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 16, 2009
time: at 15:13:53

The new gallery will be pretty cool, too, since it will let you see each entry and the design it's based off of.

Still checking on other prizes, and planning to tweak the rules, and add a few extra pages tonight.

Keep checking!

author: zuesfaber
date: on Jun 17, 2009
time: at 15:49:33

Can we use discontinued designs for inspiration or only current ones???

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 17, 2009
time: at 16:24:58

Discontinued designs are totally fine, so long as they were printed at some point.

There will be a list of ALL historic prints and you'll be picking from that dropdown.

ALSO: A new prize has been confirmed and will be announced later this week for the 3D category. It is rather amazing, and I'm really excited by it!

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 18, 2009
time: at 05:17:48

Oh man, I'm whipping up a completely new design that will no longer shame me the way current design does, which will hopefully be in place along with entry form on Monday.

Woo!

author: YtFeLMi
date: on Jun 19, 2009
time: at 12:35:29

disillusioned on Jun 17 '09 at 4:24pm

ALSO: A new prize has been confirmed and will be announced later this week for the 3D category. It is rather amazing, and I'm really excited by it!

Okay. Talk about exciting! This is going to blow everybody away! SERIOUSLY! :DDDD

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 19, 2009
time: at 14:27:29

Haha... shhh!!!

Monday, all will be made known.

Also, I'd love to encourage you guys to do cake parties. Have friends over and have them help you bake an awesome cake. It's really a lot of fun, and a lot of people did it last year.

Remember, the contest goes through August 3rd so that you have seven weekends to work on!

author: NomDePlumB
date: on Jun 19, 2009
time: at 15:27:17

Pat-Tee cakes inc. :) my two favorite things ... t-shirts and cakes. YUM.

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 20, 2009
time: at 15:07:51

Yum indeed. The new design is almost done and I'm really excited.

We're going to start pushing the #threadcakes tag on twitter a lot, trying to get some mass-exposure there...

Good things are afoot, including new prize announcements!

author: valorandvellum
date: on Jun 20, 2009
time: at 15:50:34

Baking my first cake as we speak and will hopefully be decorating it tomorrow! My first cake of the contest :-o

author: klsmit31
date: on Jun 20, 2009
time: at 16:08:31

woohoo!

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 20, 2009
time: at 16:34:52

Don't forget to take LOTS of pictures, including of the baking AND the eating!

author: valorandvellum
date: on Jun 21, 2009
time: at 17:05:08

I tried signing up for a Threadcakes account and it gave me an error :-(

author: valorandvellum
date: on Jun 21, 2009
time: at 17:08:13

There was an SQL error: Duplicate entry '' for key 2 - INSERT INTO `users` (`threadless_name`) VALUES ('valorandvellum')

I don't know what that means. Did I do it wrong?

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 22, 2009
time: at 05:58:19

Valor: There were some bugs while we were moving code over.

You should be able to sign up just fine now, but we're still not accepting uploads for another day or two. (Gotta get the image uploading stuff tested and ready.)

In the mean time, check out the fresh design and full prize list. It's pretty epic!

author: greenttentacle
date: on Jun 23, 2009
time: at 03:58:13

ooh exciting! can internats play?

author: [+duracell-]
date: on Jun 23, 2009
time: at 17:32:52

check your emails disillusioned

author: ratkiss
date: on Jun 23, 2009
time: at 17:34:47

Oh man!

Someone come bake an epic cake with me!

author: wzzee
date: on Jun 24, 2009
time: at 02:55:34

author: wzzee
date: on Jun 24, 2009
time: at 02:56:02

nice

author: wzzee
date: on Jun 24, 2009
time: at 02:56:19

holy moly

author: dhendy
date: on Jun 24, 2009
time: at 11:02:03

I can haz cake?

author: Rambunkcious
date: on Jun 24, 2009
time: at 12:48:34

I cant decide on a design!

author: kevinwells
date: on Jun 24, 2009
time: at 13:44:40

Krimson on Jun 15 '09 at 4:01pm

I call Licking the spoon!

I call Licking the kevin!

wait.... *licks self*

mmmm

author: a wild thing
date: on Jun 24, 2009
time: at 15:08:43

sooooooo excited!!!

check out the blog on my cake! threadcake

author: valorandvellum
date: on Jun 24, 2009
time: at 20:21:22

It still won't let me sign up :-( Looks like maybe there was a problem with the website field? Am I not supposed to put www?

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 25, 2009
time: at 00:23:01

Gah. Valor, what are you doing to me?!?

Keep off the website for now, mkay?

Also, email me directly if you still have troubles. I want to make sure you can enter!

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 25, 2009
time: at 01:13:24

Haha, "keep off the website for now" was supposed to read "don't put anything in the website field". Man, I'm tired.

author: disillusioned
date: on Jun 30, 2009
time: at 16:12:55

For those not in the know, we're accepting entries now!

author: deboraborialis
date: on Jun 30, 2009
time: at 16:18:02

Sweet Jebus! I'd better get thinking!

author: boysbeambitious
date: on Jun 30, 2009
time: at 19:01:23

entry #1 http://www.threadcakes.com/entries/view/42

author: shimala
date: on Jul 2, 2009
time: at 00:25:58

Unless I'm blind, why is there no link to http://www.threadcakes.com/gallery anywhere on the site?

author: WarDrobeInSpareOom
date: on Jul 2, 2009
time: at 00:28:43

I couldn't find it, either, but thank you for posting it!

author: xiv
date: on Jul 2, 2009
time: at 00:40:16

holy crap some of those are incredibly well done.

author: disillusioned
date: on Jul 2, 2009
time: at 02:03:46

Shimala--it wasn't live until just a few moments ago, officially. I was still tweaking it, so you were probably browsing just as I was updating things.

It's now live on the home page and the top nav.

author: jenraskopf
date: on Jul 7, 2009
time: at 18:13:13

Oh man! This is what happens when I wander off into the wilderness for 2 months.

author: CharlesFesta
date: on Jul 15, 2009
time: at 10:16:47

over 200 cakes!!!

author: pyr4lis
date: on Jul 15, 2009
time: at 14:47:01

This is such an awesome contest. I only wish it was held during cooler weather. The 100 degree heat and humidity keeps ruining my fondant and I can't get my icing to firm up properly

author: disillusioned
date: on Jul 15, 2009
time: at 17:35:43

Excitement abounds. Pyr4lis, that does suck. I'm in Arizona, where it's 110�+, but it's nicely air-conditioned.

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