what to do with a sweater's worth of wool?

I have an old sweater I'll never wear again as it's a bit tight and has a defect where a dog got a tooth caught in it.

I want to unravel it and reuse the wool. Do you think there would be enough in it for a crocheted scarf? It was a 'boughten' sweater, pullover with long sleeves.

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Kalmia
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Kalmia

Ifyou have your `crochet pattern` and it sys how much wool you need, you can weight your sweater and know if you have enough wool. [omit the buttons weight] Now some questiions ? is the sweater hand knit ? or machine knit? this makes a difference to the unraveling , !! If it is machine knit [ and the slleves are sewn by machine , Better check out if the Sleeves were not CUT and sewn as a part of a sweater , and thus they will have many tiny short threads, which will make your crochet efforts harder !! If it is hand knit it might be easier to unravel. find a plastic clothes hanger of the kind that has Skirt hooks, unravel your threads, make a loop and wrap you thread from hanger part to one skirthook , back to hanger than to second skirt loop , after you wrapped like this the body of the sweater , taken another hok for the sleeves, Prepare a luke warm bowl of water with some baby shampoo , dip hooks into water until all wool is WET ,,,,, change to clean luke water , and do the same , now hang the`wool hooks ` to drip in the shower , after 2 days hang them somwhere dry and windy Not in the sun ,, after

3 days feel inside if they start to dry , and if they did roll them into nice balls . mirjam
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mirjam

Thanks for the washing tips. I'd never even thought of doing that.

The sweater was NOT handknit, I'll have to check the sleeves. No matter what, that sweater is coming apart, even if I have to make a few grannies for the soldier-afghan project. I just can't toss it out and I know no one will buy it in a thrift shop (that dog defect again...)

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Kalmia

Kalmia , if it was sewn in parts [ which i want you to check !!!! you could also cut it up into squares , First zigzag around the wanted sqaure size !!! than [ make same lines for other squares , than cut between the lines of the squares , than find some nice matching wool and crochet around those squares , until you have the wanted size of your shawl !!! Washing wool instructions fit all kinds of wool creations . But if it is an item , Let it drip in the sink , than roll up in a towel , lay on floor /flat place to dry till almost dry than let air ,, best of luck mirjam

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mirjam

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