I signed up for this fiasco a couple months ago, and have been greatly anticipating the beginning of the “war”.
But, my hopes have been dashed. My assassin has my address, and says she has finished my socks. But I have yet to HEAR from the Sock Wars person. I do not have the mailing address for my victim. I have sent her an email, but she does not reply.
Now, I hear that several others don’t know the address of their victim either, and they have their socks ready to mail. How frustrating. :gah:
I have also heard that some people DID get their email dossier with instructions, the pattern, AND the address of their victim.
I have the pattern, which was posted on the website. I know the email address of my victim, because that was posted on the website as well. But, I don’t know her address. :wall:
This is just NOT a fair fight. :grrr:
I think the “Sock Wars” should be cancelled, proclaiming Hurricane Gordon the winner. We could all keep our own socks this time, and start over with a NEW pattern and better management another time.
As for me, I am keeping the socks I started for myself. I have wound a two ounce ball of yarn to send to my assassin if she sends socks to me. Aside from that, I don’t want to be a part of it anymore, because it’s a joke.
So very sorry to hear this, Sandy :oops: I was a skeered something like this might happen with the exchanging of socks…perhaps all will get straightened out very quickly…let’s hope!
I envision lots of knitters all over the world, opening their windows, shaking their fist at the establishment, with yarn and needles being flung outside.
Iam experiencing the same thing. I think its hard too when you work fulltime. I have mine done, Iam getting ready to mail them. But I also ran across some posts in the sock wars forum indicating that some people were with holding their address so that they can’t get knocked out.
And besides the fact that if we are working with 748 other people, whats it take for someone to say they didn’t get socks when they did.
I hate thinking the worse of people, but it does seem a little bit unfair.
I thought at first that we had to show a pic of the completed pair when we were done, not wait for the other person to admit they got them.
Iam not liking the way it is going.
I agree with you sandy. I think sock wars should be cancelled. I was looking at the list of people who signed up, and I think they should have organised the list better.
What Yarnmonkey should have done was made sure everyone knew who their assasin was, and made sure everyone had mailing address’s BEFORE starting the war. I didn’t join because the lack of materials around my area. I’m glad I didn’t too. :-x
Just because people aren’t giving up their addresses doesn’t mean that they’re more likely to win. I don’t know, I think that what you’re doing, Sandy, is in poor sportsmanship, punishing your assassin by not providing her with your unfinished knitting and just giving up. Then you get two pairs of socks and your assassin has to knit two pairs from scratch. It’d be one thing if you hadn’t done any knitting, but you have. And yes, there are other poor sports in the war, but that doesn’t excuse ANYONE.
Yarn Monkey hasn’t emailed me, either. maybe because her power got knocked out by a hurricane. If someone in New Orleans last year had organized a tournament like this before Katrina, would we all be saying the same thing? In the spirit of good sportsmanship, I emailed my assassin with my address before she even started knitting. I found her blog and emailed her.
You can’t control anyone else’s behavior or participation, but you can decide that YOU won’t be a poor sport about it.
And yes, it shoulda-coulda-woulda been organized better or differently, but nobody has ever attempted to single-handedly organize a swap of this magnitude before, so of course there are going to be glitches.
I’m disappointed in everyone who is behaving badly here.
It’s not a “glitch” when someone deliberately does not provide a snail mail address when asked for it just so he/she can stay in the game. Whether this is the case with Sandy, I don’t know. I do know that the deliberate withholding of information has happened to at least one person–the victim actually said she wouldn’t provide it. She said the assassin would have to wait for YM to send the dossier! Geez! That’s not a glitch; that’s just cold.
Well, I’m really not doing anything wrong. I didn’t withhold my address. My assassin has mailed my socks already, so they will probably get here tomorrow or the next day. I will be sending her my yarn I was using, but she says she has already started knitting a pair for my victim with yarn she has at home. I don’t know the address of my victim, so she’s gonna have to figure that out for herself, I guess.
So, I don’t feel guilty. I did everything I could on my end. I just quit knitting, because my assassin has already started making socks for my victim. It was pointless to continue.
I still haven’t gotten an email from my victim or from Yarn Monkey.
Oh, one more thing. My victim doesn’t have a blog, or I would have been able to find her. All I know is her name (Carolyn L) and her email address. I couldn’t figure anything else about her. I had to do all my sleuthing with the one entry on the blog.
And I frogged the sock, because it wasn’t to gauge. I’m only getting one pair of socks out of it. And my assassin will be getting free yarn from me.
The glitch is that YM wasn’t able to send the dossier. The poor sportsmanship is the people refusing to provide their addresses. A better plan would have been to ask people to provide their addresses to their assassins, and perhaps this should have been done long before the tournament started, so we could work out who was in or out before we all got the pattern. However, all we can all do at this point is be the best sport possible.
Sandy, if your assassin has said that she’s already started her own second pair, and doesn’t want your knitting, then that’s fine. I felt it would be bad sportsmanship to withold any knitting you’d done for your target from your assassin, thereby FORCING her/him to start a new pair of socks. And I’m sorry if I seemed harsh, I’m just getting really tired of all the poor sportsmanship I’m seeing on the other forum. :pout: :grrr: :!!!: :verysad:
My victim’s poor sportsmanship is why I’m quitting. She has not provided her mailing address, and I’ve tried EVERYTHING. I left a message on the blog, I sent an email to my victim, I sent an email to Yarn Monkey.
I don’t see what else I could have done.
Also, my assassin is a real bada$$.
Here is what she wrote in the Sock Wars Forum: I would send a taunting email telling them to wait for the official email from yarn monkey. Then I get busy on knitting target number two’s socks of doom! Target number one’s socks are being mailed via priority mail with delivery confirmation on monday morning.
So, now she gets to experience MY life…not knowing the mailing address of my victim…which is now HER victim. She’s getting what she deserves, I guess.
I was thinking about this on Saturday…and I really think she should have postponed. I know she probably didn’t have time to think it through, adn thought it would be helpful to post the pattern first, when really, the addresses should have preceded the pattern. The dossiers could have been sent out days before the pattern, because without the pattern, they would have been useless. KWIM? But you kow, hindsight is 20/20. Yarnmonkey was/is in the midst of a natural disaster and I don’t blame her for the snafu. :shrug:
Yeah, I’m not blaming anyone either. I think it was just a bad situation because of the hurricane. But, nothing can be done about it now. The war is on…and I’m defeated before even firing a shot. :verysad:
I was feeling very :verysad: on Saturday…then as I got nearer to the end of my socks of doom, I realized, “I don’t like this pattern very much.” And I was kind of relieved to know I wouldn’t have to knit them again.
I like the pattern… :oops: It’s all squishy and feels so cozy!
Julie, I also don’t think YM had a chance to think things through after the hurricane hit. I wouldn’t have been thinking very clearly either! And I’m sure she wasn’t anticipating that some people would be so uncooperative. Just from the tone of the post in which she listed the assassins and targets, she seemed to think we’d sort things out on our own since she couldn’t. That didn’t quite work out, unfortunately.
I got a taunting email from my target this morning–she’s actually really sweet, so her ‘taunts’ are kind of funny. Anyway, she mailed her target’s socks today. And my target will get my socks as soon as I can knit two that match. I’ve never had this kind of trouble with gauge before!
I have yet to hear from my assassin. I’ve only seen one post from her on the Sock Wars forum, and the content shows she has the pattern and is knitting. I emailed her my correct shoe size and my address, but I never received confirmation from her that she received that info. I guess she’s using silence as her taunting tool!
I’m sorry if you guys don’t like my posts in here. I’m not a sore loser usually. I guess I just had myself all built up, thinking this was going to be a fun game. I just got unlucky this time. My assassin is a sour puss, and my link to my victim is broken. :pout:
Maybe my attitude has something to do with my recent injury to my left leg? (I’ve been in pain now for 4 days with that stupid thing!) :wall:
Hopefully, I’ll be in a better mood when this clears up. Good thing I don’t have any REAL physical impairments, or I’d be a pain ALL the time! :oops:
Forgive me, my friends. You know I’m usually much nicer than this. :crying:
I hope the rest of you have a better experience with the Sock Wars. I’m looking forward to reading all your happy posts and seeing all your pretty pictures. Maybe that will help me get in a better mood. :verysad:
I know you’re going through a rough time, Sandy. And the fact that what seemed like so much fun has turned into a PITA for a lot of people is a real downer. I’m kinda blah about the whole thing, even though nothing has happened to me personally. I don’t like seeing other people get shafted in what should be a fun game of sock knitting. I’d be upset, too, if my target ignored my repeated requests for an address.
Speaking of that, did you check the SW forum to see if perhaps her email was listed incorrectly? Several email addresses were wrong, and hers could be one of them. (You might also check the comments on YM’s blog–the comments for the post with the addresses contain several corrections by participants.)
Yeah, I’ve gone through the forum. No such luck. I sent an email to HER victim to see if she had heard from her yet, and she replied right away to tell me that she had not heard from her. Oh well, at least I’ve tried!
I kinda suspected something like this would happen. Like I said on another forum, I like to think the best of people, but reality keeps interferring with all those beautiful thoughts. :pout:
maybe it would be better if people could do something like this locally. Better to start smaller anyhow, so that one gets practice organizing this sort of thing. People also tend to behave better in smaller groups where their bad behavior is more easily spotted. I’d like to participate in a small, local version of this, I think.
