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Recycling and Knitting

There are several ways a knitter can recycle.  I'm going to venture into just a few in this post. There are plenty of good ideas out there, just Google the two words.  And most of these good ideas require a certain amount of effort on your part, so plan ahead and leave plenty of time before you intend to pick up a pair of needles. A common way to recycle while you knit is to purchase thrift store wool sweaters.  The process  begins by checking labels to insure you are purchasing wool, deciding if it is worth the price, purchasing it, taking it home and then unraveling it.  After a few hours of dismantling you'll have wool that may be clean, maybe not, but is definitely wiggly because it has been previously used.  This is the time to make the wool clean and in the process also reduce its wiggliness.  I have found the best way to approach this is to either hand wash or gently machine wash the...