Monthly Archives: September 2010

DRT: Weekly Roundup #1

finding the sun

She’s learning from the best.

While William Henry and Ellie shared a sunbeam this afternoon, I kept an eye on the Team Widgets in my side bar. When I started typing this, all but two had advanced another ker-chunk closer to Dish Rag Glory.

As I was watching those bars inch up one by one, I got to thinking:

I know many of you have blogs, and those of you that don’t will still have a Dish Rag Tag story to tell. What if I create a weekly post for the sole purpose of sharing Dish Rag Tag related activities from the past week*?

That seems like a pretty good idea! So here’s the first Revenge of Dish Rag Tag Round up. We’ll keep in up until all the boxes make it home.

Please leave links to your blog posts in the comments. If you don’t have a blog, but you have a story, tell it to us in the comments!

I can’t wait to read where those boxes have been.

*I had a look a Mr. Linky’s Magical Widgets. That might make this round-up process even easier, but I would have to pick one of their existing memes and I just can’t make it work. I did give serious thought to using “Cats on Wednesday” and claiming it was a typo.

DRT: GO!

boxes in a USPS tote

Waiting on the front porch.

I scheduled a pick up! I had a tote I needed to return. Carrier pick up is a free service. I really hate waiting in line. With the long weekend they’ll get there on Tuesday no matter what I do. So I figured why not? The race has started and I’m still in my PJs drinking coffee!

But it’s not very dramatic.

Hurry up, Letter Carrier.

DRT: Get Set

boxes in a line

Labels get printed tomorrow!

You’ve got a Small Flat Rate Box, now you need supplies:

  • Ball of Dish Cloth Cotton – Peaches & Creme, Sugar’n Cream, you know the kind. I had a hard time getting the “super-sized” balls to fit in the box, so you might want to stick with the standard.
  • Knitting needles – I used US 5s, Mom used US 7s – it all depends on how tightly you knit. The finished cloth should be around 7 inches square, beyond that, gauge is not that big of a deal.
  • Small treat for your teammate – the box is small, your treat to pass onto the next knitter will need to be small too!
just one more

One more thing.

Is that another Small Flat Rate box I see? Could there possibly be one more team?

In completely unprecedented circumstances, every single knitter who signed up for Revenge of Dish Rag Tag is present, accounted for and ready to knit. I did not have to call up a single alternate this year.

But I had 12 disappointed alternates.

So I’m making one more team.

Y’all don’t mind a little more friendly competition do you?