Red Scarf Project 2007: List of Winners

What is the Red Scarf Project?

The Red Scarf Project, a project of the Orphan Foundation of America, or Orphan.org, collects scarves to send in Valentine's Day care packages to college students who have aged out of foster care. These brave young people are going it on their own and trying to improve their lives and the community by attending college. The care packages are welcome tokens of encouragement to young people who otherwise receive little to no mail. Your scarf should be soft (any material), unisex design, and approximately 60 inches long by 5 to 8 inches wide. Machine washable is a plus, but it is not absolutely necessary. Mail it to: Orphan Foundation of America The Red Scarf Project 21351 Gentry Drive Sterling, VA 20166 ..but not until September 1, 2009-December, 2009. Please read all the info in this blog. Most of your questions will be answered here. Also, please check out the Red Scarf Ravelry group. If you still have questions that remain unanswered, please email me at norma.knits@gmail.com

List of Winners

I did the drawing! Before I get to the winners' list, I must tell you how surprised I was at the outcome. I was informed of 723 scarves. Not all of them appear in the gallery, because not everyone could send in photos. I assigned each scarf a number on a Google spreadsheet, as I was notified. There were 12 prizes to award.

This morning, I used this random number generator to generate the list of winners, and the results are below.

158	504	646	553	126   593
73	521	278	374	222   677

It seems a little top-heavy, in the sense that many of the numbers are at the high end of the range. That's the funny thing about "random," isn't it? Then it turned out that No. 126 was mine. I disqualified myself, so asked the generator for another number, and it came up with Amy A.-H.'s number. Karma must be somewhat at work here, because there are THREE college students in the list, and at least one of the prize donors also won a prize. Too delicious an outcome for words.

So, without further ado, I give you the following winners and their respective prizes:

1. Karen, of Hat on Top, for her 3rd scarf offering -- Stitch markers from Melissa (Karen is also a prize donor)

2. Amy H. -- Stitch markers from Melissa

3. Susan -- Kaffe Fassett book donated by Pamela C.

4. Amy T. -- (a college student at my daughter's college, it turns out) Vermont Nut Free Chocolate

5. Heather H. -- The lovely skein of yarn from Scout's Swag

6. Sara G.-L. -- Elizabeth Zimmerman books from an anonymous donor

7. and 8. -- Trish's knitters from Michigan. Both of the numbers 504 and 521 fell within this group. I don't have the names of the individual knitters, so I am going to send the prize to Trish and let her deal with it as she sees fit. (hopefully there will not be too much fighting. The prizes are both lots of phenomenal Fyberspates yarn sent by Jennifer T.)

9. Whitney -- (a graduate student) "Here There Be Dragons" pattern and skein of Socks That Rock from Keyboard Biologist Theresa

10. Heidi from QCSNB -- Kureyon donated by Mary Lou

11. Lauren W - (another college student) Rowan Felted Tweed donated by Karen (who also was a winner in this drawing -- Karma again?)

12. Christine N. -- Lisa Souza Laceweight donated by Susan J.

I have emailed the winners and, if appropriate, the prize donors, so that addresses may be exchanged.

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