…and here they are. My finished weapon in the all out fight that is Sock Wars II

Yarn - Artesano Alpaca Inca Cloud shade 37 Royal Blue
Needles - 3.25mm Brittany 5″ birch dpn’s
Pattern - Scar

The pattern was really nice to knit - it’s a ribbed pattern with a stranded pattern stitch which is caught every four rows on either side. Here’s a close up

Now, for anyone who doesn’t know what Sock Wars is - it’s an assassination game in which the weapon is a pair of socks. Yesterday (well actually I got mine late Friday night) all the combatants were sent a secret dossier containing the name and address of our target and the pattern we have to follow for the socks. Everyone starts knitting, we all knit the same pattern, and as soon as you’re done you mail them off to your target, once received they’re dead. They then mail their dossier and  the socks they are knitting back to you and this then becomes your new target. You keep doing this until you receive your own bullet from your assassin.

Now, I have no idea who my assassin is, where they are or how much progress they have made so I’m just hoping my socks hit their target and I get my new target before I get hit myself!

When I received my dossier it was a bit of a surprise as the name of my target was not unfamiliar to me, in fact I know that it’s someone who reads this blog. So, if you’re reading this and you are in Sock Wars then these lovely Royal Blue Alpaca socks were dropped into the post box on the corner of my road at 10am this morning and should have been collected by the post man at noon so they are on their way…..be afraid, be very afraid!

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