Comments on: Truth from the Sock Summit*

By: mamie

mamie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:50:50 +0000

i meant 6000. double gawd.

By: mamie

mamie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:50:34 +0000

every one of those is a gem. 600 pounds. gawd.

By: whitney

whitney — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:08:45 +0000

Thanks for sharing these!

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:48:07 +0000

Hi – I kept checking this blog over the last couple of weeks wondering ‘is Sarah going to Sock Summit??’ It seemed that you must be, but seeing no posts ahead of time about it, I wasn’t sure… very glad to read the quotes, and not surprised at all to hear that it was absolutely wonderful!

I’ve been visiting my one of my oldest/best friends in Ashland this week, who knew how to knit *a bit.* I helped her get back to it, and she started a dish cloth yesterday and finished it tonight, and I’ve helped start a hat that she wants to make for a young friend/former student – she’s a first grade teacher… so satisfying to sit visiting together and watch the project grow on her needles. As soon as she finished the dishcloth, she began a 2nd one, so that she ‘wouldn’t forget’ how to start one.

Re: 6,000 pounds of stash – well, figuring that most skeins/balls are either 2 oz or 4 oz, let’s say the average weight is 3 oz. Which means there’s about 5 skeins to the pound. Which means that 6,000 pounds of stash is approximately – wait for it – 30,000 skeins. That’s a lot of yarn! If you knit one of those average 3 oz. skeins every single day, day in and day out, that stash would last for 82 years…

By: Sock Summit Report « Traveller’s Yarn

Sock Summit Report « Traveller’s Yarn — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:56:23 +0000

[...] for the rest of the Sock Summit. I finally got to knit a few more rows on my Ene’s Scarf. Blue Garter (who I got to meet again!) has summarised the best quotes from the Luminary Panel, so that I [...]

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:04:10 +0000

So good to catch up with you again at the Sock Summit. I was so impressed with Barbara Walker’s quote – I’ve long been a believer in the necessity of work for humans (whether paid or unpaid). Judith MacKenzie McCuin has more fiber in her stash, than I do in my business!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:58:29 +0000

Lovely! I especially like the first, as my body is so opposed to idle hands that my hands, when I was a child, would shred things if I didn’t occupy them. I had no idea I was doing it, so it really felt quite odd to look down and find the sad remains of a paper napkin in my lap or a crumpled tissue or something. Our bodies want to work.

By: Seanna Lea

Seanna Lea — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:23:33 +0000

Wow. Part of me would love a stash that weighed 6000 pounds, and the rest of me is wondering what I would do when I wanted to start a new project. It’s already overwhelming, and I don’t tend to have sweater lots of yarn.

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:39:45 +0000

I think you pocked the best quotes of the whole summit to print here! I hope you had a great time… I wanted to be a knitting conference for the rest of my life, it was such a blast!! Now back to real life…

By: Wendolene

Wendolene — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:59:55 +0000

Coolness. Wish I could’ve been there too!