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!

Memorial Day

Hey all,

Although Memorial Day weekend is often a blissful long weekend away from work or school and a time for picnics and family reunions, it can also be a time for reflection.

I was thinking that perhaps we could put together an online knit-along of some sort Friday night or Saturday night... I have no idea how it would work or anything, but it might be a neat way to make people aware of the group and get ravelers to know bloggers to know ljers to know facebookers.

This would also be a great time to work on bags for Operation Bag O' Home, our sister project which involves sending bags stuffed with little needed items to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Right now the project has kind of slowed down, but I think between now and Labor Day would a great time to get it a shot of adrenaline.

What do you think?

four baby/preemie hats

four baby/preemie hats
Originally uploaded by craftyone77

these four are to start off my "personal" list for the contest. i know, a bit late, but better than nothing!

these will go to the local hospital in june, after the contest i'm running over at my personal blog (craftandfound.blogspot.com) is up. i haven't gotten as many preemie/baby hats as i thought i would, and with the prize being a $50 amazon gift card i thought there'd be more. ah, well. if any of you want to enter, there's still a few weeks (contest ends june 1)

that's 4 for me!

A crazy idea

So I just watched the season finale of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (hello, bawling), and I got this funny idea...wouldn't it be neat if all of the houses could have a homemade "welcome home" afghan for the families too? I mean, it's great that they have all the cool machines from Sears and blah blah blah, but I'm sure the kinds of families that this show features used to have a lot of homemade heirlooms that are now gone for whatever reason.

Do you all think it would be worthwhile to see if if we could donate homemade stuff? We wouldn't ask to be named or whatever...

I was thinking this could extend to any Habitat for Humanity chapter in general, as well...wherever new homes are going up. Let me know your thoughts.

More to Clount

Slippers and blue baby hat were added to personal care items and fleece items (fleece items weren't hand made), and sent out day before yesterday to a shelter for Battered Women in Michigan, Caring House though the group, Crafters in the Attic.

First pair of slippers I've made; adapted Bev's pattern and used 2 rectangles that were in my mish mosh pile.

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