How To Unravel A Sweater To Recycle Yarn. This is the sweater we will be unraveling.
Turn your sweater inside-out, grab a pair of sharp scissors and let's get started! There are good seams and bad seams. This is an example of a good seam. It looks like two tiny braids side-by-side. You can cut between those two braids of a good seam and unravel a super-long strand of yarn that you can wind into a huge skein. Newbie unravelers will want to cut the thread one bit at a time, which is fine.
I've cut the seam from the bottom of the sweater to the end of the sleeve. At the top of the sleeve are little loops! FLASH FORWARD: See the pile of yarn ramen in this photo? When you unravel a sweater that is made of many colors, you will usually find a knot where the two colors meet. Here is the collar and shoulder seams of the sweater, still waiting to be unraveled. This is what a bad seam looks like. On a whim I pull the little thread. But what do we do about the bad seam on each shoulder?
Tips for specific yarns. How To Make T-Shirt Yarn. Reader Blair liked our t-shirt yarn dishcloths, but had a major question about t-shirt yarn: "So I don’t know how when one piece of yarn ends, to begin again with a new one… Does that make sense?
Someone please email me.and tell me! " Well, Blair, I'll do you one better and write a whole post about it! How do you turn t-shirts into yarn, and then attach the ends? Read on! There are a few common methods for making t-shirt yarn. This seems to be the most common method for cutting a t-shirt into yarn, and it also seems the most time-economical. When you get to the end of one piece of yarn you can attach it like this: 1. Amanda's Happy Hearth shows how you can attach yarn ends simply by stitching through the ends of the t-shirts. 2.
Another way to attach ends is by just tying the ends together in a square knot (if you don’t mind the nubs in your finished project), or just twist them together when you are crocheting or knitting to create a more seamless join. 3. Recycled T-shirt - Dogs Tugga Toy. This home made dog toy is perfect for tug of war games or fetch.
It is so simple to make that even kids can put it together. It is a great project for fetes and fundraisers too. Washing Wool At Home - Wool Processing. S Focus on Spinning. Free Spinning & Dyeing Tutorials at Knitting-and.com. How To Spin Yarn From Fabric. Spinning yarn from fabric scraps is challenging and a fun way to upcycle old bedsheets and pillowcases into sculptural and functional works of art.
In order to spin this style of upcycled yarn you will need: 1. Ripped pieces of fabric (under 1/2 inch or 1 centimeter in width) 2. A very strong textured core yarn (like a linen/poly weaving warp thread, or hemp) - you will want a core that is rough so that the fabric doesn't slip off of it. 3. Intermediate wheel spinning skills and a basic knowledge of corespinning yarn. Also keep in mind that this yarn will be overtwisted, and impossible to set. Let's begin! To begin spinning, take your core thread and loop it thru your leader. When you get to the end of a strip of fabric, put the next strip on top and work the ends over and under each other to secure. As you get better with this technique your skill will be able to give your yarn more and more integrity.