Hello everyone! I'm not a knitter, but my God, could my mother knit. I'm in my 60s and still wearing the Icelandic sweaters she made for me and herself. I have a bee in my bonnet to buy a second-hand Aran knit in bainan but a lot of what I'm seeing on eBay is clearly machined. (I remembered from Mom to ask them to send pics of the insides.) Parts of this look done by hand, but clearly it was pieced together and those were machined. Is the entire thing machined? It's from a big mill that sold a lot of machine knits in the 90s. I'm also suspicious because of the way it stretched out. The body of my hand knits stretch and shrink evenly with the band, not separately. Thank you for the education!

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Grabbed this Target sweater from Goodwill and found a bazillion exposed ends underneath the edging…so annoying! I’ve never seen this before

hi all I was pointed to this sub by the lovely folks on r/yarnaddicts !! so this store bought acrylic knit was gifted to me by my grandma. I accidentally stained it in the wash. I’m a bit attached to it because of grandma. Trying to figure out what the best thing to do here is.

I only crochet, so if I were to unravel it, it would not be to make this same sweater. I have no experience unraveling, so i’m not sure what the pro/cons are. It is acrylic.

How would you all deal with the stain?

I have an Irish knit sweater I started making over 50 years ago, actually finished it twice. Natural color 100% wool. It's finally starting to show wear, I had to do a blanket stitch over the cuffs that were fraying. I just wear it around the house for warmth. I'm wondering, if it gets much worse, is it worth it to try to recycle the yarn at that advanced age?

I thrifted this sweater, I think it's acrylic, definitely something plastic. Now that I've been wearing it a few times I realized I don't like wearing it, but I don't want to donate or throw it away either, because the problem is it's condition. I've been thinking that maybe I could make 1-2 hats out of it so the plastic doesn't land in a landfill, but does it make sense if it's in this condition?

I’m torn on whether or not I should try it. It’s a very nice sweater but it’s also a very nice yarn…