Tappohommia

Last Friday I was finally able to send my victim her SockWars socks. They might get to NY this week, we'll see. I didn't get the most expensive mailing option, just the semi-expensive air mail. I used Tofutsies, and somehow got a really wide stripe on the sole instead of several thinner stripes (I did check the gauge, it was ok). I hope my victim doesn't hate them. The toe in the pattern is a bit weird, really wide and looks like a shovel. Maybe she will find some use for these (I wouldn't blame her if she redid the toe). I liked the yarn, the socks feel really soft and I would imagine they would be nice to wear.

Sain lopulta perjantaina tapposukat postiin. Detonator-malli on aika kauhea, kärjestä tuli leveä lapio ja ohjeessa oli pieniä mokia ja outouksia pitkin matkaa. Tofutsies-sukkalanka muodosti kaiken huipuksi leveän raidan kärkeen monen ohuen raidan sijasta, vaikka tiheys oli kohdallaan. Lanka kyllä tuntuu pehmeältä, ehkä teen siitä (jos löydän yhdenkin järkevän värin) itselleni sukat eri mallilla. Toivottavasti uhrini ei vihaa sukkiaan ihan hirvittävästi... tai ainakin osaa purkaa kärjen ja tehdä siitä itselleen sopivamman. Tai löytää jonkun laatikkovarpaan, jolle sukat sopivat.

Laitoin kuoreen surunvalittelumaisen joutsenkortin lisäksi pari muuta korttia ja muutaman teepussin. Niistä kuva ehkä myöhemmin, kun paketti on päässyt perille.

Distractions

I has the green thumb! See! And this is my Aloe Vera plant. The small, dying one is also some kind of an Aloe. For all this dying thing I blame my roommies, who didn't water the plants while I was in Germany. Oh well, I guess that's natural selection.

And how I got my green thumb? By dyeing. I had yarn and found some egg color and a rubber glove with a hole in it. I used turquoise and then black for the sock yarn and then dipped some gray Kamena wool into the remaining turquoise solution.

During coloring the Kamena I was a bit distracted, a cute French guy dropped in and was admiring how some people can make clothes from scratch (or sheep). I popped the hot Kamena into cold water and it felted a bit. I hope it's still usable though. Damn all cute guys...

The sock yarn turned out just like I wanted it: almost black with just a little color in it. Very Punk. The yarn was WolleRödel's 4-ply natural white sock yarn. Just like Regia, only cheaper.

And what was I supposed to be doing? Knitting my weapons for Sock Wars III and writing the damned thesis (Master's, nothing more, for heavens sake!). Oh yeah, a friend is right. PhD-comics isn't any fun when it's true... All these years in the University have made me a super good procrastinator.

Kilpavarustelua

Eräät sukkasotaan osallistuvat aikovat käyttää Tofutsieta... Kuulin, että sitä on Piikko-Pirrassa, ja kun oli asiaa siihen naapuriin, niin pakkohan siellä oli käydä. Alekortissakin oli leimoja niin, että sain kahden euron alennuksen. Sorruin siis kilpavarusteluun ja ostin violetihkoa tofutsieta sotaa varten.

Tofutsie vaikutti kyllä aika ohuelta kerällä, ja mietin, että 2,5mm:n puikot eivät välttämättä käykään. Pakko oli lähteä lankabaariin, jossa on puikkodivari. Ostin parit puikot, neuloja ja silmukanpidikkeitä.

Nyt on kilpavarusteltu! Sota alkakoon!

The other kids all have it! So I had to have it. "It" being Tofutsies for the SockWars. I bought a skein, since I got 2 euros off the price. But then I had to buy some needles as well, since Tofutsies seems quite thin.

This is war!

Tämä on sotaa, ja tässä on tuleva murha-aseeni:

This is War! And this is my weapon to be. The battle begins on Friday and I really really should finish my master's thesis before that. I have the feeling that "I couldn't write, I had to knit to kill someone" wouldn't be a good excuse...