Mystery Afghan Crochet Along Challenge

Crochet Along, Mikey
Submissions Begin April 14, 2015

Mystery Afghan Crochet Along Submissions

The Mystery Afghan Crochet Along comes to a conclusion on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 with Week 10 wrapping up our mystery clues presentation of all clues. You will have until May 14th, 2015 to submit a final picture to us via email.

Mystery Crochet Along Information

The Crochet Crowd will be collecting photos of completed mystery crochet afghan as per the instructions of the patterns provided throughout the 10 clue mystery. This is being run independently of Yarnspirations.

Due to the overwhelming numbers of who have followed the crochet along, we have increased our giveaway from one prize to three prizes which includes free yarn and more.

The Challenge

  • Complete the mystery afghan as per the instructions that were given each week.
  • You can use any colours and yarns you wish.
  • You can substitute your crochet hook but you still must follow the pattern to be fair.
  • The pattern must have a minimum of 20 squares but can be bigger. Size of afghan is irrelevant as long as you have your 20 squares and border completed.
  • There will not be any exceptions, you need to follow the instructions. Examples of creating your own borders, doing a different joining technique and/or skipping steps. The mystery pattern must be followed.

General Guidelines

  • Each completed project you do is an entry. You are welcome to submit as many completed projects as you like. If your projects are all the same colour/design, you must take a group photo to prove there is a multiple as each hat qualifies as an entry.
  • You can choose any colours you wish and you can mix and match your yarns. Project can be done in solid or mixed colours.
  • There is no advance sign up required.
  • The challenge is open to all fans of The Crochet Crowd. There are no restrictions of country of origin associated this challenge.
  • The draw at the end is random to be fair to all challengers.

Standard Guidelines

  • There is no sign up required to participate. Complete the project and submit your photo when you are done. This challenge is open to fans of The Crochet Crowd. There are no restrictions of country origin associated to our challenges.
  • You may use any yarn you wish. You may substitute your yarn for any brand or colors that you desire. You may create any color scheme
  • You may do as many projects as you wish. Each submitted project is considered a separate entry. If multiple entries are identical, a picture showing the projects together to prove their are multiple must be included with your submissions.
  • We require your photo to show the entire project so we know the entire project is done. The project photo must be showing all of the project for us to examine it’s completion. Ensure your project is completely finished with yarn tails and etc not showing. It’s like giving it out as a gift, we want to the see the photo showing as if you were gifting us the finished product. We will then know you are completely done.

This is intended for a fun community challenge only. We each are deserving of the highest praise possible for our own creativity. Let’s have fun.

How To Submit Your Photo

Submitting for the Crochet Crowd Challenge is really easy.

Please email your photo to:

MikeysHelpDesk@hotmail.com

  • Please use Subject Title: Mystery
  • You must include your name and full mailing address to qualify.
  • Attach your photo(s).

If you have forgotten to include your name and address in your email and have to resend, you must send in your photo again with your new email.

Give us a 4 day window to review and enter your photo into our challenge. Do not resubmit. We do not acknowledge the arrivals of each email, but you may check our assigned gallery for this draw to ensure we have received it. The galleries are in alphabetical order by the name you gave us.

To avoid your email from being misdirected and hitting our junk box. You must use the subject title. We are not responsible for emails that are misdirected as a result of a submission not following this procedure. To protect our servers, we delete any emails that arrive that have no subject title to prevent malware and virus programs from our systems.

Crochet Along, MikeyView The Submissions Gallery Sent In By Challengers

 

Please read challenge rules before submitting photo.
  • Photo will be checked to verify it meets the challenge requirements.
  • All photos must be submitted during the challenge time frame only to be eligible for the prize giveaways. Entries after this due date will be accepted for our gallery but there are no prize giveaways after the deadline. We are firm on deadlines and do not offer extensions to be fair to everyone who has submitted on time.
  • When you email your finished photo to us, we respect your privacy and will only post your first and last name on the picture in our gallery with the photo so we can identify the winner at the end.
  • Posting your photos to our Facebook Wall doesn’t count as an entry. You must send it to us in the form above for us to review.
  • We may feature the submitted photos in our social media such as Facebook, newsletters and/or website.
  • We will not switch the photo if you are unhappy with how it looks in the gallery, please ensure it’s the photo you definitely want featured is the only one sent.
  • Your emails are kept on file for the duration of the challenge and then deleted afterwards. We do not add your email to our newsletter lists.
  • Due to the countless technology platforms and services, we are not responsible for any of our challengers if a mobile devices or technology that isn’t compliant to being able to read our website, view our videos and/or get access to the free patterns.
  • Please verify your entry is in our gallery prior to our draw. We need up to 3 days to get your entry into our gallery. We upload it ourselves as part of our review process. If you do not see your entry, we most likely haven’t received your email. Do not wait until after the draw to check if your entry is in.
  • We are not responsible for any emails that are not delivered to us before the due date.

 

Show’n Tell on Facebook

  • Featuring on Facebook is dependent on you. We do not upload your emailed photos to Facebook. You have to do that yourself if you want to Show N Tell your creativity.

Michael Sellick

Michael Sellick is the founder of The Crochet Crowd. He teaches how to crochet using videos and loves to share crochet patterns.

47 thoughts on “Mystery Afghan Crochet Along Challenge

  • April 17, 2015 at 2:32 pm
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    Thanks for all your great efforts in producing this mystery afghan I finally learned how to read graphs, thanks to your videos. May I ask who designed the afghan? Looking forward to more challenges, learning and more fun. Happy crocheting!

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  • April 17, 2015 at 2:31 pm
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    Hi Mikey – I am to the last round but would like to add more to the boarder and make it a bit bigger before putting the last picot round on? :)

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  • April 17, 2015 at 12:17 pm
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    Thank you so much for the challenge. You were so right..the border is AWESOME!!! So glad I found your page. So glad I did the mystery challenge. THANK YOU

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  • April 17, 2015 at 9:12 am
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    I’m new here but & I did make my mystery afghan I would like to put my photo in the gallery but I do not no how I have try the address given to send it but it tells me I need to make a new email account?
    I have posted my afghan in the crochet crowed also Yarnspirations
    Could anyone could tell me the right way to send mine in thank you I had a great time making it

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  • April 16, 2015 at 2:48 pm
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    Thank you Mikey. I just finished mind on the 15th and gave it to my granddaughter for her 7th birthday. She had picked out the colors, but didn’t know it was for her. She loves the afghan! This was my very first CAL and really enjoyed learning the new stitches, that I would never had tried on my own. Thank You again Mikey!!

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  • April 15, 2015 at 11:47 pm
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    Thank you for this challenge. It was the first ever challenge I was able to participate in. Wasnt sure if I was going to be able to finish with my carpal tunnel challenges but I got it done and my son loves his blanket in Denver Broncos colors. emailed you my photos of it as well as posted on facebook. Thank you for all you do for us…..Mikey on a side note did you get my pm about your ipad issue?

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  • April 15, 2015 at 5:51 pm
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    Thank you Mikey, Dan, Yarnspirations and everyone involved in the Mystery Afghan CAL. I had a wonderful time each week anticipating the clues and then taking hook to yarn. It was a blast and I can’t wait for the next one. I am CAL addicted!

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  • April 15, 2015 at 4:02 pm
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    I really enjoy the CC all of you are so kind, friendly and helpful. I am so happy to be a member of this group. It was a challenging experience, this mystery afghan 2015, quite a learning experience and unique stitches and techniques. Thank you for including me in the challenge and thank you Mikey for all your help, encouragement and tutorials. I don’t know what us hookers would do without you.

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  • April 15, 2015 at 3:23 pm
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    Mikey, I love this it was so much fun, I have enough yarn left to add a few more rounds to the border in-between the puffy stitch and the final round of picots. Would that be okay?

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  • April 15, 2015 at 1:58 pm
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    I really appreciate all that I have learned during this project, especially learning how to read the diagram pattern instruction. I am eagerly waiting our next CAL. Thanks for all your time creating such wonderful projects.

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  • April 15, 2015 at 11:36 am
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    Hi Mikey and thank you. I am enjoying this. I look forward to the next one which I believe was a crocheted top or shawl??

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  • April 15, 2015 at 11:28 am
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    Mikey,
    I so appreciated your time and really enjoyed this CAL. Thank you for all of your hard work.

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  • April 15, 2015 at 1:06 am
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    Hi Mikey, I just wanted to know your email because it is cut off and you cannot see the end of the email.. I am in Australia and I tried sending but it won’t send so I think there must be more than the email address than what I can see.. Also do I address exactly how you have put above with capitals or are all letters lower case… Thank you so much Mikey you are a legend..

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  • April 14, 2015 at 10:14 pm
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    I really love this afghan pattern and plan on using it for many more in the future!! Thank you so much, Mikey, I really appreciate you providing this wonderful experience for me and hundreds of other crocheters.

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  • April 14, 2015 at 9:56 pm
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    I will send a picture, but only if you promise to stop counting mistakes at 10.

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  • April 14, 2015 at 9:46 pm
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    I sent in front and back photos. Is that ok?

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  • April 14, 2015 at 8:40 pm
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    I committed to donate my finished afghan for an upcoming cancer benefit as soon as it is done and photographed.
    Will that be a problem?

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  • April 14, 2015 at 8:29 pm
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    Mickey, I had a hard time with the braiding. I did braid it but not as was instructed. Should I still enter my beautiful afghan? It is braided. But since it is not as instructed, maybe I will just enjoy it myself. I had a very good time doing this project. I will start another one as soon as you give me the challenge. This was fun. I would like to thank you for making me a happy crocheter. Don’t pay any attention to those that gave you bad feelings. Look how may of us you made happy!

    Filomena Lewis

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  • April 14, 2015 at 3:31 pm
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    Mickey, I have to tell you that I really enjoyed making this afghan and hope that in the future you do another mystery afghan. I learned a lot and found it both easy and challenging. I have learned so much watching your videos. Just wanted to thank you for all you do!

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  • April 14, 2015 at 3:30 pm
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    Quick question – I did this challenge with my mom (we each made an afghan). Can I send both of our pictures in one email and have it count as 2 entries or do we each need to send you an email with our own afghan attached?

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  • April 12, 2015 at 8:50 am
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    SoTry Mickey having trouble joining could you please show how you joined the first 3 together and the again show joining corners I am lost completely

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  • April 12, 2015 at 8:42 am
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    Hiya
    This is the first time I have been able to crochet a project in my life (always been a knitter) coud not get a circle to go into a square lol – so amazed with myself – still can’t follow a pattern – but hopefully come time will – I sent for my yarn from website (Canada) though i am in Aberdeenshire, Scotland – so sure bought correct amount – but with only 1 clue left – seem to have a lot of yarn left???? Anyway thanks again for you so easy to follow video’s x

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  • April 4, 2015 at 3:46 am
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    Not sure if I will qualify as I have only done the middle cluster in half of the squares, is this acceptable or should I put clusters in the ones without?

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  • April 2, 2015 at 1:38 am
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    Is one photo of the finished afghan all you need to verify the 10 clues were made or do we need to send close ups?

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    • April 2, 2015 at 9:20 am
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      one photo… if something doesn’t look right. We will reach out to you to send further photos. 😀

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  • April 1, 2015 at 11:13 pm
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    Mikey, I have a question. Someone joined the squares together using only one color of yarn instead of the 3 like you did. Does that break the rules for the contest? I hope not because I would like to do mine that way. I’m almost done taking them apart because I just did not like it!!!

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    • April 2, 2015 at 9:21 am
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      Colours are not important… as long as we can tell it’s braiding, we are good with that.

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