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I’m one of those unravellers. I will unravel just about anything that does not have serged seams. Sometimes it’s a battle - the forty-year old, multi-strand, acrylic pullover I had whipped up one weekend in 1966, or the mistake-riddled beginnings of a crocheted top and a knitted shawl begun by a deceased member of our knitting group … in a lovely grey mohair yarn - and sometimes it’s a breeze.
To date, I have only unraveled two industrially knitted things. First was a shocking-pink fake-fur scarf - knitted in the round. After I finally figured out that it was four strands knitted spirally helix-wise, it was easy. Second was my latest yarny adventure, but I only unravelled the bottom six inches of the sleeves: Ravelry: JessicaJean's Shortening Sleeves on a Prada Cardigan
I have fun seeking out poorly made or damaged yarny items at secondhand stores, washing, unravelling, and repurposing the yarn.
One of my favourites began as:

Ravelry: JessicaJean's recycle variegated yarn 1.3k

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So far, it’s become two shawls:
First one:

Ravelry: JessicaJean's Third time is the charm?

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Second one: JessicaJean's Fireplace Shawl

Thank you for sharing your experience and for showing the way you reused the yarn! I like the pattern for your fire place shawl but reading the instructions it doesn't make sense on the increase - to me the pattern is only increasing one stitch on one side of the shawl and not both - will have to look at it again and experiment with a smaller stitch count to see what I am missing. This would be a good pattern for our Comfort Shawls and will reread the pattern to see if it gives measurements so I can get to the sizes that the ladies seem to want.
Again, thank you for sharing!