• Each participant must register using the Splash Pad Sign Up Form in order to enter for prizes.
  • Eligible crafts: knitting, machine knitting*, crochet, spinning.
  • KAL Dates: June 1 - July 31, 2025 (start & finish times based on your local time)
  • WIPs (works in progress) are eligible if finished during KAL; you must do some knitting/crochet/spinning on them for it to count; not just finishing.
  • To win prizes, craft something that’s 50-200 grams. Meeting the 50g criteria will earn you an entry for prizes.  You’ll earn additional entries for using more yarn (up 200g) and for using sponsor products. See below for details
  • Finished Object- 50 grams- 1 entry 
  • Finished Object- 100 grams- 1 additional entry
  • Finished Object- 150 grams- 1 additional entry
  • Finished Object- 200 grams- 1 additional entry
  • Use of Snack Shack* Product- 1 additional entry
  • Use of Pro Shop Product- 2 additional entries
  • Use of Pro Shop Sponsor Exclusive Product- 3 additional entries

* Note: For Snack Shack Sponsor Fitness with Mara, you’ll get 1 entry for each workout you do with Fitness by Mara (max of 8 per person during the MAL)

  • In 2025, we’re expanding the Splash Pad fun to include some newly designed “Cabanas.” We hope you’ll pop into these smaller chat threads that are organized by project type. You’re welcome to chat in one or more of these groups to see what other similar item(s) folks are making, get ideas and inspiration, or just find a smaller, cozier group to chat with. Move around among Cabanas as you like and have some fun with your friends there. The themes for the 2025 Cabanas are:
  • Feet (socks, slippers…)
  • Hands (mittens, mitts, gloves…)
  • Head (hats, ear warmers, headbands…)
  • Home (dishies, koozies, blankets, etc. Also use this category for skeins of handspun yarn)
  • Shoulders (shawls, cowls, wraps…)
  • Tops (tees, tanks, sweaters...)
  • Toys (plush toys, chickens, gnomes, games...)
  • WIPs - if your item was started before 6/1, enter it in this Cabana category even though it also matches another category.
  • When FOs are submitted, points will tally for Cabanas as well as Participants.  These results can be found real-time on the Cabana Leaderboard, and should lead to some fun rivalries throughout the summer.

Fine Print:

  • Larger Projects are eligible but if you use more than 200 grams you do not get additional entries. Max entries for grams used is 4.
  • Knitting Machines: Enter half the total grams you used on the Form.
  • Small items: If you are making a set of something (6 washcloths to give as a gift),  you may count that group of items as 1 FO and claim entries for the entire project. If you choose to do that, you may not then also count those FOs separately.
  • You may use a sponsor product more than once (i.e. a project bag) but the duration of the projects for which you’re using it must not overlap.
  • For stitch markers, the max entries per project is 2 (1 stitch marker set + 1 progress keeper).
  • Mini skeins: max of 5 mini skeins per maker/dyer per project.
  • Remember you don’t have to weigh things for this MAL. If it’s close to 50g enter 50g on the form.  Options on the Celebration Form are:
  • 50g (30 - 69g used)
  • 100g (70 - 129g used)
  • 150g (130 - 169g used)
  • 200g (170g or greater used)

For All the Information You Need:

How to Enter for Prizes:

  • Your Participant ID
  • Project Name
  • Completion Date
  • Verification Link: Enter URL to Ravelry Project Page or Instagram post for this project.
  • IMPORTANT: Please create individual project pages or IG posts for each project, or they will be identified by the system as duplicate entries and may be disqualified.  
  • Grams Used: Select 50, 100, 150 or 200g  (as detailed in the Fine Print above)
  • Number of Sponsor Products Used (by type - Snack Shack, Pro Shop (non-exclusive) and Pro Shop Exclusive.
  • Cabana: For each finished project, list which Cabana category it falls under. Only choose one.
  • Feet (socks, slippers…)
  • Hands (mittens, mitts, gloves…)
  • Head (hats, ear warmers, headbands…)
  • Home (dishies, koozies, blankets, etc. Also use this category for skeins of handspun yarn)
  • Shoulders (shawls, cowls, wraps…)
  • Tops (tees, tanks, sweaters...)
  • Toys (plush toys, gnomes, games...)
  • WIPs - if your item was started before 6/1, enter it in this Cabana category even though it also matches another category.

  • All projects must be finished by the end of the day (your time) 7/31/25.  All entries must be submitted via the 2025 Summer Celebration Form by Tuesday 8/5/25.
  • All entries will be verified and updated (as necessary) by the Lifeguards.

For Workouts with Fitness by Mara:

  • Enter Date of the workout
  • Verification Link: Enter URL to Ravelry or Instagram post for this workout.
  • Reminder: Max of 8 per person during the MAL

Check out your Entries

Click here to view your stats on the Splash Pad Party Stats Sheet 

  • If you submitted a Project for entries and realized you made an error, please fill out this Support Form and a Lifeguard will contact you to correct it. 

We will post a Summer Celebration Thread in the Ravelry Group once the event begins. In previous years, this was where FOs were posted for entries. This summer, come share AND feel free to chat with your friends about their projects too!

Participation & Other Ways to Win

  • We will pull random winners from:
  • Those who post on Instagram using #SplashPadParty25.
  • The Poolside Chat thread in the Down Cellar Studio Ravelry Group.
  • The Cabana chat threads.

Other ways to stay in the loop

Questions: Check out the Ravelry  Questions Thread in the Down Cellar Studio Podcast Ravelry Group  or email Jen with questions- downcellarstudio@gmail.com