Yarn Smackdown Blog

There are 108 knitters still alive and that number is falling every day. The newly confirmed dead are:

Elphaba
Glamgirl
SockWench
The Naughty Knitter
Thinggtwo
TracyTracy

I’ve been busy mailing out dossier information for Yarn Smackdown all day, so more Sock Wars news will have to wait until tomorrow.

Great article about Sock Wars appeared in The Gazette today. Written by Carol McGraw, it is really worth checking out. I love the title - “Armed with Yarn, Socking it to ‘Em“.

The carnage continued today with another high death toll. Overnight, another 8 knitter were killed. There are now 121 alive and 1,032 dead.

The confirmed dead are:

Crimson Mother Hen the Avenger
Kassie
Lunaticsocks
Ms.
Schwesterangst
SKC Sock Knitting Chief
Tinkersmom
Tpau

I expect the carnage to continue the rest of this week as there are a lot of socks in the air this week just waiting to be delivered.

The competition for Knitter with the Most Kills is really heating up. In the lead are:

Queen Bee (7 kills)
Kimmer (6 kills)
Sharpshooter RE Agent (6 kills)

There are a couple warriors with 5 kills who may have kill number 6 before Thursday at midnight, when the Wheel of Death goofy contest of the week ends.

I’ve been trying to think of a way to make Team Canada and Team UK / Europe fun and competitive while at the same time accomodating everyone’s wishes about not having to mail across borders.

What do you guys think about Team Canada and Team UK / Europe doing a round-robin style tournament? Team Canada would only kill other Canadians, and Team UK / Europe would only kill within their own hemisphere. If you guys really dislike this idea, I will not do it. Your overall points will still count toward the overall prize on the combined leaderboard, you would just never be assigned a target outside your geographic region.

I have tried very hard to find more competitors in Canada, UK and Europe. I’ve probably emailed every yarn shop I could find over the last two weeks. Sign-ups close on Thursday if you want to do some arm-twisting of your own. If you want to kill your neighbor, you can hand-deliver your weapon. Or your local knitting guild can fling Toast at each other for points.

I am also trying to work on prizes for those specific teams. It just doesn’t seem fair that the exchange rate and shipping affects how much you win.

It has been a very busy Sock Wars weekend. 19 died over this weekend.

The confirmed dead are:

April in Paris
Blazing Needles
Charliwerks
Crayfish
Crazy4dyeing
Daniellek2tog
Gilbert the Slow
Highland Lass
JD
Knewt Knitter
Lettuceleaf
Muttonchops
Purlgurl
Robyn
Shoe
Tinylittlemama
Tracyknits
Tracysue10
Wyldturtle

Overall Numbers:

Alive: 128
Dead: 1,025

It is possible that there will be less than 100 still alive at the end of this week as there are death socks currently criss-crossing the country just waiting for the post office to deliver them.

I saw a commercial last night for Stars Wars - The Clone Wars, and it got me thinking - Sock Wars 3 really has been The Tofutsies Wars. So I made some new blog buttons. Feel free to grab them for your blog.

Another quiet day as far as deaths go. I know there are a lot of death socks headed to their targets but I am very surprised to say that today brought only one death - Yarnwalker. I was expecting a lot more deaths today. I am aware of at least 43 pairs of death socks headed toward their targets so I expect the death count will be pretty heavy over the next week.

Someone asked today if there is a prize that a dead warrior could win. Being dead, and a little creative, is the only requirement for winning the Best Death Scene Award. The winner receives 10 skeins of Tofutsies and immorality on the Sock Wars page.

Today marked the end of Eimear’s reign as Master Yoda and the beginning of Medieval Knitter’s reign as Master Yoda. Eimear did such an amazing job spreading wisdom in Yoda-isms that I’ve twisted her arm begged asked her to become a moderator of the Sock Wars group in Ravelry and to serve as a moderator of the Yarn Smackdown group.

I woke today feeling really fired up about how fun the Food Fight is going to be. So I made some new blog buttons. A small button -

A slightly larger button -

I am so proud of these buttons I’ve added them to the Yarn Smackdown Store on everything from t-shirts to a really cool coffee mug. I flipped the image for the coffee mug, so it looks like this -

Coweyes made history yesterday. She is the first to be the 1,000th warrior to be killed in Sock Wars or in any knitting competition. Alpaca Envy also made history as the assassin who killed her. For this historic achievement, both Alpaca Envy and Coweyes receive a package of goodies including a skein of Tofutsies.

Confirmed Dead are:

Kniterella
Murphy
PrincessKnitter
Strickzeug Anker
Wee Sheep

The goofy mystery event is a Food Fight!!

The phrase “You are Toast” and “Toast ‘em if you have em” will have an entirely new meaning in August when crocheters and knitters will kill each other with “Toast” during Yarn Smackdown’s Food Fight. Easy to knit or crochet, and easy to mail, “Toast” is the perfect weapon for a beginner to compete with.

Once Yarn Smackdown has ended, Toast can be made into scarves and blankets, similar to a sock yarn baby blanket.

I’ve made a flyer for yarn shops and posted it here. I’ve also created an explanation of what Yarn Smackdown is for yarn shops. It is posted here.

No Sock Wars update yesterday due to massive problems with my Yahoo email account. Today, when I was finally able to log into my email, I thought I would learn who the 1,000th knitter dead was. Nope. Not last night. Not tonigth. Only 4 people dead. A lot of people are almost dead, so it will definitely happen this week. Now to the statistics:

Today’s Dead:

Bustapurl
Knitternator
Metalliknitter
Woolmonkey

That makes 995 people dead.