Join the 2021 Holiday Yarny Gift Exchange
Join the Yarnover Truck’s 2021 Holiday Yarny Gift Exchange! We’re starting earlier this year to help beat the rush of shipping holiday gifts! Hopefully this will ensure that everyone receives their gift in time for our Zoom Unwrap Party on December 16th! Keep reading for all the details!
Just like last time, you’ll be randomly assigned to another exchange participant to send a gift of yarn, and then you’ll receive a gift of yarn from a fellow yarn lover! Then we’ll all gather together via Zoom for our UnWrap Party to see what we received! Doesn’t that sound like fun?!?!
Here's How It Works
This is a gift exchange for YARN. If you want to include fun related items that’s great, but all gifts MUST include at least one skein of yarn. The value of the yarn gift should be between $30 – $40 (USD).
Please try and match this amount as best you can so we’re all getting a gift of similar value. Again, your gift MUST include at least one skein of yarn and it CAN include more than just yarn if you choose, but please don’t exceed $40 max for your total. Again, it MUST include at least one skein of yarn.
It doesn’t have to be new yarns; you’re more than welcome to do a little stash diving for your gift. Or feel free to buy something from the Truck – we’d be happy to send your gift for you. All yarn must be in new condition (original packaging with all tags intact) and should have been kept in a smoke-free/pet-free area.
For the Yarnover Truck’s 2021 Holiday Yarny Gift Exchange, everyone who signs up to take part MUST attend and participate in our Gift Exchange via Zoom on Thursday, December 16th. We’ll gather that evening at 6pm (Pacific time) to unwrap and show off our gifts together!
If you are not able to join us for the Zoom, please DO NOT sign up. We’ve had several people who did not attend the Zoom party in the past and did not send acknowledgements of gift received and this left several people let down. We want to avoid this for our Yarnover Truck’s 2021 Holiday Yarny Gift Exchange!
Key Dates
Here are the key dates timeline for our 2021 Holiday Yarny Gift Exchange:
- Sign-ups start on Wednesday, November 3rd and will be open until Wednesday, November 17th. Be sure to type your email address correctly and PLEASE be sure to include your mailing address when you sign up!
- We’ll draw names and do the pairings on Thursday, November 18th
- After the draw, you’ll receive an email with the name & address of your gift recipient (this is why it’s important to include your address when you sign up).
- Next answer the Ice Ice Breaker Questions and Create your Wishlist. (Keep reading for more on how to do this)
- Go shopping or stash dive to put together your gift.
- Please be sure to send all gifts out no later than Tuesday, November 30th. Everyone needs to have their gift in time for our party!
- Plan to join us on Thursday, December 16th for a fun Unwrap Party via Zoom! (We’ll send out the link and details to all exchange participants one week before the party.)
Gift Ideas and Wish Lists
We’re using the Elfster App & Website to help coordinate our Yarnover Truck 2021 Holiday Yarny Exchange. When you get the page we’ve created for our exchange (Click HERE), the first thing to do is to sign-up!
Next, please answer the two Ice Breaker questions we’ve asked of everyone regarding allergies and color choices.
Then we recommend everyone create a Wish List to help your gift giver find the right thing just for you. Just click Add to Wishlist from the sign-up page, or click on Wishlists in the Main Menu along the top.
You’ll see links to several major retailers because this site gets a lot of use for generic, non-yarn specific gift exchanges. Here’s how to add yarny items from either the Yarnover Truck Online Shop or from other vendors who sell yarns.
When you get to the Wishlist page, it looks like the image above. The big companies are included toward the bottom of the page, but if you click the “+ More Options” (in the red circle above) another smaller window will open (see the next image). Here you can cut and paste the URL from items in our Online Shop or any other website with the yarny item you want to add.
When you’re adding items to your Wishlist or looking for gifts to send, please try and match the $30-40 value as best you can so we’re all getting a gift of similar value. Please remember that ALL gifts MUST include yarn; you can definitely include fun extra, related to our craft, but please don’t exceed the $40 max for your total.
You can definitely buy something from the Truck to send, and we are happy to send it for you! When you place your order you’ll be able to include a different mailing address. This is where you should include the gift recipient’s name and address. Just add a note when you’re checking out in to let us know you want this sent as part of the Gift Exchange.
We’ll include a special note from you and add a sticker to the outside of the package so the recipient knows to keep it until our Gift Exchange Zoom Party on Thursday, December 16th! You can also send stash yarn as long as it is in new condition (original packaging with all tags intact) and has been kept in a smoke-free/pet-free area.
This is going to be so much fun and will hopefully bring joy to all of us!
