[attycasner]

Three little beauties ready to be unraveled and reclaimed. Total cost $9

 

[Deb-Babbles]

Nice find.

 

[raindancer]

Score!

 

[windowwonde28941]

Ahhh I am happy I not along .

 

[Yarn Happy]

Happy froging.

 

[Pocahontas]

I love unraveling sweaters for the yarn also (love the thrift stores). But the grey one and cream are just too awesome to unravel. The pink one, yes, I'd unravel that one. Great buy!

 

[Pocahontas]

I love unraveling sweaters for the yarn also (love the thrift stores). But the grey one and cream are just too awesome to unravel. The pink one, yes, I'd unravel that one. Great buy!

 

[Sine]

Great find! I like the white one, too!

 

[Jalsh]

Don't you have a big lavender cabelled project to start?

 

[run4fittness]

Nice, indeed.

 

[attycasner]

Don't you have a big lavender cabelled project to start?

I am a Gemini. That means I have the attention span of a four-year-old. LOL

 

[attycasner]

I love unraveling sweaters for the yarn also (love the thrift stores). But the grey one and cream are just too awesome to unravel. The pink one, yes, I'd unravel that one. Great buy!

Which do you do first unravel and then wash or wash the garment and then Untavel?

 

[Pocahontas]

Which do you do first unravel and then wash or wash the garment and then Untavel?

I've only gotten 100% wool sweaters, so I unravel first, then wind into hanks, tie at intervals and soak in a wool wash. Then air dry.

 

[attycasner]

I've only gotten 100% wool sweaters, so I unravel first, then wind into hanks, tie at intervals and soak in a wool wash. Then air dry.

Thanks. That's what I am going to do. I built myself a little knitting knobby out of PVC pipe to wind the yarn into skeins, will tie it in 3 or4 places, soak in Eucalan and let it dry. Previously I tried winding on the knobby, soaking and letting it dry in the knobby but that seemed to stretch it too thinand I could only do one skein at a time.

 

[Jalsh]

I am a Gemini. That means I have the attention span of a four-year-old. LOL

That explains my brother! Ya learn something new every day.

 

[KateWood]

That's great.

 

[MsKathy]

That's what happens to me; I get home with some sweaters to recycle, and someone says, "Oh, that would fit me!", or, "It's so pretty; don't you hate to take it apart?"

 

[seemyart]

so I guess the seams are not sewn?

 

[attycasner]

so I guess the seams are not sewn?

They are sewn with a chain stitch but they are not serged. That is the first thing I checked before I bought them. Unless they are machine knitted into sweater parts and sewn together with the chain stitch they are not good to reclaim. The ones with serged seams were just been cut out of a piece of knitted fabric and they produce very short pieces of yarn not skeins. I learned this lesson, of course, the hard way.

 

[dragonswing]

I tried unraveling a sweater once. It was disastrous.