Today’s Project 365 photo:
This was a woman’s sleeveless jumper, but I’ve harvested the yarn and it will become a Hooded Baby Cardigan. I thought it might be nice to share the before photo of this cardigan, and I have to admit the yarn makes a wonderful photo subject… at least in my opinion. I see this being the subject of many of my daily photos.
I think harvesting yarn from charity shop jumpers can be a fun and economical way of knitting up items for personal use. This particular jumper was bought for £3. If anyone is interested in the steps to harvesting yarn from charity shop jumpers, then you first might want to know what to look for in a jumper (particularly the type of seaming). Neauveau.com has a great post about seams and unravelling knitwear. You might also want to have a look at this recent article from Knitting Daily which talks about the best way to unravel the yarn itself and how to straighten out the kinks.