*Update new pic 11/24*Is this sweater good for taking yarn from?

[Kimmiepie]

Update: Here are the new pics that I have. What do you think?

http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ers25/Sweater/

Password is: oatmeal



I was just recently introduced to the idea of taking yarn from wool sweaters (recycled wool?). But I read on this site http://www.az.com/~andrade/knit/thrifty.html that there are some things to avoid when looking for a sweater to use.

I'm in the process possibly getting this sweater from someone and I want to make sure I can actually use it. It is 100% wool. http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyb...47889442286594

http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyb...7875687037170\

Will this work? The article mentions something about serged seams...and I just don't know how to tell. She doesn't know either.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Kimmiepie]

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[fek&fuzz]

If you post clear pictures of the seams, that might get you an answer.

[Kimmiepie]

Sorry, they are her pics. As bad as this sounds, I don't exactly know where the seams are. Would that be the part where the arm meets the body?

[fek&fuzz]

It would be inside, on each side, maybe at the shoulders, maybe where the arms meet the shoulders.

If it's just a few bucks, I'd get it, and even if I couldn't turn it into yarn, I'd felt it for arm warmers and soakers, or something.

[Kimmiepie]

Thanks, I sent her a PM asking for those pics! You're probably right about just getting it anyway...from what I understand I can still use it, the yarn will just be in a bunch of short strands. I'll post a better pic later. Thanks for helping.

[iowaorganic]

Yeah- but you probably don't want a bunch of short strands to knit or crochet from. That would be an insane amount of either weaving the ends back in or felting together the yarn 'joints'. Felting the whole thing and then using it would be a whole lot better deal!

[Think of Winter]

You have to see the inside to know what kind of seams it has. Serged seams look like the edges of a t shirt, with lots of little loops of thread, not yarn, binding the cut edges of the pieces making up the garment. Sewn seams usually look like a ridge of stitches from the inside with no thread. If the seller can't find the seam, it may be knit in the round, which would make it especially easy to unravel. Have fun!

ETA: This doesn't look like a serged sweater. Serging is more common in inexpensive (not wool) knits and fine gauge knits. If it's serged, though, I wouldn't unravel it! A lot of short pieces of yarn won't be much fun. I'd either make longies or leg warmers out of it as is, or I'd felt it and make something out of the felt. Maybe a nice bag.

[Kimmiepie]

Thanks!

Well, her dh packed her camera because she's in early labor. : So she's just going to throw it in with the other item we're trading. If it works great, if not, I'll have to look into all these other things everyone is mentioning...longies, felting etc.

Thanks again!

[Kimmiepie]

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[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

From the looks of your new picture, it looks like the right kind of seam for unraveling.

Have fun!