ShadowDancer on Oct 17th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Prizes
Just a quick note to let you know that I’m running away (vacation again) for the weekend.
I may not have internet access again until LAAAaaaate Wednesday night.
Whichy hopes to announce some more raffle prizes before I come back.
If I owe you email, or something, I promise to get to it Thursday.
And I’m hoping to get to the Post Office today to mail out prizes. If another stupid thing delays me again (long and ugly story, you don’t want to know — trust me), it may be until I get back….
ShadowDancer on Oct 10th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Prizes, Uncategorized
You may recall that we had awards planned for more than just Judged Competitions in addition to the Quantity Competitions and plethora of raffles.
One of those was an award for the Most Consistent Blogger. Those of you who posted, and posted regularly, really helped to make this blog worth reading. You made this KAL work. When we planned for this award, we were thinking we’d have a few folks who posted alot. And we did. But there was one person who posted far more regularly than any other. One who went far and above the call. One person whose contribution to this blog clearly deserves an award.
littlelena contributed 75 posts to this blog in the course of three months. I, for one, am grateful for her contribution. And thus, I am tickled to be able to award to her The Most Consistent Blogger Award.
In recognition of her contribution, she will receive a shawl pin from Designs by Romi.
littlelena will choose between these two pins ….
and we hope she’ll make her choice publicly!
ShadowDancer on Oct 9th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Newbie Lace Knitters, Prizes, Raffle Categories
A quick review…
Last week we awarded prizes for the Quantity Competitions (nolaboard knit the most small items, thislitlepiggyknits knit the most yards).
This week, we’re hoping to submit things to our Judges (but would really really really like to see some more nominations!). We plan to send the lists to them tomorrow — so you have one more day to nominate something for one or more of the judged competitions. We’re also hoping to get a nice set for the Viewers’ Choice Award, but need more nominations before we invite you to vote (hint hint).
While we wait for the judges, we thought we’d fire up the Random Number Generator and award some Raffle Prizes.
Our first end of Season Raffle will be for a Newbie Lace Prize. We’d like to reward those intrepid knitters who shared their very first forays into lace with all of us. We had seventeen newbie lace knitters who posted either the start or finish of one of their first three lace objects. Those seventeen Newbie lace knitters started 23 items between them, and finished over half of them.
WAY TO GO NEWBIES!!!
So… for our first Raffle, just for the Newbies, we have a Lace Knitting DVD from Meg Swansen and Tami at SchoolHouse Press
We’ve got 37 raffle "tickets" (each entrant got one entry for each object she cast on during the Season, and one for each object she finished, up to three of each per entrant). I sorted the entries by the date of the qualifying post, and fired up my friend the Random Number Generator. The winning numer is: 17.
And the winning knitter is Priscilla !
Congratulations Priscilla…. contact me with your snail mail address, and I’ll pop this right in the mail for you!
Meanwhile… we hope to run a Raffle every day or so until we run out of prizes. But don’t worry, we’ve set aside the prizes for the Judged Competitions, and will announce those once the judges have made their rulings.
ShadowDancer on Oct 2nd 2008 Administrative Stuff, Most Small Items, Most Yards, Quantity Competitions, Sponsors
Drum roll please.
Ladies and Gentlemen, as we promised before the Summer Season began, today we announce the results of our Quantity Competitions.
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For the Competition for the Most Small Items Knit (in which we defined "Small Item" to mean an item that took at least 350 and no more than 700 yards to complete), we had 14 original competitors. Some of them were overcome by startitis, and thus did not record any finished objects, having been buried under a flurry of lacy goodness to the point where they just couldn’t choose one thing. (I so recognize this condition!!) Others were lured by the temptations of lace in other sizes, and found themselves finishing things that were either too large or too small to qualify for this competition. And, unfortunately, some were beset by life, and had to withdraw from the competition.
Of the remaining five, one was sidetracked by her prodigious output for the yardage competition. None-the-less, she registered a solid 6 items. Had she been allowed to count her yardage related entries for both projects, that number would have been higher…
Our runner up, with 10 items was marinemom (if only those dishcloths had been bigger, she’d have tied for first!).
And the winner, with 12 documented finished items in the small lace category?
nolaboard! Congratulations nolaboard! You’ve won….
a $50.00 Gift Certificate from
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Next up in this awards "ceremony," the heated competition for the most yards knit of yarn into lace in a single season. We started the season with 37 hopefuls. Some of them decided to stick to a single competition, instead of trying to work on high yardage counts AND churning out small items whose yardage would not count in this competition. Others found themselves lured away by cables, or by textured socks. And some, alas, were also beset by life. In the end, we have an even dozen competitors.
tinker came in third, with an impressive 6,893 yards of yarn converted into lace.
littlelena is our runner up. She managed to knit 8,246 yards of yarn into lace. For this amazing feat, she wins the second place prize of a kit for the delicate silk scarf "Whisp of Summer" .
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and finally, our winner , who will be enjoying a
$50.00 gift certificate for
for having knit 11,855 yards of yarn into lace …. (yes, that’s eleven thousand , eight hundred fifty five yards of yarn) …. is
thislittlepiggyknits!!
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Congratulations! to our winners!
We hope you’ll post about what you’ve bought with your winnings!
The judged awards will take a bit more time. We seem to still be collecting nominations, and then we have to give our esteemed panel of judges time to consider the nominees.
While we wait for the Judge’s decisions….— RAFFLES.
And…. a chance to vote for your favorite of the Viewers Choice Nominees!
Oh…. finally, for the record, Here are the final rankings for all competitors posting numbers for these Competitions:
Most Small Items
lynnzpickles 2 (plus many started projects)
vicki 4
birgi t 6
Marinemom 10
nolaboard 12
Yardage Competition
KnatteringKnitter 1000
textilejunkie 1412
Melfina the Blue 1419
alittlefuzzy 1428
kcatt79Â 2000
escr 2267
yarnpro 2560
birgit 3680
sligo 5260
tinker 6893
littlelena 8246
thislittlepiggyknits 11,855
Whichy on Sep 30th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Judged Contests
Morning All! One more post from the Admins this morning. First thing I want to thank all of the folks who have submitted nominations for our Judged Contests. But considering all of the fabulous posts and projects we’ve seen this summer, I think the quantity of nominations is a little low.
Here are the numbers as they stand now -
- Lace Partnerships - 8 nominations
- Lace Disasters -Â 2 nominations
- Lace Extravaganza - 3 nominations
- Lace on Display - 2 nominations
- Lace on Vacation - 4 nominations
- Viewers Choice Award - 2 nominations
All of the items that have been nominated are fabulous, but we would like to give our judges a few more nominations to work with.
So I and the other admins would like to encourage everyone to take a look at the archives and give someone a chance to win a prize. Don’t forget you can nominate yourself for everything but Viewers Choice Award.
ShadowDancer on Sep 26th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Most Small Items, Most Yards, Quantity Competitions
Greetings one and all.
I’m sitting here with my spreadsheets and all the entry forms, making sure that I have all of the entries in, and that my data is accurate. For clarification, and so that I really do award the prizes to the competition winners, I’d like to verify the following things:
The following folks once stated that they intended to participate in the Most Small Items Knit competition. Those whose names are bolded are folks from whom I have Final Submissions (and indeed other supporting data). The rest of you are folks for whom I have no competition entry data. If you did want to compete, you have until Sunday, September 28 at noon CST to get your posts up and your competition forms in. UPDATE: Those whose withdrawals I’ve received are stricken out (so you can confirm I got your messages)
birgit
Cathy-Cate
errs
ghedrain
lynnzpickles
Marinemom
mksmiles
nolaboard
Niyala
Priscilla
RondaBen
tinker
vicki
yarnpro
There are even more folks who signed up for the Most Yardage competition… again, those for whom I have actual data are bolded . UPDATE: Those whose withdrawals I’ve received are stricken out (so you can confirm I got your messages)
alittlefuzzy
Bagoyarn
beadntat
birgit
Cathy-Cate
darla
drmonica
errs
escr
fic_kitty
ghedrain
jan229
JessieLynn
Judybll
Justine
kcatt79
laceystew
lynnzpickles
madcraftermom
Marinemom
Melfina the Blue
mksmiles
nataletne
Niayla
nolaboard
Priscilla
Radarkaty
Rondaben
sligo
SusanS
textilejunkie
thislittlepiggyknits
tinker
vicki
yarnpro
yarnzie
I also have littlelena and KnatteringKnitter who didn’t originally sign up for that competition, but for whom I have yardage information.
If you intended to compete, NOW is the time to get that information to us!
Please be sure to post a summing up post (with pictures of all the goodies) and a total count (yardage or number of small (e.g.350-700 yds) items)), and to include a link to that post in your final competition submission.
ShadowDancer on Sep 24th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Prizes
Th-th-th-that’s all folks!
I hope you all had a lovely Autumnal Equinox, and that you will enjoy the new season.
We’re taking a breather (sort of), and will be setting up for the Winter of Lace to start in December.
In the interim, we will be gathering all our data for the raffles and the contests and the competitions. We’ll sent up a page for the judges to view that has copies of the relevant posts or pictures on it. We’ll assemble the raffle lists and run the random generators… and with any luck, we’ll be announcing prizes without too much delay.
We’re also going to be contemplating how well this round went, and how we can change things to make them run more smoothly. We’ll happily entertain your recommendations (and are likely to put up some sort of poll to get more input).
We hope you’ll keep posting your lovely lace to keep us all inspired! And we will look forward to seeing you again for Winter of Lace!!!
Thanks for all the fun!
ShadowDancer — the Prize Maven
Whichy on Sep 18th 2008 Administrative Stuff
Well just the end of the Summer of Lace -
This just a reminder for you all that the summer season is coming to an end, if you have updates you’ve been putting off now is the time for getting them writen and posted. At midnight U.S. Central time on Sept. 23 we’ll stop counting any posts, projects, and yardage submissions.
Don’t forget to about the nomination categories:
- Lace Partnerships - Best pairing of yarn and pattern
- Lace on Display - Best photograph of a finished lace object
- Lace Disasters - Best lace disaster photo
- Lace on Vacation - Best photo of your lace relaxing somewhere fun
- Lace Extravaganza - Most Impressive and/or Adventurous Lace Object
- Viewers Choice Award
Have you nominated anyone in these categories? Maybe you want to peruse the archive and find an award winner, maybe you want to nominate yourself!
Either way, remember September 23 rd at midnight U.S. Central time is the day.
sligo on Sep 4th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Medium Lace -701-1800 yds, Most Yards, Random Joy
Yes, I changed my mind and decided to finish the Goddess Knits Mystery Shawl No. 9. I have half a row to knit before I bind off, and I plan to block it out tonight. I just couldn’t face taking out all my work. I did cut about twenty-eight rows out of the pattern to make it work. I am using the yarn and needles called for, but there simply wasn’t enough. Anyway, I didn’t really like how abruptly the pattern ends, so I added a band of garter stitch, which is almost always a winner. Pictures in a day or so, when it’s dry. then I’m going to finish the edging on my sampler before I reward myself with Isis and another Mandala shawl. I had no idea that I loved knitting lace this much.
I also just went through and sent in my yardage updates. It’s surprising what one can do when motivated. Oh, and the television these past two weeks has been very good for knitting.
Whichy on Jul 17th 2008 Administrative Stuff
We’ve been having some problems with the Add Media Button in the post editor. Between web browsers that can’t get it to work properly, folks who have been uploading pictures for storage, and authors who don’t know what do to with all the options. So I would like to encourage everyone to use the “Insert/Edit image” button that is part of the main posting tool bar. The icon looks like this –> 
. It should allow you to do all the same things the Add Media button did, but with a much simpler and more browser compatible interface.
Below are step by step instructions for how to post an image using this button: (I’ve put in a bunch of images so the specifics are below the Continue Reading link)
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