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ShadowDancer on Oct 2nd 2008 Administrative Stuff, Most Small Items, Most Yards, Quantity Competitions, Sponsors

Quantity Competitons - and their Winners (updated)

Drum roll please.

Ladies and Gentlemen, as we promised before the Summer Season began, today we announce the results of our Quantity Competitions.

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

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” .

Whisp of Summer

from

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!!

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
kcatt79 2000
escr 2267
yarnpro 2560
birgit 3680
sligo 5260
tinker 6893
littlelena 8246
thislittlepiggyknits 11,855

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Whichy on Sep 30th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Judged Contests

Nom Nom Nom Nom

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 - 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.

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ShadowDancer on Sep 26th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Most Small Items, Most Yards, Quantity Competitions

And the Prize Processing Goes forward…

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).Â The rest of you are folks for whom I have no competition entry data.Â 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.

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ShadowDancer on Sep 24th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Prizes

Farewell to Summer … hello Autumn… What’s next.

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

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Whichy on Sep 18th 2008 Administrative Stuff

The end is Nigh! - Correction

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.

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sligo on Sep 4th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Medium Lace -701-1800 yds, Most Yards, Random Joy

Half a row left.

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.

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Whichy on Jul 17th 2008 Administrative Stuff

Posting images - hopefully a helpful tutorial

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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Whichy on Jul 15th 2008 Administrative Stuff

A Few KAL Blog Stats

Those of you who read us through a feed won’t see the new addition to blog, but we have added category links to the side bar. The links allow you to go directly to a page that has the posts just from that category, they also show you the number of posts in each category - Check out that whopping 106 Casting On! posts!.

But here are a few less obvious stats:

We have 243 registered authors (including the 3 admins)
Of those 243 authors, 115 have posted to our blog,
Since opening we have written a total of 405 posts

The top poster has made 28 posts, and 49 of us have made 1 post

On 405 posts we have replied with 271 comments

Thanks to all of you who post and comment (cause nothing helps morale like getting a nice comment on your post!) We (the admins) are SO pleased you all decided to join us this summer!

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ShadowDancer on Jul 9th 2008 Administrative Stuff, I designed it myself!, Lace on Vacation, Medium Lace -701-1800 yds

Deadlines to Join … and Lace Progress

First, …. a wee heads up for those of you who may be dithering about joining this KAL (or know someone who has been dithering but hasn’t made it here yet): The sign ups are closing on Saturday at midnight (CST). Sign ups for the quanityt competitons are about to close as well! So… there’s still time to join, but not a lot of time. C’mon (and tell your buds), there’re lots of prizes! So many, in fact, that I’m about to award another to celebrate the fact that they let me cross the border back into the USA yesterday.

Spending hours in the passenger seat gives you lots of time for knitting… and thanks to my wonderful DH, who drove 2/3 of the way from Damarascotta, Maine to St. John, New Brunswick — and all of the way back, I got to spend about ten hours in the passenger seat over the past week. I took full advantage, and worked on two lace projects…

…. making quite a bit of headway on Willow…

I think that heavily beaded bit might actually look like water. It would be better if there were room for two rounds of that, but I think I’ll have to cut things short and get on with the edging if I don’t want the thing to go past my knees….

Daedelus shows it’s progress a bit more. Perhaps the fact that Willow has well over 500 stitches per row now has something to do with that. Here’s the second feather section…

It looks rather sad there, all unblocked… but those feathers will be lovely when it’s done.

Here’s another shot with Daedelus blowing in the sea breeze..

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quiltmomoffive on Jun 28th 2008 Administrative Stuff, Uncategorized

It’s Shopping Time!

I just updated the sponsor link on the right side of the page. Let me just tell you that I want to go shopping! There are stitch markers, patterns, and gorgeous yarns out there and they want to go to your house!!! Grab yourself a glass of lemonade and have fun.

Maria the maven

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