I hope you’re all busily writing your lists and checking them twice, to, of course, decide which WIPs are naughty or nice… *ahem* Okay, don’t forget to link up your Q2 lists here, and I’ll never try to be poetic again ;o)
Ready for a few Q1 stats then?
- At the start we had 223 people link up.
- At the end we had 133 people link up.
- We had 435 finishes!
- That’s an average of just over 3 per person
- We had 13 awesome sponsors/prizes
HOWEVER
- 3 people linked up finishes that hadn’t linked up at the start – you need to start in order to finish ;o)
- About 5 people missed the link up at either end, as they didn’t remember the time zone (clock is at the bottom folks!)
- 2 people linked up finishes dated pre-2014 – it has to be done in this quarter!
- A number of people didn’t link back to their initial lists, making me don my Sherlock hat (with the help of a friend) – hat head does not become me!
- Several people didn’t quite get the 1 link per finish per draw entry thing – I’m going to do a tute on this to make it all easier to understand (I hope!)
That said, you all did an amazing job, I hope you gave yourselves well deserved pats on the back.
I shall be back on Friday to announce the prize winners :o)
Yes, I’ve patted myself on the back. Participating in the finish-a-long quarters really helped me to get some stuff finished!
I applaud you, like I applauded Leanne last year. So much work is involved in hosting this. We certainly don’t want to make if even more difficult for you and you shouldn’t have to put your Sherlock hat on!
That is an amazing lot of work for you! Thank you so much for all you do putting this together. It has been so fun getting all my projects checked off. I've accomplished so much more!
Great stats! Congratulations to all those who finished things. I was one of the hundred that disappeared after the first link up. Life just got in the way…
So much work. Think I called my round up post 2013but promise they were all 2014 finishes!
I *think* I managed to do everything all proper like – down to backtracking all my finishes and linking them to my original post. I'm not a fan of hat head either!
that's some impressive stats and some equally impressive work by you !! thanks for all your hard work Katy 🙂
This is SO interesting.
Oh this is a great post, I love seeing those stats! I am sorry to say that one of mine didn't link back to the original list and I am sorry, I will never do it again!
I don't envy you having to go through them all, thanks Katy 🙂
It is super nice of you to even host this FAL, but it is even more impressive at the time and detail that you have put into it. All of these quilters really made the odds of winning go up! That's a lot of finishes that came out of the closet! Thanks for your hard work.
Thank you :o)
I think you need the pat on the back, a stiff drink or maybe you need your head examining (post hat wearing) having to check all those posts!! I hope my ones were all in order!
No one likes hat head! I am pretty sure I did it right and you get a big "Hip Hip Hooray" for slogging through all that! Only 3 more times to go…:)
Not an ear hat!! Heavens!
I linked at the beginning, but not at the end… Because I didnt actually finish anything from my list :-/ maybe next time!
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Great idea to share all the statistics. Thanks so much for all your hard work at hosting this event. Hopefully Q2 will prove to be more successful with the linking up after your tutorials on the process. Good idea!
Remarkable and interesting statistics…It seems like a lot of work and time you are putting into this…You are most definitely the one that deserves all these pats on the back.:)
Thank you for doing this, it is quite motivating actually and I hope there is a prize for YOU too.:)
Add me to the missed link up. I was watching flickr and missed it. You are awesome. Can't wait to see a tutorial – Miss Rockstar
You are awesome Katy . We all appreciate the time and effort you're putting into being the Queen of the FAL.
What a great statistic! Well done (even if I am one of the not coming back as I did not finish one from the list….)
Doing a great job there Stato xxx
Can we see a picture of you in the Sherlock hat? Sorry for being sassy but I think you probably do look good in one 🙂 Thank you for all of your hard work!
Katy-you are an amazing thistle! I know I got more done than I would have if I hadn't joined. I only referred back to original post for one finish-if we were supposed to do it for more than one, I sincerely apologize. I have learned a thing or two and will do better this next quarter! Thank you so much for doing this!
Sounds like a heck of a lot of work on your part! Thanks for that but people need to pull up their socks.
That's a lot of stats and work. You could have even saved this for Random Thursday 🙂
Whew! It is alot of hard work putting together and maintaining the FALs. Thank you!!! Looking forward to your tutorial on how to link back to the original list. Thanks to the FAL, I am cooking along on some finishes already 🙂
Well, I was definitely below average having only finished 1 thing!
I was one of the non-linkers at the end. Imagine how irritated I was with myself having done the post but then forgetting to actually link up until it was too late. 🙁 Ah well. There's always Q2. :/
Thanks Katy for taking the time to run this FAL for us.
wow, that sounds like hours and hours of your time to work all this out, interesting though. thanks for running this for us
Making your job even more fun?
I don't know how you managed to do all that checking!! I hope people get better at the whole linking up/linking back thing in the next quarter!