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Punning for yarn
Contests | September 04, 2008
and about yarn. It seems to me that it has been way too long since we had some fun and games here at the Rockin’ Sock Club. We have to keep that whole Rockin’ thing going you know.
Remember how much we love puns? I do, especially some of us.
So… don’t you think it stands to reason that we would need a sock knitting pun contest.
I knew you would agree. This is going to be so much fun!!
Ok, here are the rules;
1. It has to be a pun! ( this rule is very important)
2. It can be about any of the following; knitting, knitting socks, yarn, camp,the club shipments or colorways or themes. ( See making it way easy for you)
3. You can only enter once.
4. Enter here in the comments of this post, for all to see and enjoy.
5. You have until September 19th.
6. We will put them in the voting thing we have and then you can vote and the top ten win.
What do you win? I know, how about some yarn? I think we have some hanging around here someplace. While you are punning I will go look for yarn.
Ready, set, pun!!
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I’ll kick this off with a thought I had the other day…
This poor sock is on it’s last leg, darnit!
oh darn
too funny!
Here goes nothing:
After much needling from her students, she spun a fanciful yarn of Dancing Dragons.
Oh that sock kept me in stitches.
You must be putting me on!
(Now you know how terrible I am with puns! Sorry!)
I know this from experience-
A long night of knitting socks it to my wrists.
(remembering Johnny Carson’s “Carnac the Magnificent”)
With Socratic Irony- (and Mr. McMahon reiterates);
How does one block their knitted socks?
I know that I have entered, but speaking of puns, for those of you who are, and aren’t blog readers, ( I am, sortof, if I have something that I can knit and read at the same time), the blogger “knitting curmudgeon” included a clip of George Carlin talking about “stuff” and offers that the word “stuff” be substituted for the word “yarn”. It’s really funny. (Although the clip could be rated adult for just two or three other utterances of four letter substitutions, but really not offensive at all). It is snot blowing funny esp. with the substitution. Or at least it was for me.
That’s the way the Gingerbread Dude crumbles cause the grass is always greener at The Cookie Next Door’s.
I loved using Lamb’s Pride for purse yarn because it felt good!
not really puns, as i so rot at them! smile , but:
when knitting socks at work one day a fellow co-worker said< “you know they sell socks at target don’t you?”
or a few days after i had explained to another co worker that knitting was so relaxing she caught me while in a knit jam and laughed, ” looks SO relaxing, snicker”
some cute puns above, love the last leg comment!
Well, after constant needling from my DH about HIS monsoon socks (marinating for 17 months), they are nearly done. “Inside out” design, omitting the cables, and fully ribbed for his pleasure!
Hope he shows his appreciation enthusiastically!
hm, I am not so firm in english to know if this qualifies as a pun, but it makes me chuckle, so I thought I’d share: I am currently working on Irtfa’a, a shawl by anne hanson, a lace shawl inspired by the raven colors and birds feathers. I keep thinking:
“This really is flying off my needles”
Speaking of non-entry tangents, has anyone seen “The Lady from Sockholm”? (http://www.sockholm.com/) The clips are hilarious!
YES!! Hilarious, I have it and tortured Steph, Nathania and Cookie with it last year.
too funny!
Sock it to me, I can take it
Ha! The dvds of Sockholm are made by my husband’s employer.
I was on pins and needles to hear her wooly tale, and it left me in stitches!
Ok…
I was so angry at my husband the other day, that I picked up the nearest thing I could find and threw it at him. It “socked” him right in the kisser!
Here is the way I taught myself to remember stockinette vs. garter.
Your stockings roll down without garters.
The new sock knitter was chicken about tackling her RSC kits, so she laid them around her knitting room as inspiration and worked on simple socks until she was thoroughly eggsperienced and her Kitchener stitch no longer looked like chicken scratch. She cracked open her first kit and hatched a masterpiece pair of socks. No yolk! She entered the pair in her county fair, and it was so good that she got her claws on a first place ribbon. Boy, is she crowing now! Her knitting friends all cluck about how their timid chick has become a strutting peahen.
Faulty Dyer suffers from dyer consequences.
All the kids are tired of Grandma spinning yarns!
Cookie A.’s patterns are so gorgeous… They knock my socks off!!
Irishgirlie, Nartian, and Tapmouse flocked to Purlescence (their favorite LYS) to buy some sock yarn. They thought they had just dyed and gone to heaven when they saw that the newest Blue Moon shipment had soared in! Oh, how to decide on just one color!
“Look at the pretty Jengu!” Tampouse said. “Wow that color is quite spirited,” replied Nartian.
“What color are you going to pick Irishgirlie?” Tapmouse said. “How about Monsoon?” “Oh, that color blows me away!” commented Irishgirlie.
“What about Olive Garden?” said Tapmouse. Irishgirlie sighed, “That color is the pits.”
“Here it is!” Nartian said. “The perfect color for you. Blarney Stone!” Irishgirlie smiled and said, “Now that rocks!”
*please note, a pseudo Olive Garden skein was used in this story, and thus, no Olive Garden skeins were hurt by being called the pits.
knitting
what’s the point?
either you get it
or you don’t
I’ve always wanted to host a Midsummer’s Eve party in my garden, but as the solstice slipped past, I realized that, once again, our schedules would not allow for a social event on that evening. Sigh. Maybe next year…
I felt like Pond Scum when my dryer (faulty of course) shrunk my sweater.
I’m only ever good at nonsensical…
I joined the sock club because the doc told me I needed more fiber. When I went back later and showed him his mind went spinning. I told him I could do that, too. He suggested I see a shrink, but I told him I’d have to see how my UFOs felt about that. Har, har.
In honor of the newest Spirit yarns with their minimal colors I am going to make this a short and sweet little pun:
Knitting lifts your Spirits.
My friends and I had a “quiet riot” when “mr. green jeans” went on a short vacation.
My rockin’ sock wouldn’t fit a jock.
Since I’ve started school, I haven’t had as much time to knit socks. I’ve been sock blocked.
When I knit socks, I get that heelin feelin.
She had to stop knitting in the barnyard because she was casting her purls before swine.
Not a real punny person, but here it goes:
Never thought I’d be wearing lace on my ankles and pearls on my toes.
Bad purl!! Go knit in Time Out!
“Oh Christmas Balls”! I’ve hit a Blue Brick Wall with this sock! Some Faulty Dyer gave me a Motley Hue and now I want to go all Automic 6 on her butt. Truthfully, things are getting so wooly around here, that I might just get up to some Puck’s Mischief of my own, throw the sock into a deep Lagoon somewhere and go play Footsie Foo with my boyfriend.
Groaner Alert!
Descartes got it wrong! It seems his most famous quote is a garbled version of something his sister said during one of his visits. (Names have been changed to protect the quilty.)
Alina was a prolific knitter and would take moments throughout her day to add a few rows to her current project. One particularly hectic day as she was preparing to process her strawberries she threw up her hands and sat down to her knitting declaring “I tink before I jam”.
Did you hear about the multitasking knitter who flew cross-country while frogging her sock club project one…stitch…at…a…time?
She was The Incredible Tinking Pilot.
Pardon me–are those bumps on your sweater garter stitch or are they genuine purls.
Well, it’s seems there was a rockin’ sockin’ band from the 60’s called the Bleatles.
Yarn Lennon, Paul McCartknit, Stringo Starr and George Harriskein were their names. Their hit songs included: She Loves Ewe, Across the Eweniverse, Here Comes the Spun, Octopus’ Garter,
8 Skeins a Week, Can’t Buy me Gloves (cause ya gotta Knit ‘em), and last but certainly not least:
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Sock Club Band.
I tried a new pathway for my last socks, but it drove me Bordhi-line insane
oh, Irene I love this one.
Gerri - your pun is absolutely AWESOME!!! You will have my vote!
Where do we vote?
Overheard in the crowd while modeling her new socks…. “She’s obviously well-heeled!”
While eavesdropping in Oregon I heard that one must be careful on a Midsummers Night in Stormy Weather or a Beryl come to the Farmhouse and eat all of the Oregon Red Clover Honey, hiding in the Shadow Sand Mossay oaks. Just sayin’.
My husband was teling me this cockamamie story over breakfast one day. I told him tha tit was lunasea & that he had egg all over his face he didn’t believe me and call me a knitwit. “No yolk! You have egg on your face!” Oh well, no sheep lost here. But I can tell you that it’s been shear bliss ever since!
Now that the yarn is out, do we get to vote on the puns???
i was wondering that too
Yes inquiring minds want to know…
YOO HOO TINA!!!
Tina…where are you? Have you forgotten our punny little contest here?
unlike us east coasters socked in by daily rain, tina has been busy flocking with her friends!!!
all in due time i am sure!! until she clones herself, we’ll just have to bide our time knitting september socks!!!! oh yeah, forgot, you aready finished llamalady!!! you rock!
i have my favorites! some people are very punny and creative. i love it!!!
Hey, maybe we can all win! Not too many of us brave soles that even tried.
And Marcy, you are still punning away!! Love it!!
Yeah, llamalady, you need to post your finished Sept socks on this blog! It’s such an awesome photo!
I haven’t figured out HOW to post pics in this yet - if someone can tell me, I will be happy to.
sorry ladies got a little bogged down
will go through these and get a vote up
baaad depraved dyer!
like the overzealous platypus, the overzealous and depraved dyer just wants to have more fun!! girls just want to have fun!!!
i am sure that if you flash a few more bunny pictures, hearts will melt and all will be good
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