{"id":4717,"date":"2013-04-10T02:03:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2013-04-10T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T07:08:07","slug":"a-consolation-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4717","title":{"rendered":"a consolation prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what arrived in the mail today, smelling slightly like jelly beans through its packaging:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/8637149552\/\" title=\"Sock Madness VII Prize by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8117\/8637149552_003fe5ee52.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Sock Madness VII Prize\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That would be my prize for the first round of Sock Madness (posing here with the second sock of the pair, currently in progress). It&#8217;s two bars of soap homemade by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoneview.us\/\">Julie<\/a> in one of my favorite scents, violet. <\/p>\n<p>But, Sprite, I can hear you say, weren&#8217;t you eliminated from competition in that opening round?<\/p>\n<p>I was. But Sock Madness is one of those events where prizes are awarded at the discretion, kindness, and amusement of its moderators and for a wide assortment of reasons. (Mine was for persevering with the competition through difficult personal times.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still a little disappointed that I couldn&#8217;t have knit more\/faster while in Salt Lake, but the sweetness of the prize and the generosity of the moderators (and the pattern designer, who helped me come up with a solution to the boneheaded mistake I made while trying to knit through exhaustion and stress) takes the bitterness out of my failure. 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