Soon to be felted!!

I have now finished the icord for the handles and am trying to think how to make holes stay for the felting process so i can use a drawstring... hmmmm... anyway, it will be felted tonite!!

Other news, I washed that great big pile of yarn you saw earlier, its dripping dry downstairs right now and I bought the kool-aid to dye it with, maybe a project for Tuesday or so. I'm thinking a yummy orange maybe, I have tons of purples and blues... orange would be different, or maybe a bright green!!

I went thrift store shopping today but only came away with 3 sweaters but they were only $5 for all and several were XLarge!! I have found out several things when looking for sweaters, so here are my words of wisdom on them....

When searching for Wool Sweaters:

• Look in the Men's section, the colors are usually pretty drab but the sweaters are hardly worn and you get the bigger sizes and bigger stitches most of the time! There are usually more off white sweaters too that can be hand dyed.
• Check the arms almost immediately, nothing worse then getting all excited and bringing home that yummy sweater to find the arms are surged even if the sides are not!! Big waste of yarn, also check for felting there.

Ok, that's it for now... forgot my train of thought!

I went to Goodwill today but don't want to pay $9 for a wool sweater just cause it has a famous label on it so I came out with nothing, I have like 4 or 5 thrift stores in just this small area and the others are much cheaper. I also would love to know how these lucky knitters find the good yarns and needles at these stores, they had nothing even remotely like that.... :( Oh well.