This is a cotton cardigan that’s stitched together weirdly.

New to the sub, sure this comes up often but let's see em!

First time unraveling. Looking to purchase a sweater online. Can’t quite tell if these seams are ok or not….

Hey all, I have quite a bit of unraveled yarn that is just a little too fine to be comfortable to knit with. I've been holding it double for a while now but I was wondering if it would be worth the effort to ply it for some added strength/consistency.

I'm trying to get some yarn balls with just mohair.

Could anyone help me understand please?

If a sweater is made out of 50% mohair and 50% other materials does that usually mean when I unravel it it'll be 2 strands of yarn? Or does the mohair piece blend with the other one into a single strand?

Or would I have better luck looking for a 100% mohair sweater to unravel?

Unraveled a cotton/acrylic aran weight pullover from a yard sale in August and finished my Sevilla Blouse by Petite Knit this evening. Less than 1 yard of yarn left. Woohoo!

Latest unraveling project, a cotton/acrylic Lands End sweater from Goodwill. Will eventually be knitted into the Provence top by Ekaterina Vorobeva on Ravelry. Little hands are helping today!

I have been unraveling straight into cakes. How important is it to unravel into hanks? Is it because hanks can be washed before you re-knit the yarn?

The sweaters I have unraveled in the past have been sweaters that were knit for me and my mother by my grandmother that I had decided to repurpose into more modern looking styles. I would then wash and block the new items.

Is it better to wash the yarn before knitting?

I have been low key scouting the sweaters at my local thrift stores in case I came across one worthy of being a "yarn donor". I finally hit gold and it's such a find I'm actually torn about whether or not to unravel it. I found an Irish wool, hand knit in the round Irish sweater. It's beautiful and only has one hole in the cabling on the shoulder. I can mend the the hole and wear it or unravel it (and I would incorporate the original tag as well). Have any of you had second thoughts about unraveling your finds?

I have a butt load of acrylic yarn and I think some bamboo and very little cotton. I want to crochet clothes like a cardigan or hats before winter but I don't want it to stretch out weird or shrink in the wash. some of my yarn is unlabeled since I thrift yarn or I get it as gifts from friends who don't want to throw it away, so I don't know what I have but I currently can't afford more yarn. I'm semi-confident in my ability to tell the difference between types of yarn based off its texture, if it's a plastic-based yarn or not.

what yarn is recommended for clothes? what yarn is better for blankets?

if acrylic yarn is ok for a sweater, is it okay for a bikini or bralette? would it retain its shape even if it's stretched over my head or get wet?

some things make sense to me, like only use cotton for things like underwear, dish rags, or pot holders due to bacteria or heat damage. but I don't really know how well yarn or my projects will react to wear and tear or becoming wet. also, whats best for amigurumi?

When you thrift something to unravel do you wash then unravel or unravel->create->wash? Just wondering how everyone else does it. I'm new at this. Many thanks!

I spent hours spit splicing what seemed like good quality cashmere. Dense bouncy stitches, no pilling, great seams etc.

After skeining and washing to get the kinks out every single join fell apart. I checked the care label and it was machine washable at 40*C, which is the standard mixed fibre temperature in UK. It didn’t even say to use the wool programme, you could just chuck it in with similar colours.

“No pilling” is no longer a definitive sign of good quality yarn, unless the care label says “hand wash“ or “dry clean”.

As I’ve just got an electric spinning wheel I might use it for practice and make it up into ribbed hats to hide the lumps from the knots.

Would welcome some advice on whether it will behave in the same way as the good stuff. I was planning to ply it with a very similar colour but high quality yarn to get a sweater quantity of pastel pink fingering weight. And I have the perfect design for it in my head. I guess swatching and washing is the answer, but any words of experience would be really welcome.

Hi all so as the title says, I've been going to thrift stores and buying cheap sweaters to frog for yarn for a few years now, however, I've always run into the same problem of the yarn separating once I frog it. So a once twisted together, probably cotton, yarn, just separates into four or five strands and is difficult to work with. Does anyone else run into this problem, and if so do you have any solutions?

It doesn't matter if I go from the piece to the yarn winder immediately, it always just un-twists as soon as it's not in a stitch.