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Skeins!
Today I finished the next step in a project that was started here a few months ago. We read in a knitting magazine about a lady who buys thrift store wool sweaters, unravels them, winds them into skeins, and knits new things out of the old yarn. We bought this rust colored sweater for three dollars at a thrift store. It is the perfect color for a hat and mittens to match a jacket I picked up at a garage sale. Out of today’s unraveling efforts I have gotten 650 yards of yarn! (And I haven't even done the sleeves yet!) If you do any knitting with real wool, you know how expensive that much yarn can be. The nails on the kniddy-knoddy (the board with the nails in it that Dad made for me) are exactly three feet apart, so I count as I go along and know how many meters I have in the end. To get very thorough instructions on how to unravel a sweater go to: http://www.neauveau.com/recycledyarn.html. To get instructions on how to wrap yarn into a skein go to: http://www.neauveau.com/wrapaskein.html. The next step will be to knit a scarf, mittens, and hat out of my new but old wonderful fiber!
All my supplies
All wrapped up on the kniddy-knoddy
Taking it off the kniddy-knoddy
Twisting it
The lovely skeins
—Posted by Martha
Posted by lilypress at July 29, 2005 3:07 PM
Comments
Hi
Yore doing agreat job rescuing the nise yarn from tha tsweater, i believe that mens sweaters preferably with turtleneck collars are the best ones to unravel. I think they got so much more yarn in them.
Was that rust one a mens turtleneck sweater ?
It even looks like it had RAGLAN sleeves, if so was the raglans easy to undo?
Maybe a pic of the ORIGINAL sweater?
Posted by: metty at August 15, 2005 8:41 AM
Since this is the first sweater that we have ever unraveled I am not sure about what kind are best. (Other then the good seam and bad seam part.) That makes sense that turtleneck sweaters would have more yarn in them. This one was originally a turtleneck, but I was unsuccessful at getting the neck piece to unwind. It wasn't raglan or a mans sweater either. Unfortunately, I didn't take a before picture because I wasn't thinking of the blog at that time. Thanks for your comment!
Posted by: Martha at August 18, 2005 10:33 PM
