What a crazy, exciting, anxiety-filled day!

This morning kicked off with a Wollmeise sneak up at The Loopy Ewe. Through clues that Sheri had dropped over at the Loopy Groupies Ravelry group, we knew the sneak up had to be yesterday or today. There were people who actually stayed up all night hitting F5 on the “What’s New” page, waiting for the elusive Wollmeise to appear! The sneak up finally occurred this morning. All the Wollmeise (I heard something like 300 skeins) sold out in under 5 minutes. It was incredible. I managed to score one skein each of Paul, Emil, and Wilder Mohn. ::squee::

Then this afternoon, the pattern for Sock Madness was released. Ya’ll, it’s a zombie pattern. Seriously! The name of the pattern is “Zombie Socks” — check it out. How cool is that?

Here’s the start to my zombie sock. I’m using Wollmeise in Poison Nr. 5:

I just hope I can finish fast enough to stay in the competition, ’cause I already feel so behind… ! I’d hate to be knocked out in round 1. I’ll be knitting into the wee hours tonight (late as I can stand it anyway), knitting while they’re replacing my car’s windshield tomorrow morning, thinking about knitting while I’m at work all afternoon, and then Friday night I’m determined to pull and all-nighter if necessary to finish. Here goes nothing…!