Dish Rag Tag Glory

Ladies and Gentlemen. Almost one month to the day* since the race began, we have a First Place Team!

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Team Hip-Knit-Tised!

What dedication to Teammates! What devotion to competition! What yummy chocolate inside!

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As you can see, Deborah (KS) packed the box full of fun stuff for me: Peaches & Creme in a colorway I haven’t seen (patriotic dish cloths), Post-it notes with matching highlighters (heehee), chocolate (those new Russell Stover Private Reserve which I highly recommend) and the all-important dish rag (I love the YO edges). Thank you so much Deborah and congratulations to the entire Hip-Knit-Tised Team!

Second and Third Places in the race are still up-for-grabs – as well as all of the Individual Merit Awards! The prizes for those are as follows:

  • Fastest Turn Around – A one-of-a-kind pair of blockers from Becky of Leggy Creations! Because you really have to Leg It to get the box back in the mail on the same day.
  • Best Dish Rag KIP Picture – A skein of Trekking sock yarn (color 76) provided by Kathy! Get it? Because you have to trek out of the house to KIP? Maybe I am not as funny as I think I am.
  • Most Complex Stitch Pattern – A set of stitch markers made by Ebinla! Stitch markers just make sense.
  • Miss Congeniality – A precious sweet (much like a Miss Congeniality herself) Nifty Notions Keeper hand-made by Kristin**!

I am adding another category to the Individual Merit Awards: Best Dish Rag Tag Hard Luck Story. To enter this one, blog about your horrendous, frustrating or disastrous Dish Rag Tag Experience and email me the perma-link. We’ll pick the top five and then they will be voted on by the public at large. If you have already sent me the link to your Hard Luck Story for fun, would you please send it to me again to enter? The prize for this one: stitch markers of course! This set is from Carrie, Team Captain of Going the Dish-Tance.

I’ve got one more Top Secret Merit Award up my sleeve and I’m not going to tell you what it is or what it’s for. Surprises can be fun!

I will to leave you with this verse inscribed by Sue on the outside of the Hip-Knit-Tised box:

Thru wind and storms
As dark as Night
I’ll Knit my cloth with
All my Might.

Knit on to Dish Rag Tag Glory.

* As near as Labor Day Weekend would allow anyway.
**Who, it amuses me to see, has posted a lolcat from today’s cheezburger.

30 thoughts on “Dish Rag Tag Glory”

  4. Marcia Louise

    THREE CHEERS for the “Hip” Team, may you dye wonderfully colored yarn! I got tagged this morning and OH the butterflies in my tummy….I’m last on the list and So-o-o-o excited. This thing is far from over! EMILY…watch out, it is com’in at ya soon from me!

  9. Darlene

    O.K. I guess I’ll congratulate the winning team….sniff, sniff….I wanted to win!!! Waaa! Waaa! But Hey…..2nd place wouldn’t be to bad a spot to be in!!! Go TEAM!!!

    Looks like a GREAT pkg…..this has been absolutely the MOST fun, a LOT of work for you Emily….I certainly do appreciate all the work you did to get this together and hope (hint, hint) this can be an annual summer event to look forward to!!!!

  10. Christy

    This was the most fun, well organized, bloggy based knitting event I’ve ever had the privilege to be part of. Thank you for your hard work, Emily.

  11. Wanda

    Yay for you receiving the first package. Sad b/c it wasn’t my team! But this has been so much fun. I’ve really enjoyed participating in it. Thanks so much for setting this up.

  13. Carol

    Congratulations to Team Hip-Knit-Tised!

    And thanks for putting together such a fun contest!
    I’m definitely up to another one of these. I had a Blast!

  14. Grace

    This was a hoot and a hollar, and I had a blast doing it. As for the merit awards to we nominate people tell our own stories or what???? Having a senior moment and not getting it

    Go DishRagTag #2

  16. Bibby

    Congrats to the 1st Place team!!! Can’t wait to see who comes in at 2nd & 3rd.

    Thanks for your great gaming skills as well as organization! Emily, you amazingly covered every little detail & it was all planned out so well!!! Thanks for everything.

  17. De

    Congrats to the Hip team. I would love to do this again but not so close to a holiday. :o( I hope we can be second.

  18. Becky

    What a great race! Looking forward to seeing how it all turns out. In the meantime, a big Congrats to Hip-Knit-Tised. Way to go!

    Thanks again and again, Emily. 🙂

  20. AllyB

    Emily, you must have a HUGE mailbox! lol I’m sure it won’t be near big enough the next few days when all those other boxes start pouring in. Thank you so much for a super fun month of Tag.

  21. JenW!~

    Crongratulations to Tean Hip-Knit-Tised. This was fun. I met alot of new bloggers and can’t wait til next years race.Thanks Emily for taking on such a task.You Rock!

  22. Nichole

    congrats to the winning team!!! Now to see who takes 2nd and 3rd…

    How do we nominate for the individual rewards? I’d like to nominate our lovely Grace from Lucky 13 for the fastest turnaround!

  23. Sue

    Congratulations to the winning team! Thanks so much, Emily, for organizing this very unique and fun swap/race. You’re the best.

  25. nichole

    We (Lucky 13) just saw that our box was delivered to you (EMILY!) this morning… at least the USPS tracking # shows that… can’t wait to find out if we made it in for 2nd or 3rd… woo hoo! This was so much fun – thank you again Emily for organizing such a cool adventure!

  27. Lynne

    Em, this was about the most fun I’ve had with a swap ever! Congratulations to the winning team and to you, a great Hostess! You know, when I saw that picture of Kathy B when she posted it, I cracked up! GOOD choice for funniest picture. Only Kathy would do something like that! Again, thank you for a great idea, which has had a great end.

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