So many stamps!

While I’m wrapping up the prizes, please enjoy some Dish Rag Tag Trivia brought to you by Dish Rag Tag’s Official Record Keeper, Amanda!

Did you know – there are only 2 names that have been repeated in the 4 years and 73 teams in DRT?

Sweet 16 – 2007 & 2008
Dish Rag Divas – it’s a sweep! 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Amanda has also calculated the average knitting/shipping times per knitter over the entire race (day counts include post office holidays and weekends, and knitter counts include me)!

2010’s winners:
Doggone Dishrag Addicts 9/2/2010 (Fri) to 10/15/2010 (Fri) 44 days/ 13 knitters = 3.38 days per knitter

2009’s winners:
Needling Ninjas 8/28/2009 (Fri) to 9/30/2009 (Wed)
34 total days/11 knitters = 3.09 days per knitter

2008’s winners:
Deuces Wild 8/15/2008 (Fri) to 9/24/2008 (Wed)
41 total days/13 knitters = 3.15 days per knitter

2007’s winners:
Hip-Knit-Tised 8/1/2007 (Wed) to 9/5/2007 (Wed)
36 days/11 knitters = 3.27 days per knitter

Speedy speedy knitting!

There are still four boxes out and about (although I expect one in the mailbox today)! What is your personal days per dishrag? Share with us in the comments.

First through Third have finished the race! Fourth is waiting in my mailbox*!

Lady Bird is curious…

How has the week been for the other seven teams? Tell her in the comments. I will read them to her.

Because cats can’t read.

*We left this morning for the beach. The last time I looked at the tracking information there wasn’t any. The box was in Texas on Monday. TEXAS. I was sure it wouldn’t be here until tomorrow! How a box can take three days to get here from an hour away AND take three days to get here from four states away is really just beyond me. ARGH! I’ll tell you all about it when we get home tomorrow.

William Henry Peg is going on a picnic!

Was your dish rag knitting this week a picnic? Or was it like when the cat stows away in the basket and eats all your food?

That’s all I can come up with today. I’m too excited for more!

I’VE BEEN TAGGED!

The memento for the first team to attain Dish Rag Tag Glory took more thought and a lot of poking around on Etsy. But I knew what I wanted the minute I saw it.

A star for a job well done!

Sweet and delicate, these tiny stoneware dishes make my heart go pitter pat. A Dandelion Blows is well stocked with functional and decorative stoneware. Buttons and bowls and tiny pumpkins and this bracelet that I totally covet which is odd because I don’t wear jewelry. So now I have a I have a box full of stars from a kind and personable seller. They all say this on the bottom:

DRT 2010

How awesome is that? I just have to figure out how to mail the tiny fragile things. Do you think chocolate will make adequate packing material?

How awesome was your Dish Rag Week? That’s what the comments are for!

The prize for the second team to attain Dish Rag Tag Glory is actually the first prize I picked. Trophies.

Knitty Girls

Kat’s in the Belfry makes these great Shakespeare People. They are peg dolls with bee-stung lips dressed in passages by the Bard. So I thought, I wonder if Kat would dress them in knitting patterns? Ellie wants them all. And, I have to confess, so do I.

How’s the race going? Last week was surprisingly quiet (at least in my comments). This week I see several status bars inching into the front! Please share you experiences or links to your blog posts in the comments.

Trophies. Mementos. Keepsakes.

Prizes.

The third team to achieve Dish Rag Tag Glory in Revenge of Dish Rag Tag will receive a custom Dish Rag Tag tin from Natalie’s Nest to commemorate that achievement! These tins are the perfect size for a couple yarn needles, some stitch markers and a safety pin or two and the hinged lid will never get lost. I’ve got one this size in my most used knitting basket and I have found it invaluable.

This year, the race is smaller and more personal, but no less special. This year, the prizes are smaller and more personal, but no less special. In fact, I think they are extra-special and I wish I had commissioned 13 of everything so I could keep one for myself.

Has your DRT experience this week been smaller and more personal or did you make your dishrag in a shocking display of public knitting? Tell us (or be a linky-loo) in the comments!

How’s it going Dish Rag Taggers?

Those status bars are moving forward, but no one has pulled ahead of the pack. It’s still anybody’s race!

Tell us in the comments if you had the box this week! Do you have any tips for the other racers? Have a blog post you’d like to share? How’s the pattern?

Inquiring Emilys want to know.

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.