Today's lesson: taking apart a sweater. Below is a sweater that I got at a thrift shop purely based on its softness. It's very worn cotton- smooth, soft, and comfy. The sweater wasn't my style, nor would it fit me so I decided it had to be taken apart and repurposed. The reason why I'm posting this now is because in a few days, I'll show the final product... the typical crocheted fingerless gloves. Nothing special, but they're turning out great so far. It's only taking 1/6th of the yarn from the sweater, but it's so nice to see a project from complete start to complete finished. Anywhosers, the original sweater:
Next is a close-up of what it looked like in its original glory. Nice pattern, but not for me.
I tried to multitask- take a photo, seam rip, and watch Scrubs. Not a good photo. Please ignore it.
It took about 45 minutes total to take it apart as I was not paying full attention to the unwinding. Here's the final product- one of the 3 balls of yarn. I wish I had an unending amount of it, it's by far the best yarn I've worked with. The WIP next to the yarn is my sister's wedding present (so far 6 months late). I'll write about it another day.
Have a sweater you'd like to repurpose? The Cashmere Connoisseur has a superb tutorial with photos and everything. That's a much better explanation than I could ever do without you sitting next to me walking you through it.
Part I:
Part II:
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