YarnGeek’s Neighborhood

I wish the camera had not been scattered in all its parts to the four winds prior to the deconstruction of my last thrift store sweater purchase.

We have a very large thrift store down Route 1 South from where I live in Alexandria, Virginia. I believe it goes by the inspired name of Virginia Thrift. Remind me, please, that I ought to take a photo of it for you.

At any rate, I tend to do whirlwind tours through the place, digging only briefly at the back right corner of the store where they keep the grab-bags of crafty ingredients and fabric remnants, and then on the way to the registers I go down the aisle set up for men’s sweaters.

On my last trip down that aisle, I found a very large man’s cardigan that had obviously been hand knit. (ETA: The whole point of the title to this post is that the sweater reminded me very much of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, and was even the proper pale blue for a non-red-cardigan day in his Neighborhood.)

I am relatively certain the yarn is wool, because the sweater was ever so slightly felted before I started de-constructing it — a process which initially brought me a fair portion of pain and suffering, because I, ostensibly a knitter myself, forgot that if there are decreases anywhere in the knitting, you really need to pick apart and unravel from the *beginning*/top of the knitting, not the end/hem. ~facepalm~

In any event, cordial relations with ballwinder and knitting sense restored, there later came this:

This being a somewhat startling quantity of tweedy blue yarn of indeterminate fiber.

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to whether or not it’s wool?