…or so they say. Today, the surviving sock warriors received an email from the Supreme Commander calling for a mail-in finish to the game. Here’s how it works: each surviving warrior mails a postcard – letter – package – whatever to the Supreme Commander (in Ireland). The winner will be drawn at random from the mail received up to and including June 21. (Um, that’s a week from tomorrow. Since I really don’t want to spend the money to express or priority ship a postcard to Ireland from here in little old Pennsylvania, I’m not sure my entry will make it there in time.) Yeah, I’m ready to be done with Sock Wars, but I’m disappointed that it’s ending this way, particularly because there are still over 300 warriors still in the game.
The good news for those who want to go on is that the organizer of Yarn Smackdown, along with the owners of SWTC, will be trying to continue the competition until the final warrior remains. If I didn’t have plans for Summer of Socks as well as other projects I want to get started on (oh, and this thing I have called a life), I would try to continue. But I’ve decided that once I receive Beagle’s SIPs (her death socks are still in transit) I will finish them up and pass them on to her target, and then I will be done with this round of Sock Wars. (Fortunately, she’s finishing up the first sock — hey, if it takes long enough for the socks to get to her, she may even get to take out her target herself! Or at the very least I will have less to knit if she doesn’t finish before the death socks arrive.)
Everyone is still expected to receive a pair of finished socks, whether from the current assassin working on them, or from a valkyrie (volunteers knitting socks for those who haven’t received any by July 31).
So, knowing that the end is near, I’m continuing with my Anklets for Meeeee! The foot is coming along nicely, but slowly (compared to my previous — and limited — sock-knitting experiences). It’s the purling, I think. Some might say the DPNs are slowing me down, but I don’t think that’s as much of a factor as the purling. And hey, I just started these Sunday afternoon, so relatively speaking it’s not necessarily going all that slow.
At some point I will post a pattern for these. (I’ve already had one request from a fellow Raveler, I’m just tickled!) I think I should do this the proper way and have the pattern test-knit first, though. Especially considering that after I wrote out my rough draft to get started on these myself, I found some pretty glaring errors in my thought process. (Those are ironed out now, though — to be confirmed pending test knitting by someone other than myself.)
So, with Sock Wars winding down now (sadly), I will focus on preparations for lots and lots of sock knitting mixed up with a little non-sock gift knitting this summer. One week from tomorrow, Summer of Socks kicks off!
