When I was in college, an older woman in my neighborhood confided conspiratorially to me as I admired her knitting, “do you know where I get my yarn?” I thought she was going to tell me about a hidden yarn shop in a nearby town. I wasn’t prepared for her revelation to change my crafting world “I unravel it from sweaters I buy at thrift stores.” A sweater’s worth of yarn for $3.99?! Later that day, I bought several sweaters at Value Village, took them home, and began to unravel them. I remember the long snakes of kinky blue yarn all over the living room of my apartment! What a mess! But unraveling was fun and I did feel good about recycling the yarn and getting some great blue wool.