January 08, 2004
saving the frogs
The sweater I'm wearing today has pretty much kicked the bucket.
It's too fuzzy (like blurry fuzzy as opposed to warm and fuzzy), the sleeves are just a bit too short, and I've grown to mildly dislike the yarn. Good reason to can it, right?
I have a problem though. I love the clasps on the sweater. These kind of clasps are sometimes called frogs. Like the Chinese-looking clasps that are black knots and loops? Yeah. Frogs. Before the garbage steals my sweater, I'm going to steal the clasps.
There's a picture of what the clasps are like. Lovely things. One thing that reassures me that sewing and its related activities are really for me is that I get so happy when I feel fabric or look at buttons or look at thread or see yarn and if I can touch it, too, well, ooooooo lala.
Mr.Guy was forced to go shopping for buttons with me once. (There was a massive sale, you see, and I wanted to take advantage of it in every city I could. Five cards of buttons for a dollar! Some of them retail for $12! Oh yes. When I picked him up at the airport in the big city, he had to go shopping. He said he didn't mind, but if he had to endure the entire button shopping experience, plus the previous ribbon extravaganza, well, I'll betcha that his eyes might have glazed over even as I talked about how fabulous it is to have really thick natural shell buttons as the thin ones break and they just don't look at nice. See? Eyes glazing as I type.)
He can attest to how happy it makes me to pick out buttons. He assured me that the 747 airplane buttons were a good purchase. He was so right.
BrilliantEditor was also sufficiently impressed, even as I spread out the huge number of buttons I'd purchased and started calculating how much money I'd saved (around $600). Of course, that's assuming that I would have bought them all...but we're not thinking rationally here.
In any case, I'm taking the clasps. I fear I will cause my sweater shame, but I believe it will understand. It will go on in this way, spreading its happiness in some way to all the other sweaters I own.
Posted by dotty at January 8, 2004 10:38 PM