I considered making the cat bed, but eventually came to the conclusion that Weetabix seems to be managing to sleep just fine without a fancy felted bed. I even browsed a yarn shop a few times, thinking I might buy some yarn and a set of connected needles, but could never overcome my shock at the price of the yarns, my overwhelmedness at the sheer number of yarn options with very little information on how to expect the various yarns to behave, and my embarassment to ask the yarn shop proprietress any questions because any such questions would surely have outed me as a yarn shop impostor.
Now I'm compacting, so buying needles would be out of the question (though I suppose I could keep an eye out for some at estate sales and thrift stores - maybe if I were lucky I'd find some explosive ones!). New yarn is probably out of the question, too. I could almost justify it by claiming that buying a crafting supply for making a homemade substitute for something I would otherwise buy new was within my personal compacting rules, but it doesn't feel right to me - probably because I wouldn't actually otherwise buy a new cat bed. So I would have to go to thrift shops and estate sales looking for sweaters to take apart, which seems like far more effort than I'm up for - especially since, as I said, the cat seems to be getting plenty of sleep without a fancy felted cat bed. And really, the more I think about it, I realize that putting all that effort into making something I don't really need at all is actually in violation of the conceptual compact ideal of simplifying life.
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I considered making the cat bed, but eventually came to the conclusion that Weetabix seems to be managing to sleep just fine without a fancy felted bed. I even browsed a yarn shop a few times, thinking I might buy some yarn and a set of connected needles, but could never overcome my shock at the price of the yarns, my overwhelmedness at the sheer number of yarn options with very little information on how to expect the various yarns to behave, and my embarassment to ask the yarn shop proprietress any questions because any such questions would surely have outed me as a yarn shop impostor.
Now I'm compacting, so buying needles would be out of the question (though I suppose I could keep an eye out for some at estate sales and thrift stores - maybe if I were lucky I'd find some explosive ones!). New yarn is probably out of the question, too. I could almost justify it by claiming that buying a crafting supply for making a homemade substitute for something I would otherwise buy new was within my personal compacting rules, but it doesn't feel right to me - probably because I wouldn't actually otherwise buy a new cat bed. So I would have to go to thrift shops and estate sales looking for sweaters to take apart, which seems like far more effort than I'm up for - especially since, as I said, the cat seems to be getting plenty of sleep without a fancy felted cat bed. And really, the more I think about it, I realize that putting all that effort into making something I don't really need at all is actually in violation of the conceptual compact ideal of simplifying life.