My $3,000 Guaranteed Weight Loss Sweater

springlering62
springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
edited January 29 in Health and Weight Loss
My sweater is worth at least $3,000 and saved me tens of thousands of calories.

How, you ask?

Over 300 hours invested, figuring my time at a mere $10 per hour. You can’t have dirty hands while doing needlework, and hands busy elsewhere aren’t mainlining sweets and treats into my mouth.

This is, btw, “bedspread weight” cotton thread, not yarn, although a yarn sweater I saw on Etsy inspired it. Each square takes a little less than 30 minutes.

How are you keeping YOUR hands occupied?

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Next up, a needlepoint housewarming pillow for a Tuxedo cat owner. Have a very short timeline on this one. Must be done in two weeks. No time to snack for sure.
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  • Lulabelbo
    Lulabelbo Posts: 210 Member
    Beautiful!
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,751 Member
    That is a very beautiful sweater! Great work and great idea for a thread. I have no hobbies like that currently (really should try to learn something), but I recently adopted an 8-year-old cat who loves to be petted, so my hands are definitely busy a lot more now!
  • ddsb1111
    ddsb1111 Posts: 928 Member
    I’m super impressed and love this post. Hope you update with the finished tuxedo cat.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,601 Member
    Amazing!! I love your work, and your outlook!!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    edited January 30
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Amazing!! I love your work, and your outlook!!

    And I’m still laughing about the lady with the red light belt wanting to know how to log her “600 calorie an hour loss”.

    Give that woman some thread and a needle.
  • poodle_whisper
    poodle_whisper Posts: 33 Member
    as an aside...these granny square sweaters are all the rage and very hot right now. maybe you could start an etsy shop and make some of that 3k back
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    edited January 30
    @poodle_whisper when I look at the Etsy ads for $100 I have this sad image of some poor Asian woman sweating to churn these things out. I know the work involved.

    I know this and still, when I went to one of the Stans last year and made an offer on a suzani, the woman looked at me hard, and said “do you know how much work I have in this?” I gave her full price and apologized. Then I sat with her for a few minutes while she showed me the technique. She used a hoop and tiny crochet hook. Amazing. A suzani style by me is next, after I finish the tuxedo cat pillow.

    Everyone else was middlemen and never brought it up. I felt dreadful for the women selling so cheap that the middlemen were cheap and still had room to negotiate.

    I’m going to Guatemala soon with a textile tour that insists on fair value for makers. I like that and will respect it. I just got carried away on the last trip. There was so much, and it was so beautiful. Taking a weaving class there, too. Excited!
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,663 Member
    Ohhh, I want your sweater!:D
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,053 Member
    Wow, that's different, and very nice! I'm more of a fleece kind of person to be honest, but I do appreciate those things as long as I don't need to do them myself. Give me a hammer, powertools, whatever. No needles please.

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