A holiday yarn: Creating the Christmas sweater
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Walnuts. Tree ornaments. Bells. The cultural obsession with unsightly Christmas sweaters knows no limits.
A quick Web search offers a variety of commercial outlets catering to the ugly sweater market: myuglychristmassweater.com, uglychristmassweaterparty.com, uglysweaterstore.com.
But the true spirit of the ugly Christmas sweater may live most vividly at the Animal Ark Thrift Store on the east side of St. Paul.
There, Darlissa McDonald — a woman with imagination and a glue gun — waits to assemble any sweater you can imagine, and probably a few sweaters you can't.
The store raises money for Animal Ark's no-kill animal shelter. MPR News paid the store a visit to meet McDonald and document her creative process.
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