I decided to take the Handmade Pledge for my part of Dish Rag Tag: the Sequel long before I announced the start date. The prizes are a cavalcade of handmade!
To start, I contracted with my Mom (who should really have an etsy shop, I hope all this sewing will inspire her) to make prizes for the top three teams. Members of the team that places Third in the Dish Rag Tag Final Standings will receive:
A project bag! (It is Dish Rag Size! And sock size!)
Then, to dress it up a bit, I got in touch with Dragonlady Designs and had her create stitch markers for the top two teams. Members of the team that places Second in the Dish Rag Tag Final Standings will receive:
A project bag and a set of lemon drop stitch markers!
Then, because I can’t stand it when every one else has all the crafty fun (and if I ordered them, they wouldn’t match – you know how I like it when things match), I set about making a little something for the top team. Members of the team that places First in the Dish Rag Tag Final Standings will receive:
A project bag, a set of sour cherry stitch markers and a matching tape measure (each topped with a different button from Great Gran’s box)!
Note: If a team with a Manly Knitter on board (we have more than a few) should happen to score one of the top spots, I have a more masculine project bag as a substitute for the floral ones.
I made a whole new forum for the Dish Rag Tag Superlatives and started topics for each one. Superlative entries should be posted in the appropriate forum. At the end of the race, the team captains will help me pick the top 5 entries and we will have an open vote (which means that non-participating folks can vote) to pick the winner. Winners will receive a button for their blogs, a certificate to print and a permanent entry in the Dish Rag Tag Hall of Fame*.
I also added a forum for the Individual Merit Awards and created two topics there to make it even easier to submit Hard Luck Stories and nominate people for Mr/Miss/Mrs Congeniality. Email submissions are still happily accepted and all official rules, restrictions and dates still apply.
There is one more Individual Merit Award in the works because it was too good an idea to pass up and there is a prize for it! But that is a post all by itself I think. Oh the suspense!
*I am not sure what this is, I just thought of it this morning. Dish Rag Tag is nothing if not Ever Evolving.
How awesome. You have come up with the best stuff ever!!!!! Thanks for today’s eye candy.
Well I sure hope my team is one of those top three… I love the prizes
Please, please, please get your mom to open an etsy shop. The bags are gorgeous.
The prizes are fabulous! Yes, your Mom should oepn an etsy shop. Wow! I sure hope our team is in the top 3.
Those are some wonderful prizes! I hope my team wins!
How exciting! And, great handmade goodies! You are right…your mother should have an etsy shop! The two of you could team up and provide loverly project bags with matching tape measures! I would be happy to encourage your mother!
Have a blessed day!
WOW!! I am so excited, to soon be getting my box….
I am a beginner at all of this stuff so I hope I can follow the pattern and do my team proud!!! The prizes are the best I have ever seen!!!! GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY AND GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Those bags are just too cute! Thanks to you & your wonderful mom for her lovely handiwork for the placing teams!
Such nice prizes!
The prizes are fantastic. You are doing a fabulous job and many thanks to you and your mom for the wonderful prizes
Wow Emily–you’ve gotten together such beautiful prizes! We get to have all this fun, and there are prizes, too! Thank you so much–of course I’m hoping our team wins one of the top three!
Wow- GREAT prizes!!
What wonderful prizes, and you even thought to have alternate “masculine” prizes lined up! You really go all out.
They all look lovely! That’s a whole lot of handmade awesomeness.
Love the bags and stitch markers what a great prize.I hope that my team will be on the top three.Thanks
I just wanted to play until I saw those bags, now I hope my team actually wins one. They are adorable!
The prizes are fantastic. I know we all covet them. Your Moms project bags are super, and the stitch markers and tape measures are so cute. Yep, I’m like everyone else and I hope our team wins. You are too creative.
WOW!!!! Neat prizes…Hope that my team is one of the top three…Thanks for doing a great job.
Great prizes!!! 🙂 LOVE that they are all handmade!
Well I just should have joined this year. Now that is it! You winners will be soooooo happy to have those incredible handcreated items. Stay safe in the hurricane season. Keep us posted.
What awesome prizes…you and your mom are great!
Glad to know I’m not the only person in the whole wide world still knitting dishcloths 🙂
P.S. I have neighbors who I don’t owe anything to.. I took them a container of fresh honey with a big chunk of comb still in there..the girl looked at me like she had NO idea what the heck it even was, or what to do with it, and could barely manage to say thanks. ::sigh::
Won’t you be my neighbor?? *grin* The favors could go both ways 🙂
Wow those are some great prizes! Go Knitting Aces! We can do it!!!
Sorry Emily that was me with the last comment–didn’t realize i had not personalized my comment he he…
Marisol