(Side note: the sweater yarn is worth recycling because it is 58% wool... thats enough wool for me!!!!)
1. I spent an evening picking out the seams and winding the yarn into skeins (wound it around my arm) and then tying the skeins with little pieces of red yarn to keep them neat and not tangled. Look how curly the yarn is after being in a "knitted" state for so long!
2. I soaked the skeins in some warm water for awhile, squeezed them in some towels to get the water out and then hung them from doorknobs/hooks with a can of beans or whatever as a "weight"... this helps get all those kinks out of the yarn!
3. Once they were completely dry, I used my awesome ball winder and swift to wind them into these pretty skeins! Look how much yarn I got from this sweater.... SWEET!
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I love recycling yarn. I used to buy sweaters from charity shops just to recycle the yarn. Now I live in France and there are no charity shops and I really miss them. I wind the wool into balls straight from the sweater (having washed the sweater) and then into hanks using my swift (not as pretty as yours). Then I use my wool winder just like you do.
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