Square Swap (For Crochet/Knitting)

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by Bit

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Liz}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} How cool!! That means, with Arwen's two, we'll have eighteen squares. The raffleghan grows!

I'm so glad your arm is doing better! Hope you get your life back right away; I just hate being sidelined like that!

THis is great. I will still send the new ones so it will be big!!!!!!

[sweetcali]

OK OK OK...Yes I am guilty of late mailing but allllllll of them have been mailed out finally.

OK Ya'll can recover from shock now and eat chocolate.

sweetcali

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by sweetcali

OK OK OK...Yes I am guilty of late mailing but allllllll of them have been mailed out finally.

OK Ya'll can recover from shock now and eat chocolate.

sweetcali

butttt you are nnnnoooottttt the last oooonnnneeeee
thereeeeee areeeeee sttillllllll twoooooo moreeeeeeee outtttttttt thereeeeeee

[Bit]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY sweetcali!!

Ami, you were right, I should have said seventeen.

Sooooooooooooooooooooo... Liz? Arwen? Gonna mail squares for the raffleghan to me this week?

[amiyesiam]

sweetcali's came today

as for the other two
please

[sweetcali]

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

sweetcali's came today

as for the other two
please

YAY !!!

I hope it works out all right. ugh

sweetcali

[Bit]

I am so aggravated with the post office right now! The square I'm sending--TRYING to send!--to Sweetcali keeps coming back marked "postage due" with BIG BOLD BLACK lines marked right through the middle of the Forever stamps!! I'm going to have to go to the post office and ask what's going on; it only needs 68 cents postage and right now, it has $1.76 on it, all marked out and unusable!

Please say a prayer that I can avoid swearing at the person behind the counter when I get there tomorrow--it surely won't be their fault--but I am SO FRUSTRATED! Why did I spend the money I did on Forever stamps if they're unusable? How will I pay my bills now?

If this is the kind of postal service the country's coming to, it's no wonder that people are paying their bills by phone and online! Sheesh!

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by sweetcali

YAY !!!

I hope it works out all right. ugh

sweetcali

actually it is great!
the color matches one of the colors in the verigated yarn and it is the right size too!

[Bit]

Arwen, Liz!

Tis mid-June now... please mail me the raffleghan squares? Pretty please?

[christie]

Cali - I received yours and its lovely - thank you so much!

[Linus]

SweetCali, we got yours.

As a reminder to those who still are sending you can send both Kristen's and mine in the same envelope.

[Arwen]

Will be in the mail by Thursday or you can all beat me. I'm so sorry for my postal flakiness.

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by Arwen

Will be in the mail by Thursday or you can all beat me. I'm so sorry for my postal flakiness.

Gosh had I known there was a prize for being late I woulda sent mine out late too.

[lipstixgal]

Is it too late to join in on this fun I crochet too!! Please PM me.

[christie]

Originally Posted by lipstixgal

Is it too late to join in on this fun I crochet too!! Please PM me.

We have already finished this one, altho Bit might be still able to accept a square for the "raffleghan" - an afghan in the pink/green site colors to be donated to the Reunion raffle.

I would be up for another round if anyone is interested. I am just about finished with my latest project and well, you know what they say about idle hands!

[Bit]

Originally Posted by Arwen

Will be in the mail by Thursday or you can all beat me. I'm so sorry for my postal flakiness.

I do not beat anyone who would LIKE it.

[Bit]

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

Gosh had I known there was a prize for being late I woulda sent mine out late too.

Don't you dare, lol!!!

I think you should get a prize for being the one who kept us all on track, though!

[amiyesiam]

First off Cath did you get the box?

Nextly I have 3.5 more rows on Corkey's afghan and it will be done

the next nextly, I took Corkey to the knitting store so he could pick out a sweater pattern and yarn for the sweater I will be making him!

and
lastly
there is always a lastly
and it often isn't positive
cause ya know
if ya gotta have good news and bad news
the bad news should come last
so here goes

and lastly

I would really like the last 2 squares for the swapgan. Mine is almost all together and would like to finish it.
I really feel bad being the harpy bitch like creature that keeps coming back to rain on wonderful peoples parades. But then again I don't really feel bad I am just afraid that you won't like me cause I am not behaving like a well manored woman and keeping my mouth shut.

thank you
Me

[Bit]

{{{{{{{{{{{Ami}}}}}}}}}} Thanks for remembering to post here--I keep forgetting!!

Yes, darlin, I got the box, thank you very much!

Now, if you will be so kind as to plug your ears??

ARWEN AND LIZ

Please mail your squares to me NOW. I will be putting the raffleghan together starting Tuesday. If your squares are not here in my hot lil hannypats, they will be left out.

It would be a real shame for your love for the Planet, which you have already manifested into finished squares, to be rendered invisible simply because of timing.

Mail them now, please, so you can be part of the raffleghan!

[christie]

I have been sitting on my hands in an effort to not post about folks getting down to the wire and hearing nothing as to their progress and time frame of completion.

At the very base level, its simply disrespectful. If you have not finished the squares, why not just say, "Hey - I know this was my grand idea, but I am unable to finish the project." (Yes, Arwen, that is pointed at you because I believe when you take on a leadership role, you have the added responsibility of maintaining communication)

The silence on this thread, while you continue to post daily on others, speaks volumes. Things come up. Life happens. I have the can-see-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel home renovation in progress while I have been battling my own physical health issues and my fulltime run the world job. Cath has not just carpel tunnel and fibro but also had to navigate getting things mailed while depending on public transportation and budgetary issues. Ami, I'm sure, has a very full plate with her life. Linus and K have a full, busy life, and Cali is battling the big C. (If I missed anyone, it was not on purpose, but rather fibro brain fog this morning - I was simply using the things off the top of my head as examples of each of us having 1001 things a minute to do)

I just don't understand how folks can just blow other people off and it is so disappointing and really pisses me off. Communicating with folks is what we do here and to have others hold your feet to the fire for something we all VOLUNTEERED to be a part of, well, it just sucks.

Maybe this is a little harsh, but its not like we had unspoken expectations of one another. We all committed to something and I simply expected folks to live up to it - and if for some reason, couldn't, to have them communicate that they could no longer participate.

It doesn't make you a bad person, but I would rather you just say it ain't happening rather than passive-aggressively say it.

Its not fair to put the rest of us in the position to be the bad guys. Its not fair to Cath who has offered to put together the afghan for the Reunion raffle to be in a holding pattern just waiting to see what/when the remaining squares will arrive.

To that end, I spoke with Cath yesterday via emails and I have completed the two remaining squares she needs to finish the afghan. Since our rinky dink post office is closed until Tuesday because of the holiday, I am shooting to send her 6 additional, but at the very least, she will have the two to finish what we offered up for the raffle. This isn't me tooting my own horn or anything, but rather feeling the need for us to do what we said we would, and taking the initiative to make that happen. I refuse to be one of the "oh, you can't depend on _________ because they don't do what they say they will."

To those of you who sent out your squares, a sincere thank you for sharing part of your energy and self with me. I am honored that you chose to do so and will proudly display our efforts in our home.

Christie