Here's one for the yarnies - 12 in '14
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Are you a yarn lover? A HaldeCraft yarn lover? Are you on Ravelry? If you answered yes to all three questions…. I have an -along for you.
This is loosely inspired by -alongs like the “Self Imposed Sock Club”, which is where The Yarn Harlot suggested sock knitters with “too much stash” – AS IF – choose one skein of yarn and one pattern, put it in a bag, do this twelve times, and you have a year’s worth of projects right there. And of course you love the yarn (you bought it!) and you love the pattern (you favorited it!) so it’s guaranteed to make you happy.
One of my personal goals for next year is LESS PRESSURE, and weirdly with as much as I love -alongs, they also stress me out when I join them. Nothing destroys my love for a project like an imposed deadline! So I want to do something that will for me, be fun. I also want to do something that everyone ELSE will think is fun, but put little or no pressure on them, will use up stash, will inspire us to get to patterns we’ve had our eye on, but will also allow us to come and go as we please.
SO THEN!
12 in ’14!
I’m proposing a year-long -along (along-along-rama-lama-ding-dong), wherein those who want to participate choose twelve one-skein projects and twelve skeins of yarn, match them up, bag them (for some reason I was thinking lunch bags, so it would be a blind choice every month, but in re-reading The Yarn Harlot’s post I see she did Ziplocs), and then once a month pull out a bag and Get To It.
Because I’m me, and I like options more than I like absolutes, and also because I like to give lots of prizes, I’ve thought up so many levels at which people can join this yearly -along that it’s almost staggering. THANK YOU, BRAIN.
THE OVERALL RULES:
- Twelve one-skein patterns should be used. You can use more than one skein if you wish (like with colorwork), but if one of the two skeins is a HaldeCraft yarn, 75% of that skein should be used.
- All patterns and weights of yarn are chosen by the participant.
- At least seven of those skeins should be HaldeCraft HandDyed or Handspun (or old Perhaps Today is a Good Day to Dye skeins).
- Patterns chosen should use at least 75% of the skein. If using two skeins (like with colorwork), and one of the skeins is a HaldeCraft yarn, 75% of that skein should be used in the project.
- Unless choosing the Red Shirt level, projects should be started no earlier than the first of the month and finished no later than the last day of the month.
- Level of participation should be chosen by January 1st, with the exception of the Red Shirt Bonus.
- Unless indicated, one “winner” (hey, we’re all winners!) will be chosen from each category from the people within that category who completed their goals, using the RNG, for prizes that I am still working out the details on but trust me they will be EPIC. OK, actually I know the prizes, I’m just trying to figure out the phrasing so that everyone understands that the winners are chosen from within the level of participation, not that everyone is a winner. I mean, we’re all winners! But not literally, because I only have so many prizes. Ugh. English.
- Pick twelve one-skein projects.
- Start and finish one project per month.
- At least seven of those twelve skeins must be my yarns.
- At least 75% of each skein must be used in the project.
- I’m offering more than $400 in prizes.
- Pick your level of participation.
- Read the rules.