The weirdness in the “knitting-scene” continue to amaze me. This time I came across a story about a knitting tournament called “Sock Wars“.
It was started by 31 year old woman called Julie Gardner from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was inspired by a phenomenon called StreetWars where people use mock weapons to fight and assassinate each other.
Sock Wars is a bit different by that the competitors use knitting to assassinate other knitters!?! Each contestant are given an original sock pattern that they must complete as fast as possible and then mail to another contestant. The knitter who completes the pair of socks first wins while the loser lays in a pool of blood and must send the unfinished socks to the knitter who assassinated her/him.
The knitter who last stands is the winner and receive yarn worth $500 and much glory.

This is actually the third tournament of this (crazy) kind. Maybe I should sign up if there is ever a fourth Sock Wars, but I’m not a fast knitter so I would probably die in the first round
The deadline for sending in your application for participating was May 3rd so I’m a bit late with this piece of news from the crazy knitting world. The tournament starts May 9th.
Good luck to all the assassinate-knitters out there!