But first – Jessica left a comment yesterday saying that the Blue Moon Sock Club isn’t cost effective. While everyone is definitely entitled to their own opinion, and I’m not trying to sell anyone on joining, I wanted to address that so people reading my comments see the other side. I’m just going to do the math for the year subscription.

Seven skeins of socks that rock @ $19/skein (the six kits plus the bonus exclusive colorway) = $133
Six sock patterns designed just for the club – I’m going to go with the Fiber Trends price of $4.50 each = $27
Assuming you bought those seven skeins yourself in two orders = $10 handling fees
Binder – no idea what the market value of that might be, but we’ll be safe and price a plain binder = $2

We’re at $172 now, which is approximately the price of the year membership (off by about $1). I also have no idea if a pattern is included with that skein of the exclusive colorway, but I assumed that there wasn’t. Additionally, the $19 a skein isn’t necessarily true – the skeins I bought at Stitches West were 380 yards of 8 spi, and they were $21. This isn’t on their site – the skeins there are 360 yards. I didn’t even look to see what the other weights they were offering at what prices, and I distinctly remember Kaci saying that they came up with the price based on an average of the different yarns they would be sending out.

Of course, what sold me and Miyon were the words “unavailable to the public for three months” (those are the six colorways) and “exclusive colorway just for sock club members” (the bonus colorway).

Alrighty, on to Olympic knitting.

I spent 2 hours yesterday seaming the shoulders, weaving in a couple of ends, and picking up and starting the collar. I’m exactly halfway through knitting the collar – it will be doubled up and tacked down to the line of picked up stitches. I’ll finish the collar tonight, but then I have a problem – I can’t seam while watching women’s figure skating. We’ll either have to a) watch the three episodes of House that we’re behind (tonight is knit night) or b) knit something else when the collar is done. Speaking of women’s figure skating, I watched the rest of Tuesday night on DVR last night, and one comment by Dick Button really made me mad, despite the fact that my sister had already warned me it was there. I was disappointed that there weren’t many google hits for “Dick Button” and hate, specifically “I hate Dick Button” so I thought I’d add one in. This is what he said after Yelena Liashenko skated:

“The problem is that over that [12 year] period of time, her skating hasn’t changed that much. It would be more helpful if she went to the rink to not only train, but thought about it a little bit too.
(long pause)
I hope that’s not being unkind.”

Yes, Dick, that’s unkind. Ass. He’s so clueless it made me laugh (and I had to call Brad over to listen to it too).

Back to Sam – it was pretty cold last night (we refuse to use heat in San Diego), and Lani was helping me seam the shoulders (she’s rarely a couch cuddler):

Of course, all of that tired her out, so she helped herself to a pillow:

I really need to clean my house – there are pieces of Sam everywhere, and, well, just a lot of knitting crap. Which reminds me – Miyon, Marisa, and I threw in an extra knit night this week (well, day, really) to work on Olympic knitting. We’d like to extend the invitation to San Diegans that we’ve met or are in the San Diego blog ring (I’m leery of giving my home address to complete strangers). We’re meeting on Saturday between 10 am to 4 pm, (come and leave whenever you want during that time). Drop me a comment or an email (gmail me button in the right corner) if you’d like to come.

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