Some people are crazier than others

Yesterday I went to the Finger Lakes Fiber Festival in Hemlock, NY. It was a breath of Fall, my favorite season. The air was cool and windy, the sky was sunny and cloudy, and at times, drizzly.

The Rochester Knitting Guild had a booth in a building with other fiber arts guilds on the Hemlock Fairgrounds. The focus of the RKG booth was the Biggest Sock in the World, to be entered into the Guinness Book World Records. Definitely some people are crazier than others.

The sock is being knit in the round with circular knitting needles used end-to-end to go all the way around the sock, which is about 12 feet around. (This is a guess - it may be bigger.) The sock was on two 8-foot long banquet tables pushed together, and knitters sat and knitted where the ends of the circular needles met. Passersby were encouraged to sit down and knit, then sign the log. Which a lot did; it wasn't just guild members who were doing it.

The sock's next port of call I hear is Toronto, you lucky Torontonians. Have a blast!