It takes approximately 1400 meters of yarn to make a simple sweater and at least twice that to knit a "fancy" one. It also takes 4pounds of clean fleece to make the yarn.
Alaska, lovely state. Alaska is one of the few states I've thought about in a SATW sense. My headcanon is that she's exceptionally tall (because she's the largest state) adopted by America (her parents are Russia and the "original" Alaska, who represents native Alaskans as a whole), and close with Hawaii, who bonded with her because he's also adopted by America and the two of them are rather left out by their other siblings (not because they don't like them, but because they're so far away they're often forgotten).
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