Help with a repurposing project, please

The old saying – when you’ve dug yourself into a hole, stop digging.  But I sympathize.  It is tough to put a lot into a project and have to scrap it.  You’re not alone.  I’ve got boxes full of such projects, so know the feeling.

I bought some Alpaca sox at a local shop – they fell apart.  And I don’t use sheep’s wool, because trekking you’re constantly on the move, and wool takes forever to dry out.

I think somewhere I’ve got an old Holubar sleeping bag kit, but not sure where the down filling is, but know the shell pieces should be around somewhere.  If this would help with making a sleeping bag, or even a quilt, make a note here that you’ve PM’d me and I’ll send what’s there to you.  MYOG can be frustrating for sure.

Thank you Sam, that’s very kind.

I haven’t put any effort into this project at all, apart from pick a ton of stitches out, simply because I’ve got no idea what to do with this stuff.  A lot of money in materials  will sit around, unless I find something to do with it, but that’s not the end of the world. With no sewing machine, I think the best course is get a friend of mine to sew this stuff to the underside of an old EE 40deg quilt I’ve got, unless an idea comes up here.

It was an expensive, borderline-psychotic consumerist freakfest, that alpaca, but I’m out and back to my beat up smartwool!

If the pattern is right, make a poncho, call it a serape, and look like Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns.

^That’s my default option, I think, It’s a glaringly electric blue color, think Hipster Stares at Blank Screen. I may have to make a jedi cloak instead of a serape.

^that is the funniest post I have read on BPL in a while