wow wow wow

I finally counted the last few weeks of sweaters - WOW - 259!! that brings our current total to 750... but 23 more soldiers died today which makes our goal farther off.

But anyway, the sweaters are looking great! Good sizes, good colors, good yarn, good tails, good variations in textures... I'm really impressed with this lot! You guys are doing a really good job.

Just for fun, I took some pictures of the mess that is my living room. We're swimming in red sweaters. (right click on the image and select "view image" to enlarge...)


(above photo) counted, documented, and photoed - I keep all of the packaging and letters you send...


(above photo) counted, documented, waiting to be photoed

My cat, GG, really likes to help me sort the sweaters. She really... gets into.. it. haha?


:)
-nina

Life gets in the way

When I started this project, I told a friend of mine that I wanted to photograph every single sweater I received. He said to me "That will not scale". Now he is saying to me "so, when are you going to give up on taking pictures of each sweater?"

Well, I have about 200 sweaters waiting to be tallied and photographed, so it is very tempting. But I do still think it is important to photo document each sweater - it's as close as we'll get to having pictures of the soldiers.

So I guess I'm writing this note to let you know that I may be slow in processing all of the sweaters, but eventually I will catch up. Life keeps on getting in the way, but I still have every intention of seeing this project through according to my original vision.

I haven't done any real marketing of this project in a long time, but the sweaters continue to roll in. So as long as I continue to receive about 50 sweaters a week, I don't feel a need to do a lot of advertising. The Yahoo group has gotten very quiet this past month, but I think that's because everyone is busy making sweaters :)

So, keep them coming, and email me if you have any questions.
-nina