Posts Tagged ‘sock_madness’
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In 2008, competitions, sock madness, socks on April 5, 2008 at 10:09 am
The second round of Sock Madness went fast. Way too fast by half. In a week where I moved my out of my home away from home (a small 10′x10′ bedroom) to a much more spacious apartment, I tried to faithfully knit on my socks, whilst furnishing the new place with things ferried from home number one. It didn’t work. I got about half a repeat into the socks before I got home last night where I saw, to my dismay, that the Tennessee Vols group had 19 completed pairs. Even had I stayed up ALL night, there was no way in.
These aren’t my favorite pair of socks so far, even though I find the stitch pattern intriguing, so I’m going to toss these and participate at will. And I’m going to save that Sweet Georgia Concord for something else. I do have the coveted laceweight yarn for whatever round they are in, so I’m certainly going to be knitting that pair of socks. But now I can go back to finishing some other projects and having a more normal knitting life.
I think I knew I was going to be out earlier this week when I thought, ‘Crap, this is keeping me from working on x, y & z.’
Picture to come soon.
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In 2008, competitions, finished 2008, knitting, sock madness, sock yarn on March 19, 2008 at 4:12 pm
On the downside, I’m home sick. I hate having a sore throat. I think tomorrow I’m just going to take whatever sudafed crud I can find (I’m NOT supposed to take this stuff for a variety of reasons) and go back to work. I’m movied out, bored and probably just have another sinus infection. Of course, my doctor is located near my job anyway. Read the rest of this entry »
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In competitions, knitting, sock madness on March 15, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I finished the heel flap of my Zombie Sock for Sock Madness 2 last night and now am staring directly into the maw of the foot.
These are surfer zombies by the way. As in, “Dude, I’m totally dead.”
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In 2008, competitions, knitting, sock madness, socks on March 13, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I’m finding the Zombie pattern that I’m knitting as part of Sock Madness completely hypnotic. I guess the zombie state that one gets into after knitting for several hours straight is a lot like being hypnotized. Or maybe it’s the yarn. Or how it looks in this pattern. Of course my socks look more like rippling waves than a zombie, unless the zombie is pretty fresh and just bruised. I tinked out 8 rows, so I feel that way myself. Maybe the pattern will turn me into a knitting zombie.
After 3 1/2 hrs of knitting and tinking, I just finished pattern repeat #2, row 8. More tomorrow night after work most likely. Though maybe tomorrow lunch will be one of those longer lunch breaks. Good thing I’m being sent home early on a delivery mission!
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In 2008, competitions, knitting, knitting shops, oregon, sock madness, sock yarn, socks on March 13, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Yep, Sock Madness started this afternoon. So I’m knitting as much as I can in between work and commuting home, which means I’ve done all of 7 rows of ribbing. Here’s a pic.
The yarn is Blue Brick Wall by Blue Moon Fiber Arts. My husband bought it for me this weekend at Twisted. That makes two shops in Oregon (other than the company itself and for that you have to place an online order) that I know of that carry Blue Moon. The other is the Farmhouse Knit Shop, which is in a Portland suburb (Beaverton). So I guess Twisted can claim that they are the only shop in Portland that carries Blue Moon. Regardless, they have a lot of it in right now and they’ve had it in for two weeks. I can only imagine what they must have gotten initially.
I know I owe you posts. They are coming 
. Now back to knitting those socks! I really want to make it out of Round 1 again this year and I musn’t let the fact that the new Knitty is up distract me. Nor that I want to tell you that I got into the 3-month version of Scout’s Swag Sock Club, which will start in October.
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In 2008, competitions, sock madness on March 2, 2008 at 12:00 am
I’m getting prepared for Sock Madness. I really hope to make it past round two this year. And maybe even be a first knitter in a bracket (highly unlikely what with my lack of knitting speed and job). I need to have all the right yarns. I am enjoying going through my stash and trying to pick out
I seem to be in the UConnCastons Tennesse Twisted Knitters Division. I realized I was in there twice and had them remove the one with my real name on it.
So the yarn requirements look like this. And next to them I’m dropping in a photo of what I think I might use. I haven’t seen the patterns yet, so who knows what I’ll actually pick. It’s fun dreaming though.
| Yarn |
Needles |
Gauge |
A |
About 360 yards of fingering weight yarn – Louet Gems Merino/Claudia’s Handpaint |
US Size 1 |
8.5 st /inch |
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In 2007, competitions, finished 2007, socks, swaps, travel, winter gear on May 24, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I’m supposed to be asleep. That is, it’s 10:32 PM and my plan departs Minneapolis-St. Paul at 6:40 AM so our alarm clock is set for 3:00 AM. I’m packed, but I have essays to write for a job I really really want, so I’ve been playing with Ravelry. It’s loads of fun. I’m an administrator now, so I’m helping to clean up patterns. My application is due next Friday. I am now, once again, the Alumni Class Vice-President, which means I lost the election again. I think that’s pretty funny. What this means is, four years from now, I will be going to reunion, working the tables and helping with whatever needs doing. I’m introducing our cluster (classes of ‘96, ‘97 and ‘98) speaker, David Orr, which is a bit of an intimidating job, but at least his CV makes it easy on me. Hey, did anyone else attend a college with it’s own disco? Oberlin has one in the student center, so I’ll be dancing to early 80’s music on Saturday. At the risk of embarrassing myself completely, I made the last minute suggestion that everyone dress early 80’s to early 80’s. This got published at the very very last minute and so I’ve had to pack an extra long-sleeved button down white shirt and I’ll have to stop for some hair spray, just-in-case.
I started a second Chevron Scarf. I frogged my RPM socks and my Mad-tini socks. I’ve come to realize that I’m just not going to wear socks made with medium-weight STR. I’m not sure how I feel about the color combinations, but I’m enjoying working on the scarf. Read the rest of this entry »
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In bags and containers, competitions, finished 2007, food, knitting shops, minnesota, sock yarn, stash files on March 6, 2007 at 12:38 am
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In 2007, competitions, knitting on January 21, 2007 at 6:21 pm
I admit I didn’t get very far with Head Games. I got wrapped up in my CPH Hoodie project and so had barely done anything when my new hat appeared. It’s great. It’s a bit deep for me, (so it’s rolled up so you can’t see the cable properly) but someday I’ll fix it. The yarn is very soft. It’s Classic Elite Yarns Waterlilly and 100% merino. Thanks to Nephele (Liz) for doing such a great job. There’s always Sock Madness and KnitOff with which I could redeem myself.
There was some snow today, so I missed my LYS knitting group. I’m so sad, but my cold is still pretty bad so being at home is probably good for me.
