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

[domtheknight]

I don't see any dates either... it'd be nice to have some sort of estimate! That way people could assess if it's reasonable at all for their usual knitting time.

[katieintheworld]

Well, I had to seriously dig, but on the Ravelry group page, the first stage has a post up, and it begins June 1st, and ends June 10th. So, perhaps, 10 days per pattern?

There's no actual obligation to race, though.

[wyomingnot]

Dang. 9-10 days per pattern. Do-able, and yet.

..and then it finally clicked. Tour de Fleece will be at that time. I know where my priorities lie.

So I think I'll make the donation and get the patterns.... and then not even pretend to participate because I'll be spinning. :)