Congrats Connie!
Jan, I think that the people who saw the gallery postings probably did before they looked at this thread. I don't think many of us described the process much when we did the postings, so it was still new and fresh to click over to the tutorial.
I do know that you announced previously that you would have a warm up to the fest week, but since it fell mostly on the day before the fest started, I think maybe putting up a blank thread earlier may have helped some plan, but it did not affect me.
I most of all liked the limited time element to this. I think for this one the technique was also a limit, but one could also limit the supplies in some way instead of limiting the technique.
Again, thanks very much for hosting!