I planned to add them to our charity crafting donation
stash. We each keep it separate from our personal stash of yarn.
Something made me check it out. Turns out is must be wool
because every so many yards, it's like a critter ("moth" obviously)
nibbled the yarn. I decided to use it right away.
This was a real challenge. I knew I'd need to cut and
re-join many times with each ball. At first I tried the Russian Join (link here) but even that was too much trouble because the stretches of good yarn
were not very long. I ended up simply knotting the two ends together and
crocheting over them.
I had decided to work it into our favorite fingerless glovespattern. I was able to make 4 pairs - small, medium, large, extra large. It is
a little lumpy in some places. It would not work for a gift or for my Etsy
shop, but it will work very well for cold hands in our desert cold this winter.
The gloves are sturdy, and the wool makes them very warm for
that particular type of recipient.
I'll toss them into a bag with a cedar ball until we give
out the first batch of things to the homeless, probably sometime next month.
I'm so glad I followed my instincts on this.
2 comments:
Do oh have an agency you give them to?
For the homeless, we have a local priest with a homeless "following" both here and in Ely (very very cold there). We drop the stuff to one of his volunteers and she and her team distribute them at a weekly evening Mass service - the volunteers make 150 sandwiches and pass those out plus our donations, to those who gather around the little team. We've been working directly with them for over 2 years now. Before that, we sometimes took them to Catholic Charities or to the Salvation Army, etc. - then we stopped because we found some of our items in a local thrift shop. When we make them, we want them to go directly to a cold head, hands or neck...
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