SockTart

Allrighty.  Last night was Night #1 of our new Karazhan group.  For those who are not partaking of the Crack that is World of Warcraft, Karazhan is a 10-man dungeon (aka “instance” or “raid”) that you can only go to if you’ve maxed your character’s level.  Clicky the link if you want to learn more about it.  It is filled with many things to kill, most of which take the effort of you and your 9 buddies.  Last night we managed to kill five bosses and do the Opera House event.

One of the bosses is called “The Shade of Aran”.  The first time someone killed him, Guild Chat was filled with “Aran down!  We killed Aran!  Yay!’

I wanted to know why they were killing a sweater.  And how.  Did they unravel it?  What colour was it? Did they repurpose the yarn?

Right.  Two fandoms clash…WoW and Knitting….hm.  Unfortunately, unlike the Molten Core dungeon, I can’t spend my evening knitting between pulls in Karazhan.  In the 40-man raids, you have more tardlings going AFK…so when this would happen, I’d knit.  I got a good portion of some socks done around Christmas that way!

Anyhow.  We made progress last night.  Much better progress for a “new” run than many established runs have had.  It’s all good

In other news, I have turned the heels on Robin’s socks and have about an inch on the legs.  I find that working both socks at the same time is working well for me.  I’d like to see if I can do the same sort of thing for some of the Way Cool Patterns on the net right now (mainly Cookie A.’s patterns), but we’ll see.  I’m also grooving on all the yarn out there.  Two of the folks on my Ravelry “friend list” are yarnies….they dye and/or sell this yarn.  It is all verrah verrah yummy.  Very Apple Macintosh for the lick-factor.  I may have to save up the sheckles and get permission from He Of The Accountancy Family Background to use my Visa card and make a couple of orders.

Because, y’know, a girl can never have enough sock yarn.  Never.  Despite what he may think…

(I also signed up for secret pal 11.  which will raise some eyebrows around here when I start putting together care packages for a person I’ve never met.  The trick will actually be MAILING the darned things.  I know that I am postally challenged.  I accept this, and am willing to confront the Evil Postperson.  I shall start by anxiously awaiting my pre-ordered copy of The Last Freakin’ Harry Potter Book in a couple of weeks.  The Training is so strenuous )