January 14, 2014

The Mystery of Patches and the Moth Hole

No, I am not writing a Nancy Drew novel. I am presenting the mysterious tale of my favorite sweater. Which, over last summer, appeared to turn into a food court for moths.
Things were looking grim, until I looked more closely at this.
The sweater, which I bought at a local crafts fair, is an amalgam of a bunch of thrift shop sweaters that the artist recut into one. When I looked closely at the bits and pieces scattered across the top, I thought, "These are bits and pieces scattered across the top. Another word for that is 'patch.'"

So I rummaged through a box of wool squares that I had just been thinking about giving away. My romance with wool quilting was a hot one, but I had broken things off between us awhile back and really didn't see any chance of reconciliation.

But, with a scissors and some wool yarn, the squares became patches.

Patches, meet moth holes.

 And now all I have a sweater again.
But here's the mystery. I patched up every last hole the other night and when I took it out, I see new ones. I don't see moths. I don't see holes in any other wool anything of mine. Does anyone know what's going on? I will just keep patching away until someone answers...

8 comments:

  1. love how you are embracing the holes it's becoming a fabulous one off!

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    1. Thank you, Mo. And its getting "off-er" by the day

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  2. no answer to the Why, I do however have an alternative, easy solution to filling the holes: woolfiller, repair holes with a felting needle check out this site www.woolfiller.com and you'll see exactly what I mean; I have done it myself with great success (the woman from the site happens to be Dutch as well!)

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    1. That is AMAZING! (What is more amazing is how I completely overlooked the fact that you can watch it in English and kept going through it in Dutch...)

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  3. this is a Magic Sweater. and so, magic stuff would of course be happening...

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    1. See? You did have the answer after all. Knew I could count on you.

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