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Knit a Crystal Cozy for Your Pocket or Purse
June 19, 2010 | 
Author Have a Ruined (Felted/Fulled) Sweater? Salvage Idea!
I’ve written some about my frustrated experiences with trying to recycle yarn, but I ran across this idea for another way to give new life to old, ruined wool sweaters: full/felt the hell out of them and turn them into knitting baskets, basket liners or bags! If you have one or find one at the thrift store that you like but it doesn’t look like a good candidate for frogging to reuse the yarn, just reuse the whole thing. Throw it in a pillow case and put it through a hot, soapy wash and then cut and stitch to make your new item. I was going to knit a few such projects and full them myself but this is a great, time saving alternative, and it gives new life to a sweater someone will probably never buy or really want to wear if they do buy it. Less wool in the landfills?
Check out the inspiration for this idea.
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Knitting Songs / Videos – ??? Shall We Do a Sing-along?
Hey there, sorry my blog was down for a few days. Here are a few amusing knitting songs to make it up to you.
The lyrics to the Fraggle video are below:
It’s neat and it’s sweet.
It’s a ding dong treat,
Knittin’ socks for little feet.
Just sittin’ with your knittin’ all day long.
You know, knittin’s friendly,
And knittin’s fun.
Knittin’s good for everyone,
And that is why we sing this knittin’ song.
Well it’s knit one pearl two.
What’s a Doozer gonna do,
With a gol-darn,
Ball of yarn?
It’s stitch three drop four.
Pitch that knittin’ out the door right now.
There’s a green, there’s a red.
There’s a knot in my thread.
A knitter needs his noggin read,
So don’t come ’round and speak to me of yarn.
You can k-nit all day and k-nothin’ fits.
‘Cause only k-nitwits like to k-nit,
And k-nittin’ k-needles just ain’t worth a darn.
Well it’s knit one pearl two.
What’s a Doozer gonna do,
With a gol-darn,
Ball of yarn?
It’s stitch three drop four.
Pitch that knittin’ out the door right now.
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