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Should you shop on Thanksgiving?

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Did you know that Costco doesn’t open on Thanksgiving day? To me, it seems like the right thing to do. Thanksgiving is all about family and spending time with your loved ones.

You can give shopping a break on at least one day of the year. And it’s not as if there aren’t 100’s of other stores that are open. And of course, the biggest shopping day of the year is just one day after that day.

In a hard hitting article on Huffington Post, author Matt Walsh echoes this sentiment by saying that if you shop on Thanksgiving, you are part of the problem.

While I don’t completely agree with this viewpoint, he makes valid points about the consumerist culture that we live in.

Go have a read: Should you shop on Thanksgiving?

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Comments

  1. i spent years working black Friday in retail. i have never seen such awful people as those who shopped on that day. I would never shop on a holiday, I agree that those clerks should should be home with family. I don’t shop black friday either. I would have to hurt someone if I was in one of those crowds.

  2. I hate to disappoint you, but guess what? Costco *is* open on Thanksgiving, at least in Boise, ID. I was deeply saddened to see them join the ranks of…other retailers, who need not be named. Low blow, that. :/

  3. In sympathy to those who have to work on Thanksgiving I wouldn’t shop on Thanksgiving. People who work in places like hospitals need to work on Thanksgiving but there is no need to have 4 million retail workers on the job on that day.

  4. Tried to leave this comment yesterday, but apparently it didn’t go through…Costco *is* open on Thanksgiving, at least it is where I live. I was deeply disappointed to find this out, via a flyer from them. This whole Black Every Single Day of the Week thing is getting out of hand!

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Stitch Your Favorite Fruit on a Sweater

The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.” 

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them. 

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits. 

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves. 

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit. 

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy. 

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]