A Gift of Lorna's Laces...
Hi SoS-KAL-er's,
I know this bloggy thing was my idea....and I know that I have been the one most encouraging people to rediscover and fall in love with their stashes. I have been urging restraint, delayed gratification, etc.
Perhaps some of you read the blog of Grumperina? Maybe you saw her contest last week, urging readers to send in finished knits for submission to her gallery? She offered prizes for certain mileston submissions.
Well, here is the 200th Jaywalker. I knitted it in December of 2005, before I even had a blog.
And I won a yarn-y prize! Yes, the prize is yarn -- two skeins of Lorna's Laces sock yarn. This is one of my fantasy yarns, one that I was going to purchase as my reward at the end of the summer. I have been waiting to encounter it in real life before actually purchasing it, and I just have never run across it.
It would be terribly rude of me not to accept, right? It's not like I bought the yarn, right? I just won it. What knitter in her right mind would reject Lorna's Laces just for some silly yarn diet?
Not me, friends, not me. So throw invective my way for cheating on the SoS-KAL, but tell me how many of you would have done anything differently?
So it appears that I may finish the summer with a larger sock yarn stash than expected, but oh, will it be better with the addition of Lorna's Laces.
As far as stash busting projects, my latest little stash buster was a little schmatte-kerchief-thingy for my daughter with the last little oddball of Fixation from her knee socks and the baby socks. Thus, the tally for two balls of Fixation is a pair of preschool knee socks, baby socks, and one kerchief. I am also knitting up a quick-knit mesh bag to bring down the shore for this and future shore weekends. Besides this, I am knitting Orangina (well, I am three whole rows in), a pair of Trekking socks, and a designing a baby sundress. Pics of this, and more details of the big Grumperina win on the blog.
Phew!
I know this bloggy thing was my idea....and I know that I have been the one most encouraging people to rediscover and fall in love with their stashes. I have been urging restraint, delayed gratification, etc.
Perhaps some of you read the blog of Grumperina? Maybe you saw her contest last week, urging readers to send in finished knits for submission to her gallery? She offered prizes for certain mileston submissions.
Well, here is the 200th Jaywalker. I knitted it in December of 2005, before I even had a blog.
And I won a yarn-y prize! Yes, the prize is yarn -- two skeins of Lorna's Laces sock yarn. This is one of my fantasy yarns, one that I was going to purchase as my reward at the end of the summer. I have been waiting to encounter it in real life before actually purchasing it, and I just have never run across it.
It would be terribly rude of me not to accept, right? It's not like I bought the yarn, right? I just won it. What knitter in her right mind would reject Lorna's Laces just for some silly yarn diet?
Not me, friends, not me. So throw invective my way for cheating on the SoS-KAL, but tell me how many of you would have done anything differently?
So it appears that I may finish the summer with a larger sock yarn stash than expected, but oh, will it be better with the addition of Lorna's Laces.
As far as stash busting projects, my latest little stash buster was a little schmatte-kerchief-thingy for my daughter with the last little oddball of Fixation from her knee socks and the baby socks. Thus, the tally for two balls of Fixation is a pair of preschool knee socks, baby socks, and one kerchief. I am also knitting up a quick-knit mesh bag to bring down the shore for this and future shore weekends. Besides this, I am knitting Orangina (well, I am three whole rows in), a pair of Trekking socks, and a designing a baby sundress. Pics of this, and more details of the big Grumperina win on the blog.
Phew!
posted by Liz K. at 10:20 AM
7 Comments:
i think if you hurry up and knit the lorna's laces sock yarn, then you'll have socks in your drawer instead of yarn in the stash :) yes, it would be terribly rude to not accept the yarn! lucky you!
It's not cheating. You won it! There's no cheating in winning!
CONGRATULATIONS! And lovely Jaywalkers. Prizes are definitely exempt. No worries there.
Yay you and your lovely socks and your lovely sock yarn.
I agree. Prizes or gifts shouldn't count as breaking your diet. You didn't buy it, so you aren't cheating. If you were on a food diet, and someone went to a lot of trouble to get you a birthday cake, would you refuse to eat any?
I don't think winning is cheating, either. You won fair and square!
No, no, no. Gift yarn does not count. If it does, I'll have to give back the skein of Socks that Rock I received from my friend Emmy, and I'd rather bite off my arm!
I don't think that gifts count. And that raises another question - what about using gift certificates? I got some for my birthday.
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