KAL Nominations

Okay Ladies, it's time to begin with the official nominations for our next knit along! Please read these "nomination instructions" carefully so that all nominations can be considered, and so that no nominations get over-looked.

To nominate a pattern, first look in previous entries to see anybody else has "officially" nominated the same pattern. A nomination becomes "official" as of today, so any nominations posted on or after February 23rd are "officially official" (tee hee, I love the word "official"). Once you've determined that the pattern you'd like to nominate has not yet been nominated, please nominate it as a new entry with the subject "New Nomination" as your entry title. Do not nominate a pattern by leaving a comment in someone else's entry, as it will not be noticed by the nomination "officials" (tee hee), Zarah and myself.

If the pattern you like has already been nominated, please do not re-nominate it, but feel free to make comments about the pattern (whether you like it or not and why) under the existing nomination entry.

We will take nominations for 2 weeks only, so spread the word!

Something that y'all may not know is that the poll program that I used for the last KAL vote only allows 20 nominations for voting and if things go as I expect they will, we will have many more than 20 nominations. Instead of having run-off vote after run-off vote to narrow down the nominations (this could be very time consuming, and come on all we really want to do is knit, right???) I will more than likely appoint a "nomination committee" to help me narrow down the nominations to the best 20. This is why leaving comments for your favorite patterns is so important, as this will help "the committee" decide which nominations to keep and which to throw out. A few things to keep in mind about the nomination selections are:

1. If your nomination doesn't make it to the final poll, don't despair... we will have another nomination for another KAL in just a couple of months, and you can re-nominate your pattern at that time.
2. If you really like your pattern and are really bummed that it didn't make it to the final poll, knit it anyway!
3. If you really like your pattern and are really bummed that it didn't make it to the final poll and you really want to knit it with a group of other knitters, starting your own knit along is easy! Email me and I'll be glad to point you in the right direction.

Also, you may remember that several nominations didn't make it to the final poll in the last KAL due to the narrowing down process. At that time I said we would use the 6 nominations that didn't make it to the poll last time as official nominations for the next KAL, so those patterns are already on the "official nomination" list and can be seen in the side bar under "Nominated Patterns". If you have a comment regarding any of the existing nominations, please feel free to enter it as a new entry, since a previous nomination entry won't be available.

We will also update the nominations listed in the side bar as often as possible, hopefully daily but no promises ;-)

And lastly, we're still taking names for those SKC members who participated in the Picovoli KAL and will draw a winner on March 1st, since the KAL isn't officially over until the end of February. What will the winner get, you ask??? Well, how about an SKC t-shirt?

Everything clear as mud??? If not, please post questions here and I'll do my best to respond to them all.