Knitting: Recycling Yarn – the poor student chronicles

 

 

 

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This really was a labour of love. This bundle of yarn got itself tangled and took me an hour to untangle and wind. And I have so many more to go.

In my endeavor to get yarn with money I don’t have. Students budget, you know. (“student’s budget” is my favourite euphemism)

I scoured the Share Thrift Store and it so happened to be half off day, so I got a green sweater for $2.25. I underestimated the time it would take to undo it, however. I spent an entire 4 hours taking it apart and frogging half of the sweater. I have to say, while this does save money, it is completely time consuming and inefficient. Time is galleons and all that.

20130118-034637.jpgThis sweater happened to be a 10% wool and 90% acrylic blend. For $2.25 and a whole sweater’s worth of worsted weight yarn, that’s pretty darn good.

I got two other sweaters too.

20130118-034622.jpgThis is the one I take apart next. On a side note, this one made me sneeze like crazy. I suspect the angora hair that floated through the air as I pulled apart the seams. This might be the end of my dreams to get an Angora rabbit. 

BUT IT’S SO CUTE.

Well anyways, I frogged the sweater onto a chair and then soaked it in warm water.

20130118-034554.jpg20130118-034604.jpgThere it is on the last panel hanging to dry. And that’s how we got to the first photo. Don’t get your yarn tangled, children, it makes for preventable headaches.