YAY! The day is finally here, and I know almost everyone is chomping at the bit to start.
Well . . . what are you waiting for? Its Summer, start your knitting!
I want to say thank you to everyone who has participated already. When ShadowDancer, PassingDownCrazy, and I started this we were afraid no one would come along, and now here we are with over 200 members, a whole host of generous sponsors and a pile of beautiful prizes. (psst. lets show them some love for being so generous!)
To those of you who have registered, but haven’t posted yet - Come on in, the water is fine! I can’t wait to see what you’ll show us.
We’ve had a few questions about some of the rules, so I thought I would try to do a little clarification, and post answers to some of our most common questions here.
I’ve registered for the competitions, do I have to register for the blog too?
YES! You need to register and post about your projects on the blog. We don’t need much, but a few pictures here and there and some text, so we can see that you are *actually* knitting something. 
At minimum please show us something from when you start your project, and a finished project. Also remember the raffle prizes, Comptition Knitters are still eligible for raffle prizes, so posting about your projects makes it more likely you’ll win a prize.
Does the yardage I knit while knitting items for “Most Small Lace Items” qualifiy for the “Most Yardage” competition?
Nope - they need to be seperate, otherwise, someone might beable to easily sweep both categories. You are more than welcome to knit for both competitions, but you can’t count one project for both competitions.
What is the deal with the “categories” and “tags”?
Categories are largely to help us mods track everyones progress. They help us make sure that we don’t miss giving someone a chance at a raffled prize for their eligable projects. So please make sure that you choose the right posting category when you post about your project.
Tags are up to you and can be anything you want. They should be one word or a group of words; each tag should be seperated by a comma. Tags help other readers and search engines find your posts by subject.
I have registered for one of the Competitions - can I still win a raffle prize?
YES!! Two ways! 1) Just by posting on the blog you are eligible for any of the Random Joy prizes. 2) Assuming your competition knitting falls into any of the classes that we have set for the raffle prizes, just post about your project and mark it with the appropriate posting category and you are all set to go.
Anything else? Ask away - I’ll do my best to answer them. I
p.s. I am going to “sticky” this post for a few days and then it will float down the page like a regular post
, we’ve ended up with a few MORE prizes than we need to all of the things we planned. And now we are spending time trying to figure out the best way to award them.
