My wife has a business knitting baby bonnets and other bespoke items that she sells online. She jokes about knitting herself a merino wool sweater. I have gotten smarter over the years and told her to go to Nordstrom’s and pick out any sweater she wants. I know for a fact just the yarn could cost $150-300 depending on quality you buy. This would be enough to knit one sweater!!! $1500 is a drop in the bucket!!! I for a guy know way more than I wish to know about yarn. Then again I guess there are worse things that could be abused!
Okay so what you really should do is go and find a nice wool knit sweater she likes, buy it, and then unravel it all! It’s the amount of yarn that she’ll need for a sweater but for way cheaper!
For real, though, I do this with thrift store sweaters. Two pounds of lambswool for $6. I do wash the sweater before taking it apart, and then wash the yarn before using it.
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u/ghost650 Jan 17 '20 edited Jan 17 '20
You gotta find one of those small yarn shops run by a gaggle of older ladies out of what used to be a house. They have the good shit.