Re: [piecepack] piecepack trophy cloth -- your help requested

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

Encouraged by the generosity of the list (thanks, Michael and David!),
I called the award company again today to confirm the prices they gave
me back in September.  Today they quoted me an approximate price that
was significantly lower than what I remember their quoting me then.
They need to double-check with the "digitiser" (the person who turns
the piecepack graphics we provide into a pattern of stitches for the
embroidery machine), but the good news is we may be getting within
spitting distance of the price of the trophy cloth.

They're supposed to email me again with a more or less final price
tomorrow.  I will keep you all updated.

Ron

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:39:54AM -0800, Michael Schoessow wrote:
> Re-reading the part of my message to Ron that he referenced in this post, it
> occurs to me that it sounds a bit like I'm being critical of James, but that
> is not the case. When I first heard mention of the trophy cloth after the
> first game design contest closed I assumed that the cloth was complete as
> described and that it had originated with James. When Ron e-mailed me
> describing the situation I was surprised to discover that the trophy cloth
> was still a "work in progress".

FWIW, Mike, I can't say how James read your message, but that's
certainly how I read it when you sent it to me, which is why I thought
there was no harm in including it in my forward to the list.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Hale-Evans [mailto:rwhe@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:57 PM
> To: piecepack mailing list
> Subject: [piecepack] piecepack trophy cloth -- your help requested

<snip> 

> I wrote about this problem recently to Michael Schoessow, judge of the
> current contest.  He seemed to like option #1, community donations.
> 
> > I didn't realize that James had not done the trophy cloth himself. I
> > can certainly appreciate that you don't wish to spend $300 to get
> > the cloth embroidered. I will contribute $100 if two or more other
> > people can be found to donate the remainder. If that doesn't work,
> > the painting option sounds interesting but I don't have a good feel
> > for how that would work. Would this be kind of like a hand-painted
> > silk-screen application? If so, that sounds not so bad because silk
> > screens can look nice and are durable. If this is the route chosen,
> > it may be worthwhile to look into what kind of ink is used for silk
> > screening. The third option you mention is a little less attractive
> > to me than the first two because the contest rules, which are posted
> > in quite a few spots, specifically mention a cloth. On the other
> > hand a lot of people might like a plaque more than a cloth, although
> > it seems more natural somehow to pass a cloth than to pass a plaque.
> 
> So the best option so far seems to be community donations.  Mike can
> donate $100, and Marty and I can donate _something_ (we don't know how
> much yet).  Can the community get together and donate a substantial
> portion of the remainder?

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