I'm an Oddball Knitter!

I belong to a knitting forum, which is where I mostly learned to knit. It's a great community of friendly, helpful knitters. One of the many opportunites is charity knitting, and one of the most popular are the Oddball Charity Projects.
For a while now I've been tracking some of the Oddball Blankets, but only recently felt that my knitting was good enough to be included in one (although anyone of all skill levels is invited to participate).
The Oddball Blankets are started by a lady in North Carolina who organizes them all. She knits an inch and a half, leaves the 300 stitches on the needles, and sends it to the next person on the list. Each person has two weeks to knit three inches in any color and pattern using washable worsted weight yarn. Finally it gets sent back to the original woman, who knits a border and donates it to a charity.
The blanket that I worked on was Oddball Blanket #5, and I was the fifteenth knitter. It travelled all over the country before I got it, spending time in Washington State, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia, and Syracuse, NY, among others.
Along with the blanket is a journal that each knitter writes in to commemorate her experience and to tell what yarn and pattern she used. I used Vanna's Choice in the color Honey, and used a quatrefoil eyelet pattern (the eyelests actually form diamonds, although one hole doesn't show up in the picture). The journal is given to the person who receives the charity blanket.

There are also Oddball Lapghans, Oddball Baby Blankets, and Oddball Shawls. The shawls are made in a simlar way to the blankets, but instead of going to a charity they are given to members of the knitting forum who experience a loss or crisis in their lives and need some extra support. Most projects require washable worsted weight yarn, but some are wool or sport weight or even lace weight, so there's a wide range of options.

I had a great experince with the Oddball Blanket and am now an official Oddball Knitter. Hopefully I'll be able to participate again soon. If any knitters out there would like to get involved (Annie, Alison, Mary?) let me know and we could arrange to have one at the same time so instead of mailing it we can deliver it in person.