I so enjoyed watching this. When I was a child, my gran would unpick our worn out or outgrown sweaters and use the yarn to knit blankets. She wound the yarn into skeins around the back of a dining chair. After the skeins had been soaked, washed and dried, it was my job to hold the them across my wrists while she wound the yarn into balls. I learned the knack of moving my arms slightly as she wound, so that the yarn came off smoothly.

There is something so satisfying about unraveling! Great tips!! I will definitely shop for sweaters to frog. I tried once and it had a seam 😑

thank you so much, your video was very helpful!!now i'm sitting in a chair and unraveling my old sweater, so happy about it
lots of love!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

These videos are so satisfying

I have a sweater that is wool, and it came from the thrift store. I bought it so I could pull the sleeves off of it to make legwarmers. This is when I just was starting to learn to knit and a friend of mine said let’s go to the store and we’ll look for some sweaters that we can salvage the yarn. Anyhow, I still look upon your YouTube and it made me remember that I have that sweater with its disconnected arms, lol, I am now going to frog that sweater. It’s a very nice wool. I very well now and I could make my own leg warmers from knitting, as opposed to cutting off the arms of a sweater. This is such a great idea! Especially for people who don’t have a lot of money to spend on good yarn, or even good acrylic yarn. I have a huge stash, of luxury horns, anything from yak to camel to Cashmere to good wool, which of course is not cheap. I just needed something to trigger that memory of buying that sweater, I will be checking out my thrift stores more often now. Thank you so much for this video and for the instruction.

so satisfying & can't wait to see what you make with it all!

Thank you for letting us see all the noodling bits. If you had made it look too easy I would have tried my first unravel project and assumed I was making mistake after mistake.   Well done.  Thank you!

Thank you! I have a beautiful cashmere Eileen Fisher oversized black high neck sweater I’ve worn so much that I have a hole in the elbow. I’ve held on to it, now I can check it to see if I can frog it and make something new!

When i gind a sweaters, it goes in the freezer foe 3 days then wash. Then unravel. Thanks for sharing

Great video! I’d love to see what a surged edge looks like, to know what won’t work. 😊

Thanks so much !

Great video!

I love watching it all come  apart.  I need to get out and find a sweater to gently take apart now. That was beautiful wool to make into something for yourself.  Keep us posted.😂

This was really useful! I have a bunch of my own knitting waiting to be unwound and reknit, but I’m procrastinating because I hate the process! It is great to get any tips and tricks to make it easier. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t quite so thorough in weaving in my ends 😂

Interesting! Quite a lot of yarn harvested 😮.

Hello xx in the past I have made the wool into skeins x I'd then hand wash to revive the wool x once dried I would wind into balls x so satifying❤

This video was so helpful.  I just thrifted a 50% wool/50% linen sweater that I plan to frog.

Oooh this is so fun to watch!! I have a cotton cashmere jumper from vinted love the colour but not the style or fit. Guess I need to get into knitting 😅

I have reclaimed yarn from thrifted sweaters myself and absolutely LOVE the process. You provided great tips in this as well as your previous video. I especially appreciate your suggestion about washing sweaters from thrift stores BEFORE unraveling. If you reclaim sweaters frequently, I would suggest maybe wearing a mask. The amount of lint and fibers in the air was very surprising to me when I first started this practice. I only saw your channel yesterday evening. I appreciate your content so subscribed and am looking forward to watching more of your videos. Personally, you could make a video of just unraveling a sweater and I would watch. Just a very relaxing activity.

So interesting. I was directed here after your Rivendell etc. podcast.  I did laugh when you wrote that you had used the ends to "stuff a canary." Happily, I knew that you meant a knitted canary and not that you had branched out into taxidermy LOL!