Mossy Cottage Knits

She is cracking me up with the mittens on with shorts. I guess I shouldn't be laughing, as I'm sure she wishes she had long pants too. Anyway, I will officially sign up in October, but count me in for the five items. I have this swirly rainbow hat swimming in my head waiting to be realized in wool. I wish I knitted as fast as those other ladies you mentioned. However, fleece blankies I can do! (Assuming you mean the polar fleece at the store and not some felted whole-fleece arrangement...) Damn, I wish they could all come live at my house. Where we'd be taking up a collection to provide them with AC units and bathing suits! I want me some good Mongolian karma this year!

ok, so I'm teaching 3 sessions of "fashion design" (read: knitting) this term, and my goal is to get each student to make one item for dulaan. I'm not sure how much I can personally commit, but I think at least one per class, so 3.

Delurking to commit to at least 5.

(I've already finished 3.)

I love love love your Brigade idea. I'm so excited I'm actually shaking. really. Oh, and I still have a few books that could go into your Spiffy Prize pile. (I mean, like I'm really ever going to knit anything in Fair Isle!)

Hi Ryan!
I know this is an October project, and I'll happily commit to 5 new items for that month, but my own personal Dulaan goal is 52 items - 1 a week. Of course this won't actually be done week by week, as my knitting tends to go in fits of obsession, where I am consumed by one specific type of project or another... I already have something in the neighbourhood of 25 hats/mitts to send... Not sure when the other half will get done; since ceasing and desisting with the winterwear, I have mass produced ball band warshrags, mitred squares, and am now onto lace shawls, but I'm confident I will cycle back around, possibly after stocking up on a few baby sweaters (another favourite compulsion).

Hi Ryan, This is a big day. I've de-lurked on not one but two blogs. Whee!! Maybe I'll be a real knitting blogger some day.

Just a thought (and I don't have a lot of background in the knitingsphere, so bear with me), what if the commitment for five items included bringing at least one more new "Dulaan-er" to the table? 2007 will be the first year that I participate and I'm sure I could find at least one other person to participate. (There's a scarf knitting fiend of a grandmother that I know...)

My knitting could accurately termed "glacial" and I already have two, possibly three hats (Where DID that green wool hat go?)

Thank you for undertaking the coordination of such a large project!

I know I can commit to at least 5 items! I was at a big fabric warehouse yesterday and dragged home bags of fleece fabric. Can't wait to do up some of the blankets! And I have a big box of pre-bagged Dulaan kits I made up. My goal is to get them all done.

Anyone in the Portland, OR area want to start organizing our own Dulaan knit-in? Email me if you do.

I think, even with the thesis and job hunt, I can manage 5 items between now and July.

Will you be dispensing the Yarn Avalanche across the country? I need more wool to knit and I am all ready to paypal you $8.10 or whatever.

I have completed 5 pairs of mittens so far and started pair number 6. My goal is at least 30 items for Dulaan 2007 (a pair of mittens or socks = 1 item for my counting purposes). I started earlier this year since I did not want to repeat my mistake from 2006 (wait until May 23rd to start knitting (with wool) Dulaan items and then have several spells of REALLY hot and humid weather with no A/C).

I LERVE the idea of the brigade. I'll be signing up (Heck, I've already made 3.5 pr of mittens!).

Please keep the pix coming - it never fails to brighten my day to see wool-clad Mongolians on your blog. : )

I'm just lovin' that Avalanche Vest and now the Avalanche Sweater. I don't have any of the avalanche yarn, but I might just have to double-strand some Lamb's Pride Bulky just so I can knit it...or maybe it would just be one strand LP bulky and one worsted, or something like that.....

....thinking cap on.....

And I finished a scarf today!! See.. this 2007 thing can really work out well :)

I have 15 hats (infant to teen) and 2 scarves in the Dulaan box already. Even better, my new branch library started a knitting (and other fibery pursuits) group recently so I brought the Dulaan flyer. Since most of the schools around here require service hours, the knitting librarian is going to try to start a teen knitting project whereby the kids can knit on Dulaan (or red scarf) projects and the librarian will sign them off for their service hours while they sit and knit in the library. She hopes it will get a lot of interested participants since knitting beats dusting bookshelves any day!! Perhaps by October you can add "Briargate Library Teens" to the Brigade.

Not going to sign up, though I expect to surpass 5 just the same. The sweater is coming along nicely - working on the sleeves to attach to the body and work the raglan top. It's smallish, but will likely work for up to 2 years old if they're not too big. I hope to have photos of the FO in the not-too-distant future.

Thanks for more picture inspirations! When I saw the pictures you referenced in an earlier post, there was one pic of a little child sitting on the floor of an orphanage, crying his eyes out. Broke my heart! He's become my "adopted" child, and I'm going to make things for him, and the children like him--thank you so much for putting a face to Dulaan. And I lovelovelove the idea of a contest--count me in for at least 5 items made in October (over and above my original goal).

This is just the thing to get me all jazzed and inspired! Let's flood FIRE with goodies next year! :)

Hooray!

I'm totally there for 5 before the end of October. I think my mom is still making items that she didn't finish in time for July.

We can do it!

Hey Ryan - Sign me up for five projects. I have a bunch of them that didn't make it into the Dulaan 2006 box, so I may already have five or not, but I will by the deadline.

Emily

I still have some of that "fiber that was given to me for free, as long as the yarn spun from it was used for charity" lurking here. I'm happy to pass that along to area spinners would are willing to spin up stuff to use for Dulaan.

I knit, but not at a speed that gets anything done in a hurry, however I'm wondering if there is a need for sweatpants and where one can send them? I sew for a living and it doesn't take long to whip up some pants. I'm sure there are others out there who would make the bottom half!
Would the Dulaan project take sweatpants too?

hey Ryan! :)

So good to talk to you the other day. I'll be tossing the stash to make some things for Dulaan. How can I resist?

Me, too. I have one done already and will promise 5 by Octobers end.

I was feeling right smug about myself because I have 7 hats done already -- until I got to the comment from the person with 25 items done. Way to smack me down when I get uppity, ma'm.

Alright, people, this is a quiz: what is the very best way, perhaps the only reliable way, to raise oneself/one's family/one's country out of desperate poverty? Yes? You over in the corner? Why, that's right -- education! When I read the part in your post about how the kids can't go to school unless they are warmly dressed, my heart ached for them. The school officials probably have good reasons for this (do I remember correctly that the schools may not be very well heated?) but it still seems kinda bass-ackwards to me. Anyway, this Dulaan project can do far more than just keep little kids from freezing their cute li'l asses off, it can help their whole country get a leg up. Ryan, you have no idea how much good you are doing.

Sorry to be hogging the comments but I need to add one more thing (don't we all). The sweatpants idea? I have lived in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin all my life, the place where it gets right cold in the winter although not quite as cold as Mongolia (think -20F rather than -40F). I can tell you unequivocally that regular sweatpants are not warm enough for outdoor wear in those temperatures. If they were made of 2 or more layers of fabric, however, I think they might be quite useful and welcome. If they also had an outside nylon shell, that would be even better because then they would be windproof. I'd be willing to make a couple-three pair if F.I.R.E. says they want them.

OK, I have a knitted coat that I made for me, that really is too warm. HA! I'll send it to Mongolia. And I started a (another) Cottage Creations Lillie jacket for a baby for stash reduction purposes, so that can go to Mongolia, too. I'll think of three other things before it's over, I'm sure. So, I'm in. I'll post progress on my blog. Thanks for organizing this.

Please consider me committed to 5 items for the Dulaan 2007 project. I like Holly's idea (see in comments above) of bringing another person to the project. I'll be working on that also.
The pictures are very motivating. Thanks for organizing this for us.