For helping to raise a grand total of £15,397.58 (about US $24500) for Médecins Sans Frontières for their terribly challenging work in Haiti. I’m incredibly overawed and humbled by the response to this campaign, thank you.
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Happy to help! That’s an amazing sum :) I’m glad I held off on buying all your patterns and had a chance to do it all this month!
It will be years before the country has any similarity to infrastructure again, I hope the western world will stay involved and will keep on helping.
xxx
Cat
Thank YOU ysolda!!!! Very generous of you.
What a staggering sum! Thank you for giving us the opportunity to help through your patterns! I am so happy to know that you, with our help, will be able to contribute so much to these people in their time of need.
Wow. That’s amazing. Thanks for doing this. :)
Thank you for making it so easy to do two things:
1) give more money to Médicins Sans Frontières
2) give the gift of one of your patterns to a friend who’s been going through a terribly rough patch in her life.
Why wasn’t this half this amount of attention being given to the earthquake not too long ago in Sichuan province in China? I’m just wondering.
Please note that I have indeed donated to the Haiti effort and fully support Medecins Sans Frontieres. I am merely commenting.
Isn’t it incredible the twists and turns that life brings us? What a blessing to be able to turn your amazing design talents into such a generous donation. Thanks for being an inspiration in so many ways!
Unbelievable! Well done, everyone, and thanks for giving us a great reason to give, Ysolda!
Wow that’s a staggering effort, yay for knitters!
Lilly – I really have no idea, but you got me thinking – possibly the increased media etc attention is because of the higher loss of life in Haiti vs Sichuan -170 to 200K vs 69-86K (which does not mean much.. a life is a life) and because the Chinese govt was in a much better financial position to support rebuilding and recovery of the Sichuan region compared to the Haitian govt?
That is incredible- awesome!
That is truly amazing!
Thank you for offering to do this. You did a wonderful thing.
Wow! That is a staggering amount! :) Thanks for doing this, Ysolda! :)
Ysolda, your generosity is amazing! The fact that you were able to make this happen is such a testament to your talents and the love that resides within the knitting community. Thank you for all you do and for helping to foster a sense of global community through this generous donation.
Amazing Ysolda! Wonderful! I feel proud to have taken part in your funraising.
As others said: THANK YOU
It’s tremendous that you were able to offer this great incentive to donate.
so amazing! and such a great organization. so neat that you could be used to help out!
WOW. just, WOW.
oh my, that is A LOT of money. Wonderful of you to give it away! :)
That’s an amazing amount of money! I’m glad I was able to contribute – thanks so much for making donating this easy. :)
Wow Ysolda, what a staggering amount! Well done!
Wow, impressive amount!
Very inspirational. Well done!
Isn’t that just brilliant? It’s terribly generous of you, Ysolda.
Your offer is very generous! Bless your heart! Thank you so much!
You, and all the designers who pledged a portion of their sales, are amazing. I’m proud to be a knitter.
W.O.W. That is an impressive amount! Great going.
Extraordinary and fabulous. Well done Ysolda.
That is amazing and life-affirming, Ysolda! Your kind generosity, and the generosity of every one of the knitting community who have been involved in this fund-raising campaign is hopeful and inspiring.
Lilly – thanks for your comment and for making me think. A topic to raise for discussion on Ravelry maybe?
Thank you Ysolda! What you, and all the other designers who agreed to donate a part of your proceeds, have done is incredibly inspiring!
oh my gosh!!! that is amazing!!! go knitting world!
Thank you! It was so fun to splurge on a bunch of your patterns and still feel like I was doing a good deed.
That is a staggering amount, and speaks volumes about the popularity of your patterns and your generosity. I’m delighted with the patterns that I bought and you’ve helped me to make a small donation to Haiti as well, which is brilliant.
wonderful! thank you for your great patterns and for your generous donation. :)
wow that’s amazing! it just goes to show that every little bit helps.
What an amazing contribution. You must be so pleased that your talent can inspire such results.
Yay! It was so awesome of you to do this, and I was more than thrilled to be a tiny part of it.
C’est magnifique de ta part Ysolda, you’re great !
It’s a great amount of money, and it’s very generous of you to donate it, but if it represents the 50%, it means you earned the same amount of money this month. I can’t help thinking you have benefited from this process, too, charity can be a great marketing device.
Well Done Ysolda, its a fabulous donation and I was happy to contribute by purchasing a couple of patterns myself.
I just wanted to add in your defence that *Squeamish* may want to read your earlier post where you upped your donation to 80% of all pattern sales and 50% of book sales on the back of such a good initial response to your pledge….
I understand your point Squeamish, but are you really suggesting that Ysolda shouldn’t have donated a percentage of her profits to MSF? Or do you think she should have given it all to MSF?
Many of the sales she made are ones that would have come her way later in the year – loads of people have her patterns queued up. Instead, knitters have bulk-bought patterns – so that figure represents a large number of future sales, if you see what I mean – money that would have come her way later this year had she not offered to share it with MSF. By my reckoning, Ysolda has been more generous than you seem to think. And as purlyjo says, it was 80% in the end, not 50% – though 50% is incredibly generous anyway, isn’t it?
I don’t know Ysolda, by the way, just in case anyone reading this thinks this is some sort of PR number!
Staggeringly Awesome!!! Inspiringly generous of you!! My aunt would say “You’ll have stars on your crown in heaven!!”
At the time Ysolda’s patterns were still listed on the Haiti Relief page on Ravelry, there were 84 or more pages of patterns listed. When I sorted according to most popular, almost all of Ysolda’s patterns were in the top 20 or so of all of these patterns. We LOVE Ysolda’s patterns! And people are actually knitting these designs. I was looking at the work of another designer last night, and for one pattern thousands of people had favorited it,and there were 7 (!) projects. And yet for Liesl alone, there are more than 1200 projects, of course counting only those people have taken the time to log them on Ravelry. I only hope that Ysolda’s overwhelming generosity doesn’t mean a lean time for her in the coming days because her fans have bought all the patterns we want. Surely, there are more knitters out there who haven’t yet discovered Ysolda and who will fall for her when they do…
I have had my eye on Liesl for ages so bought it now ready to knit at some point. I think it is a great way to raise money (god save us from charity singles by Simon Cowell)! I already donate £4 a month to the Red Cross but wanted to do more. I love Ysolda’s blog and Flickr and wanted to support her hard work as well as a good cause! In response to Squemish’s comments I think if Ysolda has made some money in the process is not a bad thing as working in the creative industries is hardly a profitable endeavour (I worked with perf artists for a while)! Well done Ysolda and well done knitters of the world xx
That is so amazing! And completely down to you, Ysolda for being so inspiring through your generosity. I was in such awe when you donated 80% of the profits to counter the increase in sales you were having.
Thank you Ysolda! The amount is staggering and your generous heart is amazing.
Your generousity is so appreciated!
Don’t ya love it when knitters/crocheters/fiber ppl come together! It’s amazing!
Thank you Ysolda for doing what you do. Knitters are an amazing kind of people.
I wonder what those being so critical have done to help a charity lately… hmmm… seems some people prefer to criticise than give credit to a wonderful lady who has managed to raise a significant sum of money to help others.
This is not about every other charity, there are many worthy charities and causes and we would spread ourselves thin trying to help each and every one.
Ysolda did a good thing when she could, she is not responsible to every other charity because she helped out with this one. Why don’t you go criticise the red cross for not caring about animals; or a children’s cancer charity for not caring about trafficked children? It would make the same amount of sense.
And the accusation that she did it for the extra sales is really beyond the pale, clearly she was just doing her bit to help and was quite overwhelmed with the response. I can’t imagine what sort of person would think she was being in any way selfish or self-concerned with her fund raising efforts.
You rock Ysolda, your patterns are lovely and you have a kind and generous heart. :-)
Also, not a PR number, just a fan of Ysolda’s patterns and being compassionate. :-)
i purchased a couple of patterns from you, and a few from other designers. they were for projects already in my queue, and were patterns already sitting in my cart on ravelry. the fact that the designers pledged a percentage of their proceeds spurred me to purchase them now instead of later, when i would be ready to knit the design.
buying patterns i already love was an easy way for me to support the generosity of knitting designers whose work i have admired. now i admire these designers for their philanthropy as well.
how many of us who work for an hourly wage would be willing to donate half (or more) of our earnings to such a worthwhile cause? i could not afford to do so.
thank you ysolda. for being such a good person. and such a wonderful designer that knitters want to knit what you create.
Thanks to you for this great project !
Lovely work! What a gorgeous sweater, I am going to have to finally pull out my knitting needles again someday but I read too many blogs by too many talented people and there are about a dozen crafting techniques I want to improve on. Still, as a canuck I feel knitting would be rather useful =P
thanks for sharing as always
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grats on raising so much money – thats fantastic!
I am overawed. I came back to see how you had done and am flabbergasted. In my lady like fashion, I told partner, “holy sh*t!” I am now truly curious as to the amount raised through Ravelry pattern purchases.
I purchased several of your patterns and am amazed at your talent. Knit on my lovely. I am also doing the Mountain View cardigan (another pattern purchased in support of MSF), though I rather suspect you will finish before me.
Bonjour Ysolda,
Je n’ arrive pas à saisir pourquoi vous êtes humiliée ?
par le manque de don ?
Moi, j’ ai fait ma part …je n, ai pas tous lu …mais les tricoteuses ont fait leurs part ? je ne comprends pas quand vous dites que vous êtes humiliée ???
Une admiratrice et acheteuse de vos patrons
et acheteuses de vos patrons …
excuse…google tranlate tkank you !!!