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Jun 15 '09 by Threadless

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Holy sugar high! Threadcakes 2009 contest!

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!

everything on Jun 15 '09 at 10:30am

*preheats oven*

almozline on Jun 15 '09 at 10:31am

The fun never stops here, does it?

WarDrobeInSpareOom on Jun 15 '09 at 10:33am

YAY!

ivejustquitsmoking on Jun 15 '09 at 10:36am

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

disillusioned on Jun 15 '09 at 10:36am

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!

[+duracell-] on Jun 15 '09 at 10:39am

haha im so doing this

andyg on Jun 15 '09 at 10:42am

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

ir0cko on Jun 15 '09 at 12:15pm

mmm cake!

jeffreyg on Jun 15 '09 at 12:16pm

time to whip this baby out

jess4002 on Jun 15 '09 at 12:20pm

yay!

TheInfamousBaka on Jun 15 '09 at 12:22pm

This is so amazing. I wish I could cook.

Blake B on Jun 15 '09 at 12:29pm

can we do 2?

Blake B on Jun 15 '09 at 12:30pm

i mean in the same categories?, because I really really have two shirts that I think would make awesome cakes

boysbeambitious on Jun 15 '09 at 12:30pm

YES
I want to try!

nikolina100 on Jun 15 '09 at 12:37pm

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

Blake B on Jun 15 '09 at 12:38pm

also does the confirmation url not work for anyone else?

Steve The Great on Jun 15 '09 at 12:40pm

oh snap!

staffell on Jun 15 '09 at 12:42pm

blimey, this is serious!

Hanne_L on Jun 15 '09 at 1:09pm

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

Hitoi on Jun 15 '09 at 1:29pm

Ditto on the confirmation url not working.

chelly on Jun 15 '09 at 1:36pm

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

chelly on Jun 15 '09 at 1:46pm

my confirmation didn't work
and then the email bounced back

i'm guessing i'm not the only one

chelly on Jun 15 '09 at 1:47pm

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

Hitoi on Jun 15 '09 at 2:00pm

Success!

Hanne_L on Jun 15 '09 at 2:02pm

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

Recycledwax on Jun 15 '09 at 2:20pm

awesome!!

disillusioned on Jun 15 '09 at 3:49pm

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!

notasausage on Jun 15 '09 at 3:56pm

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

disillusioned on Jun 15 '09 at 4:00pm

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. :-)

Krimson on Jun 15 '09 at 4:01pm

I call Licking the spoon!

YtFeLMi on Jun 15 '09 at 4:13pm

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.

karunaii on Jun 15 '09 at 4:15pm

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

disillusioned on Jun 15 '09 at 4:17pm

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!

disillusioned on Jun 15 '09 at 4:22pm

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

Hanne_L on Jun 15 '09 at 5:02pm

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

mype4nut on Jun 15 '09 at 5:03pm

The cakewrecks girl is judging? haha loves it.

bhoomika on Jun 15 '09 at 5:20pm

I am excited !!!!!!!

disillusioned on Jun 15 '09 at 6:19pm

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

RebeccaAdele on Jun 15 '09 at 7:50pm

Yay! Another excuse to make a cake!

Andreas Mohacsy on Jun 15 '09 at 8:17pm

haha awesome:)

Rambunkcious on Jun 15 '09 at 8:47pm

yay! Im totally baking a threadcake this year!

jennyflame on Jun 15 '09 at 8:50pm

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

valorandvellum on Jun 15 '09 at 11:07pm

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

Quell on Jun 16 '09 at 12:12am

Whoooo.

disillusioned on Jun 16 '09 at 1:24am

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!

inbalzubalsky on Jun 16 '09 at 2:23am

this is so much fun!

disillusioned on Jun 16 '09 at 3:13pm

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!

zuesfaber on Jun 17 '09 at 3:49pm

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

disillusioned on Jun 17 '09 at 4:24pm

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!

disillusioned on Jun 18 '09 at 5:17am

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!

YtFeLMi on Jun 19 '09 at 12:35pm

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

disillusioned on Jun 19 '09 at 2:27pm

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!

NomDePlumB on Jun 19 '09 at 3:27pm

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

disillusioned on Jun 20 '09 at 3:07pm

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!

valorandvellum on Jun 20 '09 at 3:50pm

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

klsmit31 on Jun 20 '09 at 4:08pm

woohoo!

disillusioned on Jun 20 '09 at 4:34pm

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

valorandvellum on Jun 21 '09 at 5:05pm

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

valorandvellum on Jun 21 '09 at 5:08pm

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?

disillusioned on Jun 22 '09 at 5:58am

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!

greenttentacle on Jun 23 '09 at 3:58am

ooh exciting! can internats play?

[+duracell-] on Jun 23 '09 at 5:32pm

check your emails disillusioned

ratkiss on Jun 23 '09 at 5:34pm

Oh man!

Someone come bake an epic cake with me!

wzzee on Jun 24 '09 at 2:55am

wzzee on Jun 24 '09 at 2:56am

nice

wzzee on Jun 24 '09 at 2:56am

holy moly

dhenderl on Jun 24 '09 at 11:02am

I can haz cake?

Rambunkcious on Jun 24 '09 at 12:48pm

I cant decide on a design!

kevinwells on Jun 24 '09 at 1:44pm

Krimson on Jun 15 '09 at 4:01pm
I call Licking the spoon!

I call Licking the kevin!

wait.... *licks self*

mmmm

a wild thing on Jun 24 '09 at 3:08pm

sooooooo excited!!!
check out the blog on my cake! threadcake

valorandvellum on Jun 24 '09 at 8:21pm

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?

disillusioned on Jun 25 '09 at 12:23am

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!

disillusioned on Jun 25 '09 at 1:13am

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

5 days later

disillusioned on Jun 30 '09 at 4:12pm

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

deboraborialis on Jun 30 '09 at 4:18pm

Sweet Jebus! I'd better get thinking!

boysbeambitious on Jun 30 '09 at 7:01pm

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

shimala on Jul 02 '09 at 12:25am

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

WarDrobeInSpareOom on Jul 02 '09 at 12:28am

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

xiv on Jul 02 '09 at 12:40am

holy crap some of those are incredibly well done.

disillusioned on Jul 02 '09 at 2:03am

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.

5 days later

jenraskopf on Jul 07 '09 at 6:13pm

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

7 days later

CharlesFesta on Jul 15 '09 at 10:16am

over 200 cakes!!!

pyr4lis on Jul 15 '09 at 2:47pm

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

disillusioned on Jul 15 '09 at 5:35pm

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

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