Time to Relay!

October 11, 2010

Hello, hello! I’m still here, I promise, and I have knitting news to share, but we’re in the midst of a time crisis here at Casa Esmerelda (we’re moving. Next weekend. And I have exams this week! Panic, much?)(Also, this is my last set of exams, I swear – I know it seems as though that’s pretty much all I do. At least, it seems that way to me.)

But, big news: those crazy knitter types are at it again. On October 23-24, the Knitters for a Cure will be participating in our second Relay for Life, a 24-hour team relay event to raise funds and awareness for the Cancer Council of Australia. And just like last year, we’re holding a raffle to tempt and titilate and to part you all with your money in support of a great cause. (There’s a post in why the Relay is so important to me, but that will have to wait until I’m more composed and can give the topic the weight it deserves – I’m feeling a bit manic and glib at the moment.) We raised over $4,000 last year, $1,000 from the raffle alone, thanks to you all and your generosity.

This year, rather than putting up the raffle details and prize pictures here on my blog, we have decided to use Ravelry as the forum for the raffle. All the details are in this thread (it’s free to join if you haven’t), but in essence, entry can be effected as follows (argh, too much legalese, apologies):

Step 1: Go to our team page and make a donation of $5AUD or more (about $4.50USD or £3.50). Each $5 donated gets you one entry in the raffle; this year, $20 gets you five entries, and $50 gets you twelve!

Step 2: Email us at knittersforacureATgmailDOTcom (replacing the AT and DOT with their respective symbols) and let us know how much you donated.

Step 3: Cross those fingers and hold that breathe until October 31 when the prize draw (utilising the handy-dandy Random Number Generator) takes place.

Prize donors are invited to post their prize details directly to the thread, or to pm me on Ravelry (or comment here, if you want) and let me know what you would like to donate.

Last year, there was apparently an issue with U.S. donors trying to donate through the Cancer Council website, although friends and relatives of mine donated from the UK without problems. If you would like to donate from outside Australia and have issues with the donation system on the Cancer Council website, please email the Knitters for a Cure email address and we’ll try to work something out.

To tempt you, here are my contributions to the prize pool:

Wollmeise! Twin (80/20 merino/nylon) in ‘Herzblut’