I haven't written for a while. Actually I have, but they are sitting in my queue unpublished. I have been in a "mood". It isn't a good mood nor a bad mood, but it is definitely a mood. I was trying to think of something interesting that I haven't written about before. That's a tall order considering I been writing this blog for almost twelve years. I was going to write a clever post about things rattling around in my head or things I have observed in this political climate, but that isn't what I need to dwell on. I actually did write a whole paragraph of venting and deleted it. Just writing it down released it from my mind. It's time for everyone to do the same thing. Being bombarded with so much anger is not healthy. So in order to move on with all of that, I decided to do something really important. I cleaned my closet and got rid of another batch of stuff. In doing so I found a wool sweater I have been keeping for years. It was itchy, pilling and a little snug, but I liked it even though I didn't wear it. I decided to unravel it to repurpose it.
Even I didn't know what a sharp turn this blog was going to take, but this is what I came up with. The first thing I did was undo all the seams and remove the zipper. Then piece by piece I began unraveling the knitting. I have done this many times. Sometimes the sweater seams are sewn with a serger. This means the seam is stitched and the excess is cut off in the same process. Those sweaters can't be unraveled into a single strand of yarn. It will unravel into a piece only one row long. Usually a nice wool sweaters like this are perfect for repurposing the yarn.
