Nov. 1st, 2014

darchildre: clark kent drinking cocoa with his mom (cocoa with the kents)
I have this red sweater - it's long and it buttons up the front and it's 100% wool but not so thick that it's too warm to wear in the autumn and early spring and I love it. I've had it since college. Towards the end of college, it started developing thin patches at the elbows and holes under the arms, so I put it away in the back of my closet because I couldn't bear to get rid of it. And it stayed there for a while, until a couple of years ago, I decided to fix it. I knit patches for the elbows and learned to darn to fix the holes under the arms (and the tiny moth holes - it's the only sweater I own that has ever developed moth holes) and I knit a new and extra pocket. And then it was once again my favorite sweater, if one that I didn't tend to wear out of the house.

Over the summer, it developed more moth holes, one big enough to need a new knitted patch, so I mended them all yesterday. Eventually, this sweater is going to develop into a my-grandfather's-axe situation, where it's entirely darns and patches and kinda sorta a new sweater, but right now, I'm just really happy to be wearing it again.

I feel like that's an excellent beginning to November.

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