Dear Dear Diary
Thursday, July 09, 2009
In case you aren't aware of the Doings of the Sock Knitting World, and most of the readers of this blog just know me, there is a major event coming soon the first week of August that is being hosted by the Yarn Harlot and Tina of Blue Moon Fiber Arts called Sock Summit. This event is new this year, and seems to be Shangrilah for them what knits socks. They have acquired for teachers simply amazing people and all of the classes sold out within 24 hours of registration opening. This is not stopping people from planning to go and hang out in the merchant area or sit around and discuss socks and knit socks and meet other sock knitters internationally.
The sheer fact that such a convention will exist means I have to carry a mop around me when I think of it, because of course I'm going to drool. Realistically, looking at my budget, it won't happen at all, and I'm comfortable with that. Really.
We have a place on Ravelry for the store and the Tsarina's Flock to discuss things related to our Sock company where I am the Tserf and general office grunt. Now, the business is going to the Sock Summit - both the Tsarina/Lisa and Gwynivar/Jen will go and run the booth and sell sock yarn and tsock kits. Naturally, they have asked if I will be there too. I have foolishly stated that if the company does $5000 in sales between TODAY, July 9, and when Gwynivar leaves for the Sock Summit (probably August 3ish), then they will take me along too. What amazed me was that Gwynivar and the Tsarina have both agreed to this.
So, while the odds are Slim to None of this happening, I'll keep you posted. For those actually interested in helping this happen, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
The sheer fact that such a convention will exist means I have to carry a mop around me when I think of it, because of course I'm going to drool. Realistically, looking at my budget, it won't happen at all, and I'm comfortable with that. Really.
We have a place on Ravelry for the store and the Tsarina's Flock to discuss things related to our Sock company where I am the Tserf and general office grunt. Now, the business is going to the Sock Summit - both the Tsarina/Lisa and Gwynivar/Jen will go and run the booth and sell sock yarn and tsock kits. Naturally, they have asked if I will be there too. I have foolishly stated that if the company does $5000 in sales between TODAY, July 9, and when Gwynivar leaves for the Sock Summit (probably August 3ish), then they will take me along too. What amazed me was that Gwynivar and the Tsarina have both agreed to this.
So, while the odds are Slim to None of this happening, I'll keep you posted. For those actually interested in helping this happen, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Comments:
Can you knit me some socks? I started looking around the internet to buy some, then realized I'd rather invest in friend-socks. I wear them with trekker-sandals in the winter, and winter is trudging closer, day by day....
Could I? Yes. They would fit perfectly and be of a wide variety of negotiable styles and colors.
Would you want to spend that much money on socks? Realistically, it takes me a week of my spare time to knit a short pair of socks for a lady, or roughly 20-25 hours of knitting time. They would come to just above your ankle by a couple of inches. I would need exact measurements. Even at minimum wage, that's close to $150-200 for a pair of socks.
I would absolutely love to do that. But I don't know if you're willing to do that. They'll probably last a year or two of constant use, machine washed and line dried, and longer if you can darn them or send them back to be darned.
Thicker socks do knit faster, and you would definitely want thicker for winter.
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Would you want to spend that much money on socks? Realistically, it takes me a week of my spare time to knit a short pair of socks for a lady, or roughly 20-25 hours of knitting time. They would come to just above your ankle by a couple of inches. I would need exact measurements. Even at minimum wage, that's close to $150-200 for a pair of socks.
I would absolutely love to do that. But I don't know if you're willing to do that. They'll probably last a year or two of constant use, machine washed and line dried, and longer if you can darn them or send them back to be darned.
Thicker socks do knit faster, and you would definitely want thicker for winter.
