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Regional Summer Contest Update # 4

As of approximately noon PDT, here are the totals:

Team Ohio: 120

Team Godzilla: 133

Team Dust Devils: 217

Team New England/Chowdaheads: 118

The contest has really tightened -- kudos to both Godzilla and NE/Chowdaheads for your work over the past couple of weeks!!!

You all have approximately 1 week and 12 hours before the contest closes.

Happy Crafting and please Tag :))

Regional Summer Contest Update # 3

Happy August everyone!

First, I want to let Robyn know that I have added her (I think you live in Omaha) to Team Godzilla. Only one of your posts was tagged for the summer contest, so please let me know if you want your others to be counted.

And now the tally ....

Team Ohio: 86

Team Godzilla: 38

Team New England: 49

Team Dust Devils: 149

There is just about a month left. The contest will close at midnight Pacific time on Labor Day!

Regional Summer Contest Update # 2

Wow! Some serious crafting has gone on in the last month! I am on vacation, so I am not being as detailed as the previous update. Here are the team totals:

Team Ohio: 75 

Team  Godzilla: 16

Team New England: 40

Team Dust Devils: 95

Way to go, y'all! I hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July :)

Regional Summer Contest Week 1 Update

Here is the update for the first week of competition:

Team Ohio:
12 items!!! This total comes from 1 mobius posted by Jorie and 11 beautiful items posted by Sandy!

Team Godzilla (a.k.a Team North):
**15 items! This total comes from one crochet/knit quilt from Snoopingmother and 2 quilted Afghans by Zortified!

Team New England:
**13 items!! This comes from 8 items + 1 Afghan from Ascelline :)


**For clarification, knit/crochet/individually quilted Afgans are counted as 5 items because of the time/labor that it takes to make just one. Correspondingly, quilted Afghans with donated squares are counted as 4 items for the same reason. The point is not to penalize individuals/teams for choosing to make more time consuming/labor intensive items. Obviously, an afghan takes more time than a scarf or square!

PLEASE READ!!
People have been posting items without the Personal Achievement tags. If you do not tag your posts, then the items will not be counted! I have to be a stickler about this because there are members NOT participating and I do not have the time to personally ask and/or assume which members are or are not participating. Please go back and tag any posts from May 1 forward if you want those items to count!!!

It's Go Time!

The Regional Summer Contest is on!

I look forward to the thrill of victory and agony of defeat (cue the ABC sports theme)!

Per Jorie's post, please tag all your entries and remember that Personal Achievement Items will only be counted if tagged, and that all your items are eligible whether part of a contest/drive or not as long as they go to charity!

Have a great day everyone and happy crafting!

Reminders from the Reminder Store

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all having pleasant, introspective, extroverted holiday weekends. Here where I live, we've actually had three glorious weather days in a row, so everyone is in a little bit of shock. Hopefully the weather will continue in this mode and our shock will wear off :)

So, yes. Reminders and updates and what-not.

Regional Summer Contest starts tomorrow. Remember, any items you post can count towards the regional contest as well as the Personal Achievement Contest . Jezebel will count items in a fair fashion, so making 2,000 crocheted bookworms, while wonderful, won't necessarily earn your team 2,000 points :) If you want me to create tags for your respective teams, just let me know. In the meantime, tag your entries "regional summer contest" or some such.

Personal Achievement Contest continues until December, so make sure, if you are playing, that you tag your entries appropriately. You are competing for some glorious knitting (or crocheting) gift baskets.

Preemie hat contest run by Robyn is going till June 1, although I've asked if she could extend the deadline a bit. Send all preemie hats to her and you could win a $50 Amazon gift card!

Local HMPCWD Drive: I'm still collecting stuff for the local women's shelter in honor of my uncle for my dad's birthday. I did a lot of hand washing this weekend and am almost all caught up! I'll be accepting things probably up to June 10....let me know if/when you send stuff if it's already been washed and blocked, because at this point, if I don't have to wash it.......I won't :)

Afghans for Angels goal is going to be extended until July 1. Although you all did a marvelous job this month and our count is 14 afghans thus far (or 11 if Ninja says we absolutely should not count her three), 50 was a pretty ridiculous goal for me to set, in retrospect. So, we will have another whole month to get to that big 50. Then it will be too hot to even look at blankets :)

I would like to point out to everyone that we are already at 1,480 items or so, which is awesomely close to our halfway marker of 2,000 items. Now that is cause for joy during this somber holiday. Y'all rock. Let me just say it again!

Teams and Tag Reminders!

Yup, I have done it. I decided to base the teams based on climate and region :) I have given each team a temporary name, so please feel free to vote and change! Also, recruit friends to join to help your team!

Remember: This contest runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Also, Tag your entries so that you items will be counted.

Happy knitting y'all! The teams are below:



Team New England:
ascelinne - Rhode Island
knittingforever - Rhode Island
sen_ich_rei - Mass.

Team North
snoopingmother - Mich.
zortified - Nor Cal
typo_13 - Canada
kindergoth - Korea/Colorado

Team Ohio
Joriejc2
doclegs
leftygirl02
aehallh
sandy

Team South
megaminokoton - Okla.
crazigriffen - Texas
eowyn_ulysses - Tenn.
ninjasezzy - Ariz.


PLEASE READ: The personal achievement contest started on May 1, 2008. So far only a few posts have been tagged. I know some of you did not want to participate, so please know that I will only count posts that have tags! I will continue to post reminders, but just know that if it is not tagged, then it is not counted!

Reminder!

Hey all,

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for signing up for the "regional summer" contest. Right now we're not exactly sure if it's going to work out because most of the people that signed up are from the same place -- Ohio!

So, you non-Ohioans, sign up and fight for your region :)

It's May Day!

So it is May 1, which mean the celebration of May Day. Ahhh .... the memories of running around the Maypole with my pretty ribbon...

Alas, I am sure that most in this group are celebrating a fabulous April competition as well as the start of the Personal Achievement Contest! I look forward to tallying all your efforts over the next six months (I may need to create an excel spread sheet if you all are as proficient as I think you may be). Also, I am getting excited because two of my local, funky, fabulous yarn stores are about to have their stash buster sales, so I will be posting pics of prize yarn soon!!

A few reminders:

1. TAG your entries. I really need help with this because I will quite literally be tabulating everything everyone of you make from this site as well as the blogspot site. If you don't tag, then you run the risk of having your work not count toward your final tally.

2. Preemie sets will count as 1 item, blankets as five, and other items as one.

3. Please do not take advantage of # 2. For example, I am a baker. I have a particularly sinful cookie recipe that literally makes 100 cookies/batch. However, each cookie is small. Therefore, I would count 10-12 cookies as one item (depending on how many fit into the gift bag). I certainly would not bake 100 cookies and then expect to be counted for 100 items. Thus, Joriejc2 and I will step-in and adjust the numbers if we feel that someone is making mini-projects in order to inflate the total. If you have any concerns, please feel free to voice them :)

4. Remember that we have our Regional Summer Contest that will run from Memorial Day to Labor day. If you are crafting this summer, help out a team! So far, Ohio may need to be its own team. Is that state known for its crafting?? You may post here if you have not done so and I will "regionalize" you :) Deadline is May 4, 2008 or this Sunday for those without a calendar handy.

5. Lastly, items for these contests are not charity specific. i.e. craft for WUA, HMPCWD, Afghans for Angels, or a local charity of your choosing. As long as it is for charity, the items will count!

That's all for now .... I am off to play on excel in anticipation of incoming items!