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What I did on my mental vacation.
Sep. 30th, 2008 02:26 amSo, a few resolvable issues have been...not resolved, but progress made. Tools acquired. I'm feeling optimistic.
Today, I went out on some "retail therapy." I bought:
1. Cherry ICEE-- because any day is better with an ICEE. I wish that they made a smaller one than the small, though; I really only want an 8 ounce. Total: $0.75
On a related note, if you live near a Braum's, they sell a "junior shake" which is 12 ounces, far smaller than the "small." It's also cheaper, and about as much as you really want.
2. Bookstore: I got stuck in the wrong lane and ended up going the long way around the lake to MacArthur, which means I discovered a used bookstore at 39th and MacArthur and bought McKinley's Spindle's End which I remember nothing of except that I liked it, and Pratchett's Witches Abroad which I don't think I've ever actually read. Total: $10.30
3. Thrift store: This is where I was originally going when I ended up going the other way around the lake. I had plans to find a sweater or two in sizes that don't fit me and ravel them for the yarn. I found something I didn't expect, though: a replacement for my chocolatey-brown wool sweater that got felted-- this one also long-sleeved and chocolatey-brown, but cotton. Yay!
Along with the $4 brown sweater, I got 4 other sweaters for $2 each.
*Cream-and-white mixed cotton sweater, large, which I may keep whole;
*Dusty red sleeveless silk turtleneck. Raveled it to find that it's not yarn, it's a zillion leetle tiny threads. I'll need to wind that up all at once when I do ravel it.
*Soft baby-blue-and-white heathered merino wool sweater.
*Interesting three-strand thick-and-thin "harvest" type colors sweater, possibly silk, possibly rayon.
Total: $12.70 at the thrift store
Grand total: $23.75 for a few hours of fun and a new sweater and a lot of yarn. Whee!
I've raveled out a sleeve each of the last two sweaters, and I'm splitting out one ply of the multi-colored sweater. It seems that the three threads are actually different color mixes-- two are orange, deep green, gold, and brown, and one is pink and green and white. I'm splitting that one out to save for something interesting, and knitting up with the other two.
The blue sweater, I raveled a sleeve on it and got 54g of yarn, which is nearly enough to make a hat out of. I expect to get another 200g or so. As a note for those non-knitters who don't get why I'm unknitting perfectly good sweaters: good yarn can be $8-10 for 50g or so. So this is $40 worth of yarn in that one sweater alone that I got for $2 plus some work.
I'll post pics in the morning once I have a bit more work done.
Today, I went out on some "retail therapy." I bought:
1. Cherry ICEE-- because any day is better with an ICEE. I wish that they made a smaller one than the small, though; I really only want an 8 ounce. Total: $0.75
On a related note, if you live near a Braum's, they sell a "junior shake" which is 12 ounces, far smaller than the "small." It's also cheaper, and about as much as you really want.
2. Bookstore: I got stuck in the wrong lane and ended up going the long way around the lake to MacArthur, which means I discovered a used bookstore at 39th and MacArthur and bought McKinley's Spindle's End which I remember nothing of except that I liked it, and Pratchett's Witches Abroad which I don't think I've ever actually read. Total: $10.30
3. Thrift store: This is where I was originally going when I ended up going the other way around the lake. I had plans to find a sweater or two in sizes that don't fit me and ravel them for the yarn. I found something I didn't expect, though: a replacement for my chocolatey-brown wool sweater that got felted-- this one also long-sleeved and chocolatey-brown, but cotton. Yay!
Along with the $4 brown sweater, I got 4 other sweaters for $2 each.
*Cream-and-white mixed cotton sweater, large, which I may keep whole;
*Dusty red sleeveless silk turtleneck. Raveled it to find that it's not yarn, it's a zillion leetle tiny threads. I'll need to wind that up all at once when I do ravel it.
*Soft baby-blue-and-white heathered merino wool sweater.
*Interesting three-strand thick-and-thin "harvest" type colors sweater, possibly silk, possibly rayon.
Total: $12.70 at the thrift store
Grand total: $23.75 for a few hours of fun and a new sweater and a lot of yarn. Whee!
I've raveled out a sleeve each of the last two sweaters, and I'm splitting out one ply of the multi-colored sweater. It seems that the three threads are actually different color mixes-- two are orange, deep green, gold, and brown, and one is pink and green and white. I'm splitting that one out to save for something interesting, and knitting up with the other two.
The blue sweater, I raveled a sleeve on it and got 54g of yarn, which is nearly enough to make a hat out of. I expect to get another 200g or so. As a note for those non-knitters who don't get why I'm unknitting perfectly good sweaters: good yarn can be $8-10 for 50g or so. So this is $40 worth of yarn in that one sweater alone that I got for $2 plus some work.
I'll post pics in the morning once I have a bit more work done.
