Monday, December 17, 2007

Bloodiest Extreme Knitting Tournament!*

So, did we all see the article on the Sock Wars in today's Wall Street Journal?

Sock Wars requires each participant to knit a pair of socks for another
player and ship them off to the target. Players are eliminated from the contest
-- or "killed" -- when, like Ms. Williams, they receive the socks. Once they
receive their socks, participants have to ship to their assassins the pair they
were still working on for their own targets. The assassins then must finish
those socks and send them along, hoping that they don't first receive their own
killer socks from another assassin. The last assassin standing -- or sitting --
wins.

Sounds demonic and awesome. If I knit socks, I'd totally be down with this. But I don't. Yet. Socks are on the "future plans" section of my magic knitting spreadsheet, after "intarsia" and before "lace."

* Wait...there are other, less bloody extreme knitting tournaments?

2 comments:

geekgirl said...

I think this would take the term "yarn nerd" to an entirely different level! :-P

Snoop Frog ~~~@ said...

Wow. We knitters are like geeky ninjas.