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Anything but SCARVES :0)

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Swap Coordinator:TigerLily (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Knitting  Crafts 
Number of people in swap:4
Location:International
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:October 5, 2008
Date items must be sent by:December 10, 2008
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the Knit or crochet anything but scarves swap!.

It that time of year again ! The time of year to nestle on the couch or your favorite chair with some music and the knitting needles.

REQUIREMENTS: For this swap you must create one knitted or crochet item for each partner that can be anything within your ability with the exception of a scarf. This could be a small thing or a big thing.

FOR A HEART: for a heart you can send your partners a list of the things that you can knit or crochet and ask them to choose what they would like you to knit or crochet for them. If you send them their choice you deserve a heart :0)

RATING NEWBIEWS WELOME ! otherwise, Please have a rating of 3.8 or higher for this swap. cannot angel anyone who has a 3.5 or less but if you really would kie to join and have a 3.5-3.79 rating, please send me a messag and a quick note on why you want to join and I will consider!

Happy Swapping !

Discussion

greenplant 09/26/2008 #

I'd jump right in if it was crochet too. I can knit, but my hands won't let me anymore. :-/

purplewhimsy 09/26/2008 #

I was thinking of joining until I noticed that you only give 3 weeks to hand knit an item, actually TWO items, because you have TWO swap partners!!!! That is a nearly impossible task to make 2 quality hand knit items in 3 weeks!!

Also, you are open to people with some VERY LOW ratings!! An average of 3.8 means the person has either sent a LOT of "did not meet the basic requirements of the swap" as well as some no-send ratings. 3.8 for a rating average is a very sloppy, not high quality, caring swapper on here. So, you might want to rethink your swap guidelines. Remember that people only get rated as a 1 (did NOT send anything), a 3 (sent something but it did NOT meet the basic guidelines), or a 5 (sent what the swap required to be sent).

To explain it further, a person could have a 3.8 rating who had been in 7 swaps in which one swap was rated 1 (they sent nothing), 2 swaps were rated 3 (they sent something but did not meet the basic swap requirements) and 4 swaps where they actually sent something that met the basic requirements and were rated a 5. OR, they could receive 4 ratings of 3 (did not meet basic swap requirements) and 4 ratings of 5 (met the swap requirements) and ALSO HAVE AN AVERAGE RATING OF 4.0! That's only a 50% they got it right!

I have been swaplifted in 30% of my swaps before I started really paying attention to the quality ratings of the other participants. It's just too risky to sign up for a swap where someone only has to "get it right" in 4 out of 7 or 8 swaps!

coolbaker5 09/26/2008 #

I was thinking of joining but was discouraged when I saw the rating on this swap but more so your own rating TigerLily. It is rather sad that you have 10 (1 ratings); that you didn't make an effort on those swaps. And also now not making an effort to correct the rating. So, I am wondering if I join your swap and get you as a partner would YOU flake on me?

bwvalentine 09/26/2008 #

I wish it was open to crochet :(

TigerLily 09/26/2008 #

ok i will open it to crochet :0)

TigerLily 09/26/2008 #

to reply to coolbaker5 i will say that most of the ones on my profile were give early last year. After lots of medical issues I was diagnosed with an illness and couldn't really get over it too easily. I have just returned to swap bot after almost a year hiatus and am hoping to contact my partners from that time to correct my no sends. I hope that you can all understand that and join this swap regardless it wil be lots of fun and I will not flake :0)

TigerLily 09/26/2008 #

i have extended to swap to end on Nov 5th to give evryone a good amount of time to get some quality knoitting or crocheting done :0)

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