June challenge

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Permalink Reply by Dawn Ortega on May 20, 2009 at 2:31am

what a great idea. I can't wait to see all the names. This sounds like it is going to be a Summer challenge if there are that many blankets. We shall see what happens in a month.

Auntiedawn

Permalink Reply by kyla on May 20, 2009 at 2:44am

it's true, we may have to extend it out to cover the entire summer, but it depends on how well we do. I haven't seen the updated list yet myself, but I know that its pretty long.

Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on May 26, 2009 at 10:24am

Question--will you gals in S. Africa be adding the initials or us? It sounds like there's so many kids we could end up doing duplications easily, ie. 7 of us knitting squares for the same child by accident. I am totally stoked to make up enough squares to equal a blanket. I presume still 40 squares, or is it 35 now?

Permalink Reply by kyla on May 26, 2009 at 2:29pm

Kalai has a list of all the children who need blankets for 10 000 homes, and I am going to stick it up here and people can pick off the names they want. I'm going to say that we should try to do it in some sort of order, like the first person takes as many as they want (lets say three) and that would be the very first three on the list, then the second person wants two so they take the next two names down the list and so on - it may work, it may not.

we will have to be careful on this one as to not overlap too much, but if we get two or three squares for the same kid then they just get an extra square - the important thing is that all the children are covered and accounted for.

And in some cases, the initals may be the same as another child - you may have two kids with the initials A.M. and so if we have multiples of A.M. squares then we can give them to the next child down the list with that name. In the end. each child should have at least one square with their intials on it that will be included into the regular square blankets - so 34 regular squares that come in the everyday mail all the time, then the 1 initialed square made specially for that specific child.

I know that some people want to make complete blankets for a child along with the initals, but at this point it will be more important to focus just on the initial squares to get all the children accounted for in good time. I'm cooking up an idea for another challenge about doing full-sized blankets, but it may be too difficult to organize at the other end.

The plan was that the knitters/crocheters added the initials on themselves, (or a whole name if they are willing/skilled enough to do so,) and then make sure that the squares are labeled as 'the 10 000 home squares' when they are mailed off. It will of course take time for each square to reach SA and be put together, but I'm hoping not too long. This is why I'm trying to get all the initialed squares done in a short time span, so that they all arrive within maybe six weeks of each other.

and yes, its 35 squares to a blanket now - the ladies decided that they could make the squares stretch just a little bit more.

Permalink Reply by kyla on May 27, 2009 at 2:02am

Okay the list is up, Kalai put it up for me.

Permalink Reply by Dawne Smith-Sliming on June 1, 2009 at 5:34am

Are you referring to this list of names? http://www.knit-a-square.com/charity-for-children-list.html

I saw that the other day and wondered why none of the names appeared to be checked off.

Just to clarify - each of us will commit to doing a child's initials. So if the child were named Jane Doe we would do a square with a J and another with a D? Or do we try to get J.D. onto one square?

I'm new here so I want to get it right.

I love this idea/challenge!

Permalink Reply by kyla on June 1, 2009 at 2:55pm

Hello Dawne!

Check out either mine or Kalai's list, which is called 'ten thousand homes list' (we have identical copies of the same list, but we are transferring the data from her name to mine because of technical issues, so while the commenting started off in her list it will shortly continue in mine instead). you are correct in the fact that the list is more or less the same list that is on the KAS website, only Kalai's list can be updated and you can choose a child that has not yet been vouched for.

It doesn't really matter how you want to do it, you could do one square with a J and the other with the D or put them both on one square, it is up to you. Personally I was planning to put both letters on one square, but now I may change my mind because I hadn't thought of doing two squares like you are suggesting and want to try that out too. The only thing to remember is that if you choose to do each letter on a separate square, then pin or tie them together somehow just to make less work on the ladies at the other end that need to stitch them all together.

Permalink Reply by Dawne Smith-Sliming on June 1, 2009 at 5:55am

I found a site with patterns for dishcloths with initials.http://www.knittingknonsense.com/ALPHA_TABLE.htm

We'll probably have to give a good look to the overall size of the cloths and adjust the stitch count accordingly but the patterns are very clearly written. I think these patterns will work just fine.

Permalink Reply by Holly J. Pierce on June 1, 2009 at 10:32am

I checked out this site, but the photos don't show for me. I use Firefox, so perhaps I need to use I.E.? Which browser do you use, Dawne?

Permalink Reply by Dawne Smith-Sliming on June 2, 2009 at 2:56am

I'm running Safari on my iMac. I'll check with Internet Explorer at work today to see if it works for me there.

You can also access Ronda White's patterns through Ravelry. Here is the link to the letter R. Maybe you can see it there? http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knitted-r-cloth

:)

Permalink Reply by Ann de Boer on June 3, 2009 at 8:00pm

I found this link which has crochet slippers pattern at the top but if you scroll down a little there are links for the entire alphabet to crochet. Thought this might help for the initialed squares.

http://www.learn-how-to-crochet.com/crochet-slipper.html
Good squaring
Ann

Permalink Reply by Diane McTigue on June 3, 2009 at 11:05pm

Thanks for the link Ann - that looks really useful!