Who said Recycling was easy?

So, unfortunately I didn't get to travel this past weekend. So I decided to do something a little less exciting (to everyone else that is). I decided to frog a sweater.

For all you non-crafters out there, "frogging" is a way we yarn crafters recycle. You take an old knit item, such as a sweater, and you pull out to the yarn to reuse it. There are businesses dedicated to this. So I shuffled through those old sweaters in the unused side of my closet and finally found a reasonable candidate:



Let me say, I have thoroughly learned my lesson. I went into this thinking it would be a piece of cake, and I'd get some yarn out of the deal. "Yea! This sweater would be enough to make a baby blanket! Awesome!" Oh no... I had NO IDEA.

I feel even stupider because I know how sweaters are constructed: there's a little thread that makes seams that aren't surged (surged seams are hopeless), but in all my research these masterful craftspeople were just tearing through sweater with a pair of scissors and getting skeins upon skeins of yarn. So, instead of trusting that little voice in the back of my head saying "Use the seam ripper! SEEEEAM RIPPPPPER!!!!" I just dove right in with my scissors, and I cut the seams! This gave me only 10 inch, unusable strips of yarn.



Note the computer and How to Train Your Dragon Oreos. The upside is, though I ruined most of the sweater, one sleeve is still unscathed. So, when I trust that little voice in the back of my head, I'll hopefully have enough yarn for a hat. Moral of the story is "Slow and steady wins the race" or "Don't recycle yarn, buy instead." You pick.

P.S. I also got to see a new movie, Dreamworks How to Train Your Dragon. May I say, it was AMAZING (hence the Oreos). It had a really sweet story and the most bad ass pets ever! I would recommend it to everyone!