We Have
We have squares!
We have a contest winner!
We have kids in school!
We have run out of time to submit photos for the Knitty 2008 Calendar Contest.
I'll take that in reverse order. I have to confess that I've been a bad sister. Early this year, if you remember, I was part of Margene's Twisted Knitters dye-spin-knit-along and dyed then spun yarn to knit the Argosy scarf from Knitty. This was to be a gift for my sister's birthday when she was here visiting during January. I did finish the scarf, took pictures, and loved it very very much, and had every intention of sending the scarf to her right away after it was finished. (has anyone noticed a pattern of me having issues with getting things SENT?) The problem was that I thought this would be an awesome thing to take pictures of for the Knitty 2008 Calendar Contest. So I told my sister this, and held on to the scarf a little longer because I didn't have a camera that would take photos at the quality level they needed for the calendar contest. In June I did get a new camera and it was great for the photo quality we needed. Now to dream up the perfect setting for the photos. I had it in my mind that I would take the photos at the park with the help of Lila Pearl and a certain piece of playground equipment. I did take the camera and Argosy scarf as well as Tigger sweater (also from Knitty) to the park one evening when I thought the light would be good. It's hard to make this seem believable in the middle of summer though. There are shirtless children running all around, Lila is wearing a sleeveless dress, every kid at the park wanted to be in the picture and climbing on THIS TOY when usually nobody cares about it, blah blah blah. Nobody wanted to cooperate except the blue dinosaur. I'm very unsatisfied with the pictures overall and I don't think they're calendar quality based on the great photos in the prior two calendars. My favorite one (first one below) was taken at the wrong orientation (needs to be 11" wide by 8.5" tall and this was taken the "tall way"). So here they are. The Argosy calendar pictures that won't be sent because I'm not happy with them at ALL. And today is the deadline. And I kinda need to send my sister her scarf before winter gets here. ha It's okay. I want to make another Argosy anyway. Or something else. Maybe next year it'll work out since I have the new camera now.
We have kids in school! Katie and Suzannah started school yesterday and Benny starts today. The two older are in high school and will have their own laptops (issued by the school) so yesterday morning was spent shopping for a g-router/wireless transmitter so they can use the internet at home without using THIS computer. Whew that will make life pretty nice to have two less users on this computer. I wish I had my own laptop sometimes because I don't like competing for the computer and having people saving stuff on here, blah blah blah. ha What a complainer I am. Soooooo.... here's Katie and Suzy on their first day of school. Benny was too fast for me this morning to get a picture.
And we're past August 15th now so we're probably past the biggest mail days for afghan squares! Yay! We're ready to move to a new stage of the project - the SORTING! Monday was a record breaking mail day and wow wow WOW. Y'all we got 415 squares in the mail on Monday. The mail carrier had to make a special trip to the church to deliver afgan mail before he could load up with the mail for his regular route!! There was a LOT of afghan mail on Monday!! :)
Monday's packages and boxes:
The passing of August 15th means we have a winner in the "guess the squares" contest! The contest was to guess the number of squares we would receive by August 15th. The total number of squares we received from early May through August 15th (including the mail on Aug 15) was 4198!!! I checked the contest post and it appears that Theresa from Eugene, Oregon guessed.... well.... she guessed in a somewhat funny way but I'm running this contest so I get to be the interpreter for her guess. She guessed 4,1936. heh Hmmm.... what does that mean? To me it means 4193 - she was within five of the exact number we received!! Yay Theresa! And I DO have your ADDRESS!! I have a few little things already in mind for your contest prize but as the readers around here can testify.... I'm pretty slow about getting contest prizes mailed out. Watch for it some time in the next year (no, I'm not kidding). :)
And all of that mail that came on Monday included Other Stuff too!! And so did Tuesday and Wednesday plus we've gotten a few donations via PayPal! Yay! Here's a list of what we got on August 13-14-15, 2007:
- 636 squares! WooHoo!! That is just plain CRAZY! heh
- 8 yarn needles
- floss threaders for yarn needles! Cool!
- $46.47 (yes, we did get one funny donation for $6.47)
- 3 baby blankets
- seaming yarn! Yay!
- 1 knit cowl (in Rowan Calmer - Mmmm!)
- 2 scarfs
And all of those squares and Other Stuff came from the following people:
- Tracy - Greenwood, MO
- Maureen - North Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA
- Donna - Wentzville, MO
- Amy - Chicago, IL
- Loretta - Pisgah Forest, NC
- Mary - St. Paul, Alberta, CANADA
- J.C. - Mt. Clemens, MI
- Sarah - Beaverton, OR
- J.G. - Roseville, MI
- Mary - Laconia, NH
- Sheila - Catawba, NC
- Karla - Austin, TX
- Carin - Omaha, NE
- Leah - Louisa, KY
- Glenda - Austin, TX
- Cheryl - Corpus Christi, TX
- Venka - Concord, CA
- Annamarie - Doylestown, OH
- Rashel - North Brunswick, NJ
- Toni - Greensboro, NC
- Linda - Canton, MI
- Suzanne - Seattle, WA
- Margaret - Pleasant Hill, CA for Shell Ridge Community Baptist Church, Walnut Creek, CA
- Marianne - Greenville, NC
- Tina - Kalamazoo, MI
- Millie - Bowling Green, MO
- Stick and Heart Strings needlework group of First United Methodist Church - LaPorte, TX
- Barb and Pat - Houston, TX
- Marg - Pocatello, ID
- S.Z. - Denver, CO
- Diana - Stillwater, OK
- Cherri - Conklin, MI
- Criquette - Overland Park, KS
- Laura - Butlerville, IN for the Mission Circle of Graham Baptist Church
- Betsy - Chaska, MN for Jennifer, Kari, Laura and herself, all knitters from the suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul
- Trish - Condor, NY
- Nancy - Point Pleasant, NJ
- Marion - Milwaukie, OR
- Wilma - El Dorado, KS
- Mary - El Dorado, KS
- J.D. - Indianapolis, IN
- Carol - Placerville, CA
- Jean - Hollis Center, ME for ADK Sorority
- Lynn - Hollis, ME
- Carol - Sebago Lake, ME
- Marianne - Gardena, CA
- Joan - Acton, MA for West Acton Baptist Church Women
- Beth - Pocatello, ID
- Mary - SCOTLAND
- Elisebeth - Chalfont, PA
- Lynda - Strongsville, OH for Love's Many Cloths
- Cay - Austin, TX
WHEW! Gotta run - we've got visitors coming over to play this morning. Have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend!! XOXOXOX
