saying farewell
Jan. 12th, 2010 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Growing up, my dad had a small set of sweaters that he rotated through on a regular basis (~5, I think). When I went off to college, I surreptitiously took two of them with (I can't remember now if I'd been wearing them before, and it was natural to take them with, or if I suddenly decided "I want to appropriate those two sweaters of dad's, or if he'd stopped wearing them and they were going to go to Goodwill if I didn't rescue them). These two sweaters are ones that he'd taken to college with him -- we have photographic evidence, so they're now reaching the 30+-year-old mark. Today, I pulled one out, and found that, in addition to the slightly frayed wrist-band on one sleeve, Widget had gotten a hold of the wrist-band of the other sleeve and chewed on it; he didn't eat a piece out (as he often does), but there's a cat-mouth-shaped semi-circle bit into it, and it's covered in crystalized cat slobber. I took this as a sign that it was time to retire this particular sweater. Lately, because it's gotten a bit ratty, I've been wearing it only around the house, and not out in public, but it still got pulled out on a regular basis and I put it into the trash with a somewhat heavy heart.
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Date: 2010-01-12 07:03 pm (UTC)In the trash? No recycling? No repurposing?
Perhaps a Christmas stocking?
http://www.howdoesshe.com/wp-content/uploads/sweater-stockings-10.jpg
Or a pet bed?
http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/pet-bed-made-from-old-sweaters.jpg
the sweater
Date: 2010-01-12 07:17 pm (UTC)Sara's Mom
Re: the sweater
Date: 2010-01-12 08:13 pm (UTC)Re: the sweater
Date: 2010-01-12 09:51 pm (UTC)You sound like my mom ...
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Date: 2010-01-12 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 09:50 pm (UTC)Other ideas might be a purse/bookbag (it would have to be lined); a mat bag (for a yoga/exercise mat); a cushion cover; a vest (cut off the sleeves and uses matching bias tape on the armscyes); a teddy bear (or other simple stuffed animal - trickier because you have keep the sweater piece from fraying while you work); a teapot cozy ...
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Date: 2010-01-13 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 02:15 pm (UTC)30+ years is a good life. Too bad something you are evidently sentimentally attached to can't be extended.
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Date: 2010-01-13 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 12:45 am (UTC)If you have come to hate it, then may it rest in peace.
But sweaters like this often benefit amazingly from being turned into pet beds by being folded, *machine washed on hot* and thus felted. (Yes-- just what you try to AVOID doing to sweaters you plan to wear!) They look much less ragged after a couple of rounds of that treatment.
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Date: 2010-01-13 09:08 am (UTC)This Sweater
Date: 2010-01-13 12:51 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbL1LptZ8Vc