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sweensie · **Posted: 22-09-2008 , 07:07 AM** #5

Hi Chaos
Im a knitter and have several times unravelled jumpers in order to use the wool from them. There are jumpers that unravel easily and jumpers that are machine stitched (ie not handknit) at the edges so dont unravel easily. If anyones interested in finding out how to find the easy ones to unravel, let me know and Ill put together a few instructions for you!
Is the wool pure wool or is it a wool/acrylic mix or pure wool thats treated?
Its just that pure wool will felt but a lot of wools have been treated and as a result wont felt. If there is a label from the jumper and it says hand wash then its almost certainly untreated pure wool.
What you could do with it, if you are trying to get rid of it, is put it up on www.olannban.net, which is a knitters resource for Ireland. You will have to contact the administrator of the site, and put it up as an ad for anyone to take. Someone may be interested in it from the knitting/felting community.
To get rid of the crinkly bits, you need to wash it and hang it, in oder to do that you need to be able to wind it as if into a skein as otherwise you will just have a tangeled mess which will try your patience even more! Wind it around 2 chair backs, tie it in about 4 places with other wool, (to skein it you will then twist it so it twists in on itself, then put one end through another). Wash in warm water with some baby shampoo, dont agitate it too much, hang it to dry and put a weight on one end. Skein it when dry.
probably won't be possible if you have lots of short bits though.:-(
Best of luck!

	Posted: 22-09-2008 , 07:07 AM #5
sweensie Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 27	possible solution Hi Chaos Im a knitter and have several times unravelled jumpers in order to use the wool from them. There are jumpers that unravel easily and jumpers that are machine stitched (ie not handknit) at the edges so dont unravel easily. If anyones interested in finding out how to find the easy ones to unravel, let me know and Ill put together a few instructions for you! Is the wool pure wool or is it a wool/acrylic mix or pure wool thats treated? Its just that pure wool will felt but a lot of wools have been treated and as a result wont felt. If there is a label from the jumper and it says hand wash then its almost certainly untreated pure wool. What you could do with it, if you are trying to get rid of it, is put it up on www.olannban.net, which is a knitters resource for Ireland. You will have to contact the administrator of the site, and put it up as an ad for anyone to take. Someone may be interested in it from the knitting/felting community. To get rid of the crinkly bits, you need to wash it and hang it, in oder to do that you need to be able to wind it as if into a skein as otherwise you will just have a tangeled mess which will try your patience even more! Wind it around 2 chair backs, tie it in about 4 places with other wool, (to skein it you will then twist it so it twists in on itself, then put one end through another). Wash in warm water with some baby shampoo, dont agitate it too much, hang it to dry and put a weight on one end. Skein it when dry. probably won't be possible if you have lots of short bits though.:-( Best of luck!