Get out your needles and dance! The Red Scarf season is almost upon us. The OFA will take scarves from September 1-December 15, 2009. Approximately 3,500 scarves are needed.
Please remember QUALITY. This is not for beginner knitters or crocheters.
The goal is for gift-worthy tasteful unisex collegiate scarves for middle class American college students -- something they would feel proud to wear, just as if they were your own college-age son, daughter, or grandchild -- using the following guidelines:
- Soft yarns, a drapey gauge, evenly knit or crocheted (but not anything that could be interpreted "lacy")
- Does not have to be machine washable (but please include washing instructions)
- DK or light worsted weight is the preferred weight (can be fingering weight doubled)
- NO BULKY or SUPER-BULKY (it does not fit in the care package boxes)
- 5-8 inches wide
- 60-70 inches long
- RED! is the MUCH PREFERRED COLOR. Other tasteful UNISEX colors are acceptable, but RED is PREFERRED. Absolutely NO PINK or LAVENDER, and no colors that the general public might not like. Yellows, oranges, and certain shades of green are examples of what I'm talking about. Some people (me included) love those colors -- others really get turned off by them.
- NO LACE. NO FRILLS. NO ROTINI SCARVES. NO FUN FUR.
- UNISEX, please.
- No felted scarves.
- No used scarves.
Thank you, and happy knitting! Let me know how you are coming. Send me a photo of your finished scarf at the email address in the sidebar, and I will post it here.
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