Contest!!!

In honor of our next family member, The Boyfriend would like to host a contest…enter as many times as you’d like. All submissions should be emailed to knittingsamurai at gmail dot com. The winner will be chosen at random from those who submit the correct movie title and quote who speaks the line. OK, are you ready?

This pictogram illistrates a quote from a famous movie…

The winner will receive either a skein of Araucania Ranco or a Borders Gift Certificate, winner’s choice.
Contest ends July 7th!

ETA: Pay special attention to the June 22nd post...

Face The Music

Can you hear that? I sounds kinda like a flute. No wait, I hear the some other instruments now. It’s starting to sound like music.

Yes, it’s time to face the music.

And While we’re facing it, lets have a stash flash. It was making Linus a bit wary, as he thought it could be hostile, nevering having seen it all gathered together before.

First off let me tell you about the most interesting, the funniest, and the most ridiculous guesses received.

Most Interesting goes to….
Elaine who said, “I was just going in for a random guess, but then I saw the last post - I like that idea choosing a year of significance.88.19 miles of yarn. My goodness, that's roughly the distance from NY to Philadelphia a thought to ponder!”

Until that point I hadn’t really thought about the distance in terms of driving from point A to point B. I was envisioning walking laps, why should it make sense, we're talking about yarn in miles?

The Funniest goes to…
Kitten With a Whiplash, who said ”Hi, I'm going to guess 54.25 miles. I tried just once to catalog my yarn. Never again. I swear it multiplied, flew around room, disappeared and reappeared with total abandon, never allowing me an accurate count. When I lost the paper I'd written all my notes on, I just gave up. I came here from WiKnit's contest blog, and will post to mine”

I had tears of laughter imagining the yarn flying around the room with gogels and a helmet in a fighter plane.


The Most Ridiculous goes to…
Catiebell, who said “I can't even begin to figure it out mathematically, so I'm just going to pull a number out of the air - 41.9 miles of yarn. Where do you keep that much yarn?”

Ridiculous because it’s so small. I had that much before I became a sock knitter, and we all know that the sock yarn piles up deceivingly fast.

And finally, the grand prize winner, the person who came the closest without going over is
Rachel O, who said “65.04, a nice round number. I have to go figure that out mine now.”

The actual count is 65.1. So Rachel O you have your choice of either
· Socks That Rock: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock – Lightweight (Mill End) Dixie Chicks
· Cherry Tree Hill Suri Laceweight Wild Cherry
· Araucania Ranco Multy 318 Hot Pink
Rachel, please email me at knittingsamurai at g mail dot com, or leave a comment with your email address so we can work out details.

I’d like to thank you all for participating and making my confession enjoyable rather than a painful humiliating experience. And once more, just for your reference, this is what my 65 miles of stash looks like...there now I've shown it. Never again!

Mileage Contest

With the New Year comes the desire to set new goals and measure last years progress.

Looking back at my “All Used Folder” I see that since the big reorganization and catalogue adventure (1/8/08) 7.25 miles of yarn have been knit. More than half of that was from my original stash, 4.9 miles. Think about that, MILES of yarn.

As with any great love, my stash continues to grow with each passing day. Knit as fast as I might I did not decrease the size of my stash. Sadly.
In fact, it has continued to grow and grow fast since I’ve become a sock knitter…ok an obsessive sock knitter.
This year, in the same amount of space, same number of bins and bags, so that should tell you how much finer and therefore more yardage each skein has as compared to last year’s yarn, I have a bit more yarn.
Last year I had 530 skeins in the stash, and this year I have 789 skeins. So yeah, they have to be smaller skeins to fit in the same space as 530 skeins.

I knit 135 projects in the past year by the way…I also track that too. Don’t laugh, ok you can laugh. I can’t help it. I love to be organized and have goals.

Anyone want to guess what the current yardage is? It could be a fun game. I could be like Bob Barker on the Price is Right, whoever gets closest without going over wins a skein of sock or lace yarn, or if they’re not a knitter maybe I’ll make them a neckwarmer instead…yes I think this could be fun. Let’s play, Guess the Mileage in The Samurai’s Stash...

I’ll give you a few more facts. I have 3 decorative baskets in the living room displaying yarn, I have 3 big bins in the closet with yarn and 2 more in the garage with synthetic yarn. I just took the angora out of the freezer. Last year at this time I had 39.8 Miles of stash yarn. Green and Purple are the most prevalent colors in the stash.

Let’s say, guesses will be accepted until January 10th. The winner can choose from either,

• Socks That Rock: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock – Lightweight (Mill End) Dixie Chicks
• Cherry Tree Hill Suri Laceweight Wild Cherry
• Araucania Ranco Multy 318 Hot Pink
  

Later: Go ahead and take a shot at it. So far the guesses have been far too low.

Even Later: 123! My goodness I do have a little self control. A bit less yarn than that.