Individual Merit

Dish Rag Tag is designed to promote team work among knitters, but it is also meant to inspire individual knitters to acts of greatness. In acknowledgement of the spirit of the Individual, I joyfully announce the Individual Merit Awards for Dish Rag Tag: the Sequel. Individual Merit Awards can be won by any participant, regardless of team performance. Merit Award Winners will not be decided until the last box has returned to the Yarn Miracle Household.

Fastest Turn-Around
This honor will be bestowed based on tag times in the DRT Application. Everyone who received the box and got it mailed again on the same day will be placed in a hat. The winner will receive a CD from Harvest Moon Upper Room with all (that’s right – ALL) of her dish cloth patterns! You will also receive a cone of Peaches and Cream from Jane so you don’t even have to buy yarn to get started! It’s the perfect combination.

Miss/Mrs./Mr. Congeniality
Nominations for Miss/Mrs./Mr. Congeniality should be emailed to me (emily@yarnmiracle.com) before the end of the race. Nominations can be based on general kindness and helpfulness in the forums, a shining moment of Dish Rag Tag selflessness, or even just plain friendliness. Feel free to nominate as many people as you like, there will be two winners of this prestigious award for 2008! The first will be based on which individual receives the most nominations and the second will be a drawing. One nomination equals one spot in the drawing (if three people nominate you, you’ll have three chances of winning) and the overall winner will be excluded from the pot. Nominations must be in my in-box before the last box is in my mail box. **NOTE: I have added a forum topic to make it even easier to nominate people for this award!** Elizabeth and Beth will be providing the two lucky winners with knitty goodness.

Dish Rag Tag Hard Luck Story
Bad knitting makes for good stories. Please submit your Tales of Woe via email (emily@yarnmiracle.com) to compete for this prestigious award! You can either send me a permalink to your blog entry or the whole story in prose if you are blogless. Feel free to enter other people if their stories are suitable tragic! The Ivey household will narrow the entries down to five and then everyone will have a chance to vote for their favorite. You do have to email me to be entered in this – there are 288 of you and one one of me – even on a good day I couldn’t keep up with all those blogs (not to mention the un-blogged knitters). Entries must be in my in-box before the last box is in my mail box. **NOTE: There is now a forum topic to make it even easier to submit your Hard Luck Story!** Lesley is providing a set of stitch markers as a beautiful and delicate pick-me-up for the winner. There also candy associated with this award, nothing soothes the soul like sugar.

Emily’s Surprise Award
An unexpected tradition continues as I don’t tell you what this award is for until the end! The prize for this year is two great knitting books from DeeDee: Inspired Fair Isle Knits and New Directions in Knitting. I’ve been leafing through these (never let a knitting book go by unopened I always say) and even though I haven’t done any colorwork since the Knitting Olympics, these designs make me want to give it another go.

There are also many wonderful individuals who have sponsored Award and Prize Mailing! I want to take just a minute to acknowledge Kate, Alaina and Lisa! Be sure to stop by and thank them when the Tangible Evidence of Dish Rag Tag Glory arrives in your mail boxes!

Thank you so much to all of our Dish Rag Tag Sponsors for 2008! You have really made this a fabulous race with your generous offers and enthusiasm.

I didn’t forget about 1st, 2nd and 3rd team prizes! My Mom has half of them which makes them a little hard to photograph. We are visiting this week so I won’t have to keep you in agonizing suspense for much longer!

PS I am also considering some just for fun type of awards where the prize is only Fame (such as Most Stuff Crammed in a Tiny Box) so if you’ve got any ideas, I’d love to hear them.
PPS It would be nice if the hosting company would email me BEFORE I exceeded my bandwidth, not after.

7 thoughts on “Individual Merit

  1. Suzy DeWolf

    Hi Emily! I received the box @ 4PM on a Thursday & Had it boxed up by 9PM that same nite. I mailed it 2 8AM on Friday on my way to Spin class…does that count for anything?? Unfortunately, I’m highly competitive!!! Thanks, Suzy

  2. Mariso

    Hmmm in your email you also mentioned considering a prize for the most items crammed in the box. I had no idea we were doing this and I was a little more skimpier than usual since I thought these were the rules for this one. Keeping it light. Otherwise I would have stuffed and stuffed you know how good I am at that:)

  3. Denise Salmons

    Hard Luck Story would be me. The day Emily mailed me the “Team Captain” the dish rag to set the pace for my team, we had a strike at work. What this meant for me was a ton of stress and 14-15 hour days-this does not leave a lot of time for knitting. By the time I got home I couldn’t think- so woe is my story-I was able to get the dish rag out three days later much to dismay.
    Signed,
    Poor Me,The Drunken Purl
    Denise

  4. Shelly

    You went to so much effort to pull this off, I thought I’d post a comment on your blog.

    THANK YOU for doing this. It has kept my mind off my nervous and not quite back to school yet teens and onto happier thoughts.

    Denise – I’m gonna hav eto track you down. You don’t happen to work for GPC, do ya?

  5. Jan

    I am new to Dishrag Tag this year, so I want to say thank you to all for their posts which have really inspired me. I got the box this afternoon and finished this evening..sending it out tomorrow…whew!! What fun…I am already looking forward to next year!!

  6. Alicia

    Cool prizes… thanks go out to all of the vendors donations! As always, great job setting it up Emily!
    Mariso, I kept mine light too with the new rules.

  7. Shannon

    How cool! I just found this post. I got my box at 8:00 am and mailed it out the same day at 4:30 pm. (And I worked the whole day – thank God for breaks!) 🙂

    I have enjoyed this whole thing SO much!

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