Ready for a Hat Attack?
Sunday July 20, 2008
Many knitters are familiar with Sock Wars, the kill-or-be-killed sock knitting competition that was in its third year this year (and is technically still going, with more than 100 participants who have been knitting socks since May, though a winner was announced through a drawing), but you might not have heard of another yarn-related smackdown, Hat Attack.
This is the second year for the sudden death hat competition, which has a similar structure to Sock Wars. Registration for people who want to take part in this year's Hat Attack starts today, and the competition begins September 16. The last knitter standing will win $500 in yarn from Southwest Trading Company.
Have you ever taken part in one of these contests? I'd love to hear about your experience!
This is the second year for the sudden death hat competition, which has a similar structure to Sock Wars. Registration for people who want to take part in this year's Hat Attack starts today, and the competition begins September 16. The last knitter standing will win $500 in yarn from Southwest Trading Company.
Have you ever taken part in one of these contests? I'd love to hear about your experience!
Comments
How many hats one have to knit?
It depends how long the contest goes. I’ve never participated in one of these, but from what I understand you get the pattern and a target, and your target has to receive her or his hat before you receive yours in order for you to stay alive. If that happens you get another name and so on until one person is left standing. In Sock Wars, some people are up to six pairs of socks so far; I imagine it would go higher with hats, since they’re faster to knit.
Actually, in Hat Attack, if your victim receives the hat you knit them before they are finished, they put their unfinished hat on waste yarn, and send it to you to finish, and you send it to their victim, it’s actually very linear. In a hop-jump kind of way.
It’s a lot of fun, especially if there are several people in the same area all participating. There were three of us that work together who did the first Hat Attack, and now we’ve recruited several more.