Calendar Update

Well Wednesday is the big big day for our calendar. If you select the below link it will take you to paying for the calendar and complete the process. If you want more info about our calendar first, check out the info on this blog.

http://payloadz.com/go/sip?id=352505

For those of you who have asked for a printed version I will go ahead and honor but I can't take anymore hardcopy requests. We have had a family emergency and I am spending most of my day at a hospital. I hate to do that to you guys and if there was any other way I wouldn't have brought it up but I don't want someone waiting a month to get a calendar because of what is going on in my family right now. Andi Worthy (thingsstitched@hotmail.com) can help you with any issues if you can't get a response from me and for our friends outside the US, Alli Barrett (alliknitts@yahoo.com) can assist you. I apologize for the turn of events and again those I already commited to send one to and the raffle winners will receive their "hard" copy.

The designers have done such an awesome job and thanking them doesn't nearly say what is in my heart for these gals that continually give of themselves and have helped get this year's out to you so a million thanks to all of our contributors.

You will probably see a note about our calendar on all of our contributors websites. A special thanks to "Kay" for the awesome photos she did for us, to Flo at Peaches n Creme http://elmore-pisgah.com/ for the yarn contribution for our raffles and weekly drawings we will be having and for the folks at Signature Needlearts (https://www.signatureneedlearts.com/) for the free pair of knitting needles.

Calendar Site:
http://knittingcalendar.blogspot.com/
Personal Site:
http://janetsknittingroom.blogspot.com/

UPDATE...Calendar Purchase

Hi folks...
Starting Wednesday (see previous post) you can boggie over here and purchase your calendar. My last post has instructions and additional info on the calendar.

Thanks for your support and if you need to contact me, just send an email to: jnogle@cox.net

Update - Raffle Winners 10-12-07

I have sent out an email to announce our raffle winners and the date that the calendar goes up for sale:


Hi all…well it has been tested and everything is a go for Wednesday October 17th. Paypal is finishing up a few minor details. The below link will get you there. You can use Paypal or any of the other standard credit cards to purchase. So starting on Wednesday you can purchase your calendar. The link is

http://payloadz.com/go/sip?id=352505


The charge is $16 for a downloadable copy and $22 for a printed-delivered calendar. If you want a printed calendar, send me an email stating you are requesting a hard copy of the calendar, how many you want and the delivery address. After I receive your email I will send you an invoice for the total.


The hard copy can take up to 2 weeks (depending on the amount ordered). There will also be a group on Yahoo where the patterns can be found and if you want to be a part of that group, tell me so in an email, after you have purchased, andI will notify you when you have been added. This year’s calendar has 25 patterns, we needed to make it a manageable size. There are also some tips and with the freebies and positive changes made this year, I believe everyone will enjoy the calendar for 2008. Any corrections to the patterns will be listed in the yahoo group(2008dishclothcalendar) and on my calendar blog at:


http://knittingcalendar.blogspot.com/.

Our first “freeby” is a beautiful pattern entitled “Gift Of Time” from Sue Schaefer and can be found at the Elmore-Pisgah (Peaches & Creme) website:

http://tinyurl.com/ywspwb


The second part of our “Give-Aways” are our 6 raffles. Five (5) lucky people will receive a calendar, Peaches & Crème yarn and some stitch markers. One (1) lucky individual will receive a calendar and pair of SignatureNeedlearts needles, size 7. The Lucky raffle winners for the calendar and yarn are:

Jessiesgrl@aol.com
tis_caroline@sbcglobal.net
carolknits@yahoo.com
ba233@aol.com
lind0649@yahoo.com


The winners should contact me and give me their address (jnogle@cox.net) . The lucky raffle winner for the Calendar and pair of Needles is: chriswarner3@mindspring.com


Going forward, every week all the people who purchased a calendar for that particular week will be put in a drawing and one lucky person weekly, will win 3 skeins of yarn. Our first winner will be for the sales from October 17 – October 24th.


Thanks for your support and CONGRATULATIONS to all of our winners.

Janet Nogle
jnogle@cox.net
Calendar Site: http://knittingcalendar.blogspot.com/
Personal Site: http://janetsknittingroom.blogspot.com/

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Calendar Update-October 6th

Hi guys, I just wanted to post a short message updating everyone on the progress of our Knitting Calendar. As an update on the number of raffles, it will now be 6 instead of 5 because the great folks at Signature Needle Arts have donated a beautiful pair of knitting needles, Size 7. I own a pair of these needles and absolutely love them! They are beautiful, you get to pick the type "Points" you want, the type of "caps" you want and the length. This photo shows you the pair we will be giving away.

I asked my grandkids if they would like to select the names for the raffle's and of course they thought that was sssuucchhh a privilege, but they wanted to do it all themselves, sssooooo they are sitting here right now cutting up names from my printout I gave them (pages and pages). They saved me all that work, they think it is cool. I lucked out there for sure.

Anyway, here is a photo of what they have done to date (not much), they have only been at it for a half hour so this is going to be a long day. So what will happen next is, the contributors have to sign off on the calendar, then I will upload it and find someone to test it to make sure it works like it should, then I will send out another update telling you it is ready. If you see a button on my site for ordering the calendar and I have not annouced it is ready, DO NOT select buying the calendar just yet, it means it is in a testing mode, I will send out another notice when it is ready for purchase, we are almost there :)

Janet

jnogle@cox.net

Calendar Update

Well we are getting closer and closer...I have all the patterns formatted and just waiting for all of them to be proofread and the contributors to sign off on them and then they will be available to everyone. Some info, it has been mentioned before but I will publish it again for those that may have missed it the first time.

The cost will be $16 to download (available on line), Paypal, Visa, Mastercard...no checks or money orders this year.



OR $22 for a printed copy to be mailed to you



25 Patterns in all this year so it is a bit more manageable




There will be a Yahoo group initiated for those that prefer not to install on their harddrive. There is no charge, just let me know when you purchase the calendar if you want to be a part of the group and I will send you an invitation.



A rough calculation on when it will be available will be the end of September. A lot of work goes into one of these.



There will be some feebies associated with the calendar that we are REALLY excited about.



1. Initially there will be 5 raffle packets given away, this will include one free printed calendar, 3 skeins of yarn and 4 stitch markers. This will be done the first week it goes on sale.



2. To kick off the sale of the calendar, we will be offering one new free pattern in celebration of putting our calendar up for sale. Where can you find that pattern you ask...you can find it at our friends website, Elmore-Pisgah, better known as Peaches & Creme. They will be sponsoring all of the yarn we are giving away and these people are awesome people to do business with. I have been buying my yarn there for several years and you couldn't ask for a better company to do business with. You can see all their great yarn at http://www.elmore-pisgah.com/


3. Starting the second week there will be a raffle every week, giving away 3 skeins of yarn to someone who purchased a calendar that week. So if it is 10 or 200 people who bought calendars for any given week you will have a chance to win some yarn. All the names will be put in a hat and we will have one lucky winner of yarn. This will be done up to Christmas week. check out the yarn I received for the give-away:















Gosh when I received it I thought I had died and went to heaven...rows and rows of yarn WOOHOO!!!





We haven't shown all the photos of the patterns you will be getting in the calendar, I have given you some photos whenever I have done an update but finishing out the year, in the month of December, one of the cloths is a different looking tree:





This was a bit tedious to figure out and get it right but it turned out OK. It is Adapted from the Alternating Lace stitch – found in the “365 Stitches A Day Perpetual Calendar".

We hope you will enjoy what we have put together for you this year and I will give more updated information the first part of next week.

Janet Nogle
jnogle@cox.net

Calendar Update - September 15, 2007

I thought it was time for an update and let you see the cover for our calendar. This is a "draft" and will be finalized next week. I have been really busy trying to finish up the patterns and the calendar portion of the "Dishcloth Hangups For 2008".

What do you think a great looking calendar cover should look like? OK...What do you think a great looking "Knitting" calendar should look like? It should probably look very appealing to a knitter and of course include patterns, better yet...patterns for the home AND there should be a raffle announcing its arrival too.

Wellllll you have come to right place!

We will have a raffle kicking off the first week of presenting our great looking calendar for 2008 and the raffle will include a calendar, yarn and stitch markers. Everything you will need to start using your calendar. How does it work? All the names of people who belong to Monthly Dishcloth Group, our Calendar Overflow Patterns Group and those who asked to be put on distribution of updates are included. If you fit in that category you don't need to do anything, if you are not in either group or if you are not on distribution you will need to send me an email requesting that you be added for the drawing at jnogle@cox.net . There will be 5 lucky winners and more freebies are around the corner so stayed tuned to find out whatelse will be given away.

Our calendar draft:

Here is a photo of another dishcloth you will find inside our calendar. It is a design by Kay Gardiner who also helped in bringing all of the great photos to you. Her cloth is called "Sunflower" and it is obvious why it has that name.

Kay is co-author, with Ann Shayne, of the blog and knitting books titled MASON-DIXON KNITTING. You can find her every day at http://www.masondixonknitting.com/, yakking about her knitting passions and other stuff :) She has the best sense of humor I have ever ran across and is a delight to work with. When I grow up...I want to be just like her :) They have one of the better knitting books around, it has something in it for everyone and we hope they give us many more great books.

Another popular gal is Rhonda White, she brought us "Spa and Bath Sets to Knit". A great pattern book that we all enjoy from cloths to soap sacks to some great headbands. Right now she is located in Japan making an everlasting imprint on the folks there by conducting knitting classes. Rhonda has a website full of free patterns, you can check them out at http://www.knittingknonsense.com/

Here are some great little scrubbies she submitted for our calendar:

When the calendar is ready to be purchased I will notify everyone that it is ready and what you need to do to purchase it, it will be rolled out along with more raffle information. We look to have it ready around the 20th of September, give or take a few days.

Thanks for your interest

Janet Nogle

jnogle@cox.net