tour de sock?

[katieintheworld]

Is anyone looking at the Tour de Sock? Registration is a $7.50 donation to a Doctors Without Borders fundraiser, and you get 7 sock patterns out of the deal. The contest is to knit the socks first or best or within the deadline and earn points, but additionally you can do it as a team, and as long as everyone in the team completes one pair of socks out of the seven on time you're (as a team) in for the prize drawing.

I don't know if I'm completely committed to speed knitting as a contest, but it seems like the sponsor discounts (Miss Babs, for one!) might easily make up the registration cost!

Just the same, anyone else interested? I might be convinced to join a Dreamwidth team...

Comments

[katieintheworld]

It's tempting for me too the same way. Like, what if I could knock out the Christmas knitting early this year? That would be awesome. And knitting the smaller feet for the in-laws might mean I had an outside chance of hitting their speed knitting deadline. Once.

[domtheknight]

Now I'm reconsidering... looks like two of the patterns involve beads. I've never used them in knitting before and I'm not sure I want to learn how in the next couple weeks. I guess I could sign up, accept there's no way I can finish, and skip the beaded socks or make them without beads.