short story about the yarn:

about 15 minutes away from where i live, there’s a carpet company that had a fire some time in 2013 or so. they replaced everything, including the carpet yarn. even though this yarn wasn’t damaged from the fire or even by the smoke, they didn’t want to just throw away the yarn. it was free to the public on one or two specified days.

a woman from my SnB went, and gathered up a lot of the yarn, with the SnB group in mind. on the day she brought the yarn, a lot of us took most of it home, myself included.

This mat is made from that yarn.