I love cashmere sweaters.

I keep my sweaters in a closed cabinet with lavender to deter moths and worms.

My family knows this so in addition to buying sweaters for myself I also have been gifted beautiful items.

My sweaters  range from dark to light but seem to maintain a cool color palette.

I have some sweaters that are over 20 years old which have succumbed to moth damage.  I wear them as long as I can (sometimes as comfy undershirts to hide the holes) but have finally decided to get rid of some that are too far gone.

I packed all nine sweaters in a mailing box — weight 4 pounds, 1 ounce.

Unfortunately I just can’t throw away cashmere so I searched the internet to see if anyone was recycling the fiber.  I found one artist, Cathy Wade, who is using recycled cashmere to make new items so I contacted her to see if she wanted 9 clean but holey sweaters for her work.  She said, “yes.” They’re on their way to her.

Jo