Sock Wars is over (for me anyways- there are loads of lucky warriors still knitting!). My target died the day before I died- so all in all it was a resounding success. My wrist starting aching from something or other about 3 days in forcing me to take a couple of days off… so I’m hoping next year I’ll get two kills in! Maybe more, since I’ll hopefully be shipping from Korea- and postage is a major major factor in this game.
My assasin Vaedri killed me with a gorgeous pair of socks in Lana Grossa Meilenweit Mega Boots Stretch:
I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about the pattern, however they turned out looking great! And the colours are just amazing. I couldn’t think of a better way to die.
My weapons were knit in tofutsies, in a pretty blue-purple colour and were quite the adventure on their own. I had a small problem with the cables, and had to drop stitches back for 3 repeats of the cable- approxmiately 5 inches.
Which required an emergency run to the craft store to get a tiny crochet hook and hours of patiently rebuilding cables stitch by stitch. I, of course, had to do this not once but three times for three different strands of cables. Which I think may very well have been the root of my aching wrist.
But finally! They were done. And looked quite pretty.
I assure you my target didn’t have ginormous feet, they just look really huge because the ribbing pulls the top bit in. (I measured and re-measured and got my mum to try them on on her size 7′s).
And that was Sock Wars. It was a blast!
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