And the winners are...

Everyone! This month was absolutely amazing and I am so proud of all of you!!! The cheering on of each other yet keeping a healthy competition going was awesome. I hope that can continue with the coming contests.

Of course, speaking of competition, there was a hard-fought crafting battle. Here are your final points:

Afghans for Angels: 85

WUA: 72

Caron: 66

Chemo Caps: 48

HMPCWD: 46

Afghans for Afghans: 12

Congratulations, Afghans for Angels team! You guys ended up making 17 blankets between two people, which is beyond incredible!!

So, as promised, we as a group will make a total of 50 blankets (which means 50 blankets, not 10 at 5 points each) for Afghans for Angels in May.

Doclegs and or Leftygirl, please advise us on where to send these, size specifications, etc.

And remember, with May Day comes our Personal Achievement Competition...starting...........

NOW!!! :)

Reminder!

The winner of the April Contest will be posted before I go to work tomorrow (which means around 7 AM EST. Post your last items by then!

Tomorrow begins the personal achievement contest, which will last for the next few months. Don't forget to start tagging your posts so Jezebelsf can keep track of your doings! :)

Final Batch Perhaps

Three more going towards team Afghans for Angels. Will be doing my best to finish what I can, but this may be it.

Just one more day!

Just one more day to get your items counted for the April teams contest! Here is the count:

Afghans for Angels: 70

Caron: 66

WUA: 58

Chemo Caps: 48

HMPCWD: 39

Afghans for Afghans: 12

And don't forget to sign up for the two new contests that were introduced over the weekend!! The Personal Achievement Contest starts on Thursday!!

Time is ticking ticking ticking

Well our illustrious Caron Square Team has by necessity reached their end-game, so let's give a contest update and see where we are. Only four more days left to finish up!!

Afghans for Angels:70

Caron Square Contest: 59

Chemo Caps: 45

HMPCWD: 39

WUA: 26

Afghans for Afghans: 3

Afghans for Angels Blankets

Am having trouble posting at LiveJournal, so hopefully this works. At the start of the week I began feeling some soreness in my wrist, so decided to back off my knitting projects.

I was really bummed about not being able to make anything, until I read about how to make no sew blankets and gave it a try. They were fairly simple to make; each took several hours though, because I'm slow. :P

My first attempt. It's about 20 inches by 22 inches in size.

My second attempt. This one is 12 by 12 inches.

Loved this frog and duck fabric when I first saw it. The back side is yellow. The blanket measures about 22 by 22 inches.

Catching Up

It dawned on me that I failed to post these pictures here on Blogger as well as over at Livejournal. So please don't count these twice; am just catching up. Blankets for Team Afghans for Angels.

Updates updates

First, another contest update!

Afghans for Angels: 55
Caron: 54
Chemo Caps: 40
HMPCWD: 39***
WUA: 26
Afghans for Afghans: 3

***I am a dumb-bell and cannot count tally marks. HMPWCD does not have 40 as previously reported. 39 is the right number. Yikes.

Next, I'd like to give more information regarding my little local HMPCWD drive. Here is my dream:

I'd like to have outfits packed together in little see-through bags or plastic wrap so that residents of the shelter can be given a nicely protected, new, handmade set of items (be it hat, scarf, mittens or some other combo). I'd also pack blankets individually.

I'll probably wash everything and dry it before packing stuff cuz most of it would probably have been sitting around here for awhile. If you have cats please wash your stuff before sending it because I am very allergic. Otherwise, if it's pet dander free, don't worry!

I think I'm going to make the cut-off date June 1. That'll give me 2 weeks before my dad's b-day to get everything ready.

Thanks!

Well, we are just going to have to update again!

Given the amazing day that the Afghans for Angels team had today, I think we had better look at the standings now.

Afghans for Angels: 45
Caron Square Contest: 45
HMPCWD: 40
Chemo Caps: 40
Afghans for Afghans: 3

Goodness goodness goodness... ... ...

Contest Update!!

Boy oh boy. This thing is too close to call. It's all about the next week :)

Caron Square Contest: 45
Chemo Caps: 40
HMPCWD: 39
WUA: 26
Afghans for Angels: 25
Afghans for Afghans: 3

By the way, I hope everyone realizes that these numbers...these are just stuff you've all done this month.

That's pretty darned impressive, folks. In case you were wondering :)

Simply Soft Squares

Here's my contribution to the April contest - 20 Simply Soft squares.
I will mail these (along with the 13 squares I made last month that have already been counted) to Robyn tomorrow morning.

(I know this isn't completely relevant to this group, but I thought some of you might be interested to know that I used 1,169 yards of Simply Soft making these squares!)

Also, I remembered that I never did post this hat and pair of mittens that I finished earlier this month. I actually finished them up because they are made of Simply Soft, and I wanted the remainders of each skein for squares.
So these 2 don't count towards the contest but do count toward our total. I will probably send these along for HMPCWD in June.

I also wanted to add that I really enjoyed the contest this month. Being on a team really helped keep me focused and motivated, especially knowing that my teammates were counting on me. Maybe could we do this again in the future?

Contest Update!!

Here we go folks...getting ready for a weekend of contest activity. Here's how our standings look.

How many people can we dress: 36

Chemo Caps: 30

Warm Up America: 26

Caron Square contest: 25

Afghans for Angels: 25

Afghans for Afghans: 3

Now, I don't want to say, motivate you guys any further, but let me say this...I have items to post for HMPCWD. Oh yes.

Just sayin. :)

Also, got an update from Afghans for Afghans today. They are looking for rectangular shawls for new mothers. They'll probably be collecting till July they think. They want non-airy designs but yarn that's light enough the women could wear it on their heads.

Check out the AforA site for more info.

Woohoo!

We are almost at 1200 items and it's the middle of April. We are on track for hitting 2,000 way ahead of our goal. You all rock!!!

Contest change

Well, it seems that the latest contest update has taken the air out of some folks' balloons. Yes, our sweet ninja did suggest that we just count each outfit instead of each item, but I honestly didn't think that was fair to her since, ya know...mittens and socks and hats and such are usually counted separately. Of course, I didn't think she'd whip together a post of 60 items either. Me silly :)

Anyway, because ninja volunteered to do this, I'm going to adjust back the HMPCWD numbers.

The new total for HMPCWD is 26, which means the contest numbers look like this:


Chemo Caps: 27
HMPCWD: 26
Afghans for Angels: 25
Caron Square Contest: 18
Afghans for Afghans: 3
WUA: 0

There :)

Thank you, Ninja, for being so thoughtful! :)

it's been a great week in contest-land!

Wowzers. You are all so incredible.Stepping aside from the contest and all of that, I would like to point to our year-long tally so far.

You all have donated and made 1,060 items already!!!! I am just floored. *sigh* Weepy.

So now back to the competition stuff, which is just going to be a photo finish I think. Are you ready?

How Many People Can We Dress: 78
Chemo Caps: 27
Afghans for Angels: 25
Caron Square Contest: 18
Afghans for Afghans: 3
WUA: 0

We are just to the half-way point of April, so anything could happen, and I bet it will. I have the sense that you square people are just going to explode all at once. Cuz square people...they're devious like that :)

Great work, everyone. Sincerely.

Contest Update!

Hey everyone!

Here are the contest standings now! It's a tight race still! Keep it up :)


Caron Square Contest Group: 18
How Many People Can We Dress: 18
Chemo Caps: 16
Afghans for Angels: 15
Warm Up America: 0
Afghans for Afghans:0

Contest Question

This has come up a few times...do items count if you had them done but were waiting to post?

Here is my decision, and I hope everyone is okay with it.

If you started items within 2 weeks before the contest started and you finish them in April, they will count. Obviously this is an honor code but I think that's pretty reasonable...I myself am still working on a scarf that I started about a week and a half ago...

Hope that is okay with everyone. If not, let me know :)

Contest Update

Well, my tally job has been pretty easy so far :)

Here is a contest update for your perusal:

HMPCWD: 0

Chemo Caps: 2

Warm Up America: 0

Caron Contest: 0

Afghans for Angels: 15

Afghans for Afghans: 0
Tags:

Start Your Engines!

So last night ended the time when you could choose your team for April. Today, we start counting things -- and the team for Afghan Angels already has three items!

So here is how the teams are looking:

How many people can we dress?

This can encapsulate my local drive or items can still go to San Fran for distribution to other places.

On this team are:

ninjasezzy
lindsoriah
joriejc2 (me..hehee :))

Warm Up America

These squares can be made out of anything and will be sent to crazigriffen for sewing purposes (or straight to WUA)

This team is represented by:

aehallh
eliseamelie
zoegodstar
littleanomaly

Caron Square Contest

We now know that all of these squares have to be made out of Caron Super Soft. These will get sent to Robyn. Because this still won't be going on in a month, if the contest wins, Robyn will get to choose which charity she would like us to pledge items to...she's done a great job trying to run this thing for us :)

On this team:

Robyn
Priscilla
ascelinne
snoopingmother

Chemo Caps

As a couple of people pointed out, they signed up for chemo caps in order to send them to twizzittles. No one signed up for that charity I think because of the confusion, so Chemo Caps peeps, you can send to twizittles or head huggers and they will count :) If anyone wants to send something other than chemo caps to twizzittles, we'll count that as the start of a new team (this would be stuff like scarves, jewelry, etc)

On this team are:

Typo13
Zort
Twizzittles
Knittingforever

Afghans for Angels

We have two folks on this team and they know that each blanket counts for five items for contest purposes only. Like I said, they already have three for the contest! Yikes!

On this team are:

Doclegs
leftygirl02

And finally, but not least:

Afghans for Afghans

These items need to be made of I think *at least* 80% wool, maybe more. On this team are:

crazigriffen
eowyn_ulysses

So there we have it...please tag your entries this month as April Contest, Charity your items are for to help me keep track.

Remember, this is just a fun way to inspire extra crafting. I don't foresee anyone getting mean, but if it happens, the contest is over IMMEDIATELY.

The charity with the most items on May 4 will get a pledge from our entire group to make 50 items for that charity in May.

GO!!!! (and have fun) :)

Idea for April

Hey everybody,

Alright, I apologize for my April Fool's prank...nothing, in fact, could be further from the proof (although getting 4,000 items done by 6/1 would TOTALLY rock!). Hehee :)

Ehem.

Now then, I have an idea for April.

You know how sometimes celebrities will go on game shows and will play for a charity of their choice? This idea is kind of based on that.

What I would like to do is set up teams who will all be making stuff for a certain charity (i.e. the Caron Square Contest, HMPCWD, Afghans for Afghans, whatever), and we'll have a race to see which charity gets the most stuff after a month. We as a group will pledge 50 items next month to the charity that wins.

What do you think?

Comment here with your charity of choice...I'll leave this open till Thursday night, and on Friday I'll post the various teams. My items won't be counted in the contest since I'm the mediator :)

In terms of numbers for April, we're shooting for 2,000 by the end of June, and right now we're just under 900. Why don't we try to get to 1200 by the end of April? Think we can do it?

Post here, all ye who dare :)