Unraveling a sweater: not as easy as it looks!

       One thing to remember with knitting: DON'T BRING SCISSORS ANYWHERE NEAR IT! That will just make a huge mess, and will leave the yarn unraveling all over the place and you won't be able to use the little bits that will result. Now that that's out of the way, when done right unraveling a sweater is pretty darn fun. It's really relaxing, as long as the yarn doesn't break of course. If you are familiar with knitting, which I am thanks to my Nana :) , unraveling a knit item seems simple enough, but I thought I would consult my friend the internet just in case. This is the website that I looked at: http://www.craftleftovers.com/blog/archives/401 and it was fairly helpful, but one thing it did not mention: if the parts of your sweater are sewn together then you actually do have to use a scissor to cut the sewing, and you do need to be supremely extremely careful not to cut the yarn because then you'll just find broken spots when you're knitting and it isn't particularly fun to keep rejoining the yarn.

       It's pretty important to choose an item that isn't too worn out if you're expecting to be able to just re-knit the yarn into your own item. I'm not sure if it is because of my unbelievable strength or the yarn was worn out, but when I was unraveling the sleeve of my sweater the yarn broke in one or two spots. Not to belittle my awesome strength, but it was probably just because the cashmere is really soft and the sweater is used. 

      I chose this sweater because the yarn is thicker than most of the other sweaters I saw, so the project would go faster than with the painfully thin yarns. The knitted parts are sewn together at the shoulders, along the sleeves and down the sides, which made it a little annoying to unravel because the yarn kept getting stuck on the threads, but I guess it turned out fine? You can use any material, but I personally prefer natural fibers because they contain oil whereas unnatural fibers don't and so dry out my hands when I am working with them. And of course cashmere is so freaking soft!