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LOOK at those happy colors! I love it....but you already knew that. Dusa's husband has been warned! (by her, not me, heh-heh-heh)
Aimee has completed one, also. This guy did not want to travel to me via email, it seems. After several tries by Aimee, here it is: 
AND Sweet Figs has finished a gorgeous bamboo lacy one:
I would love to feel this scarf! Hila from NYC has completed this Irish Hiking Scarf in Knitpicks alpaca. Yummmm.
And this just in from Cynthia. One of these scarves may go to someone else, but at least one of them is for "us."
CatBookMom finished a lovely scarf. We thank you, Mom! 
A long-time reader-buddy, Jennifer, has donated some scrumptious prizes for the Red Scarf Contest, which isn't so much a contest as a drawing: Knit a scarf, tell me about it, I put your name in a hat at the end of the mailing period, I award prizes. Pretty simple, really.
Jennifer is sending some lovely skeins of Fyberspates yarn, photographed here. 
I'll let Jennifer explain in her own words:
Hi Norma! I don't know if you remember me, but you helped me figure out the description "pudding-shaped island". Now I'm writing to you from London, where I am taking a few months' break from my real life in Florida. Puddings everywhere!
The Red Scarf project was in my thoughts at Ally Pally, where I picked out the yarns for the scarf I plan to knit. I also couldn't resist getting a few skeins for you to give out as prizes ... I was looking for a UK yarn blogreaders might have heard about but not had the opportunity to try. In the end, I chose Fyberspates because a) it's hard to resist hand-dyed, b) the popularity of Knitcast and the Knitting Olympics's Team Wales makes me think knittters would like Welsh wool, and c) I recognized the name as an advertiser in one of the online magazines (she thought it must be Knitty).
Anyway, I have two lots of yarn to add to the kitty. The first 2 photos below are my attempt to capture a spring-like skein of sock yarn: 100 grams/425 meters, 75% wool + 25% polymide. The next 2 of photos do absolutely no justice to the yarn--each skein is 100 grams/134 meters of 100% Bluefaced Leicester. The colorway is so delicious that when my partner (motto: "Grey is my favorite color") saw it for the first time, he blurted out "Is that for me? Can it be my scarf?" Plus of course both prizes are embued with lovely Ally Pally vibes to promote good knitting mojo!
So knit on, people!
Oh, I'm all teary-eyed. Look what I got from Lyssa:
Hi Norma,
It's that red scarf time of year again. Since last year when you sent me some yarn to make a scarf for the project, I have graduated from college and gotten a good job (woo hoo! I can afford to buy yarn now!). I have also relocated to North Hollywood, CA. I read about the push to get Panera to sponsor, and I'd like to hold a red-scarf knitting night at the Studio City location (12131 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, CA 91604) to meet new friends locally and help out. This will be Tuesday, November 7, gathering 7pm.
If you could post this to either the red scarf blog or your main blog, I would really appreciate it! I hardly know anyone around here yet.
Thank you,
Lyssa
I'm so happy I could burst. Last year Lyssa was a student and left a comment that she didn't have any red yarn, but she'd be happy to knit up some of mine if I sent it to her, and I did and she did.
Now she's paying it forward in a very big way and is going to host a red scarf knit night at the Panera near her. (heh, before my post urging about writing Panera, she did not know there was one near her, but she found out she has one pretty close) If you're in her area, please join her for her Red Scarf Knit Night, and please let me know all about how it turns out. Pass it around!
