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perigrine
June 14th, 2006, 09:30 PM
I found this yarn in a size 10 jumper in a thrift store, loved it enough to buy, with the express purpose of unravelling it to make something out of. So I decided to use it to make a shrug using the "fluffy pink shrug" directions. Piccy here (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/perigrine2/05-06-06039.jpg), to fit a size 14-16. Its purple, navy blue, green and white-ish/blue.
Lunatic84
June 14th, 2006, 09:52 PM
that is a very, very beautiful shrug! Great job, and I love the idea of recycled yarn! I am going to go through some of my old sweaters that I hate to part with and see what I can create with them.
:cheerbeautiful!
NoLooseEnds
June 14th, 2006, 10:36 PM
Beautiful! Love the colors...is the yarn worsted weight?
CrazeeMoi
June 14th, 2006, 10:37 PM
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeautiful!!
perigrine
June 14th, 2006, 10:44 PM
Beautiful! Love the colors...is the yarn worsted weight?

I have no idea. It is really thick. About the thickness of a G/H hook.
KateCrochets
June 14th, 2006, 11:47 PM
Wow! What great colors! I can see why the yarn in the sweater called out to you to be "rescued" (that's what I call recycling yarn... rescuing it for the project it really wanted to be :lol)! I :manyheart recycled yarn and I :manyheart your shrug!

Great work, and thanks for sharing it with us!
perigrine
June 14th, 2006, 11:51 PM
Wow! What great colors! I can see why the yarn in the sweater called out to you to be "rescued" (that's what I call recycling yarn... rescuing it for the project it really wanted to be :lol)! I :manyheart recycled yarn and I :manyheart your shrug!

Great work, and thanks for sharing it with us!

thanks! There was no way I could find those colors now days. I love them. Cept I wouldn't wear it :( I like long backs
wildthing1058
June 15th, 2006, 12:01 AM
oh wow that came out nice
Crochet Fanatic
June 15th, 2006, 12:52 AM
What a great idea for recycling your yarn! It is so cute!:cheer
Yarn Duck
June 15th, 2006, 12:59 AM
Very nice! Great use of recycled yarn. :cheer
mecread
June 15th, 2006, 01:28 AM
oh wow! LOVE it .... caterpiller=butterfly! love the colors of the yarn.
AngrySnail
June 15th, 2006, 04:09 AM
ive always thought about doing that, buying an old jumper and unravelling it!! Its b eautiful, you did a great job!!!

Belinda xoxox
Roli
June 15th, 2006, 06:28 AM
Very nice transformation. Now you must gift it to a special friend who will appreciate the work that went into it. :)
artemis
June 15th, 2006, 08:42 AM
Well done! You took a homeless old garment and gave it new life. It is gorgeous!
Debbi-a1
June 15th, 2006, 02:56 PM
Great job. Love the colors!
Adri
June 16th, 2006, 03:27 PM
What a fun, warm sweater! I really like the colours, too!
Kiki
June 16th, 2006, 03:36 PM
It's so pretty! I love it!
Brandy
June 16th, 2006, 06:30 PM
That's an excellent idea! Great job!
kelro
June 16th, 2006, 06:42 PM
Very pretty colors ! Nice job:cheer
christinascrochethaven
June 18th, 2006, 12:10 PM
:manyheart Nice job of recycling! Love the colors and shrug
Hellen
June 18th, 2006, 01:29 PM
It's very nice! :manyheart And I like the idea of recycled yarn. We usualy have a lot of things that are worth recycling!
cmr3877
June 21st, 2006, 11:04 AM
Very nice! :clap

You were so brave, I would have worried that I would get halfway through and it would stop unravelling!
Krystal16
June 21st, 2006, 12:06 PM
Now you'll have me going through the thrift store looking for yarn items, too. How do you know if a garment has "rescue-able" yarn?
perigrine
June 21st, 2006, 08:08 PM
Now you'll have me going through the thrift store looking for yarn items, too. How do you know if a garment has "rescue-able" yarn?

um, instinct? I'm not being flip here, I use the same feel for 'undoing jumpers' as I do when sussing out thrift store yarn.

I judge by content and the type of yarn in the garment. There have been quite a few of those 'thick/thin' yarns knitted up. I passed on those, same with the 'matted' mohair and other types. Felted wool is not good either. I tried to unravel a mohair sweater with great seams, and after wrecking it enough so that it is no unwearable, gave up on trying to unravel it. I learnt really fast not to attempt something that 'I think I can undo' :eek

I used the info from this site (http://www.neauveau.com/recycledyarn.html) as a guide for the seams and after undoing just one cotton sweater decided that wasn't a great idea, because it was made up of a pile of smaller strands, and if one was cut/broken it detracted from the over all appearance. (Yes, ok, I realise that bought cotton does too, but this was unwound and so looked...messy).

Holes or stains aren't an issue, coz you can just skip those parts when winding your 'new' yarn up.
perigrine
June 21st, 2006, 08:11 PM
Very nice! :clap

You were so brave, I would have worried that I would get halfway through and it would stop unravelling!

I was too, but a decent yank on the strand usually fixed it..and if it broke, well, who cared? I got a gorgeous pound or so of yarn for about 4$ US. It was worth it ;)