Indie Designers Gift-A-Long 2016 Stats & Update.....

What is Gift-A-Long? It’s a multi-designer promotion to help you kick your holiday gift-making into high gear!
The Indie Design Gift-A-Long is a 6 week long KAL/CAL of holiday gifts made from patterns designed by a rather extensive list of independent designers. From November 22, 2016 at 8:00 pm US EST to December 31, 2016 at midnight US EST there will be fun games, contests, and 8 KAL/CALs that will help you get your holiday knitting done with companionship and fun! From November 22, 2016 at 8:00 pm US EST to November 30th at 11:59pm US EST tons of indie designers will be discounting between 5 - 20 of their patterns 25% for this event. Use coupon code: giftalong2016. You can read all about the details in this post: click here or on the FAQ page in our group pages.
Once you’ve got your Gift-A-Long patterns, we encourage you to join a relevant KAL/CAL! (For instance, if it is a cowl, please join the cowl KAL/CAL.) To join, simply write a post in the KAL/CAL thread you want to join, including the pattern name you will be knitting and a link to your project page. KAL/CAL participants are eligible for lots of lovely prizes but you’ve got to post to win!
KAL/CALs will run from November 22, 2016 at 8:00 pm US EST to December 31, 2016 at midnight US EST, plenty of time to knock out all your holiday knitting and crocheting. We have tons of prizes and great conversation, plus a lot of other fun, so pull up a chair and join us!
On your mark…get set…. GIFT!!
Other things:

• Please use #giftalong2016 to tag your social media-ing!
  
• Please only share Giftalong projects in the “shared projects”
   
  There are eight different categories for projects:
  Please use these additional tags for any KAL/CAL that you make something in:
  giftalong2016head
  giftalong2016hand
  giftalong2016feet
  giftalong2016kids
  giftalong2016garments
  giftalong2016shawls
  giftalong2016neck
  giftalong2016other
  Click on the above words to see searches on those tags so you can all enjoy everyone’s creativity!
  Please note that the GAL tags should only be used on projects that are started between 8pm US EST on Tuesday November 22th & 11:59pm US EST on Saturday December 31. Projects made before this are not eligible for the GAL. Thanks!