Holy cow, it's finished!
Just look at that thing. It's bigger than my head, see?
Ignore the messy apartment. Who has time to clean when you're making a giant ball of calamari yarn?
Over a year ago, when I was purging my wardrobe of things that were way too big for me anymore, I kept all the old t-shirts instead of taking them to the Salvation Army like the rest of the stuff. I wasn't really sure how much use anyone would get out of old, solid color, long-sleeve t-shirts. I wore them to the office and I suppose someone else could've, but once cotton jersey gets old, it don't look pretty.
I don't remember if I had gotten Mason-Dixon Knitting yet, or if I'd just had a vague idea that I could do something with the old shirts. But after taking them with me when I moved, and after months of telling His Awesomeness that I was going to do it, I realized that I was actually going to have to do it, or end up living with someone who always kinda suspected that I wasn't going to do it.
So in fits and starts, I've cut some of the shirts into loops, tied them all together and turned them into a big ball o' yarn. There are more shirts untouched, but I decided just to use the blues and purples, plus the grays and whites for now.
As soon as I can bear the thought of the ball no longer being bigger than my head, I'll start turning it into a rug. I'm thinking of a little rug to put my the kitchen sink so I'll have something cushy to stand on.
That's really the part that HA suspects that I'm never going to finish. So I so totally am gonna.
That'll show him.
1 comments:
Mmm! I knew I was keeping my old t-shirts for some reason. I have a rug from Pier One that is made of strips of recycled cotton jersey. But a crocheted/knitted one would be just as divine! (I think it would have to be crocheted because it was get so freakin' heavy on knitting needles.)
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