Spin with me: recycling acrylic yarn scraps
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Hello friends! As a viewer of this channel I assume you're interested in fiber arts, and thus have a great big yarn stash. Maybe some of it is collecting dust because your tastes in fibers, materials of colours has changed? That's certainly the case for me!
As a student I was an avid crocheter and mostly used cheap acrylic yarns for this. After discovering natural dyeing and spinning my acrylic yarn stash fell out of favour with me and has been sitting in baskets and cupboards ever since. Time for a change! Let's deconstruct these acrylic yarns and spin them into one beautiful, chaotic mess of a skein. Are you with me?
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UA-cam just gifted me your channel and I'm so happy!!!
I'm so glad you kept the yarns semi sorted by color so that the final result would be rainbow instead of grey!
I'm happy you think my channel is a gift 🥰
And yes, it would have been less lovely if all the colours got muddled together!
“I have become a yarn snob.” Yeah, I get it. I think almost all of us who spin, etc., go in that direction. I also have a fairly large acrylic yarn stash. I need to do something with it. Eventually. Some day.
Yeah, I've heard a lot of spinners encounter that same issue 😅
Your wheel is lovely.
Thank you 😁
Just found your channel, but I had to go back and see what else you've got going on. What a great idea. I have so many small bits from weaving (both wool and not) that could have this done to it. These would make really nice add-ins for batts as well if you have a drum carder too!
Give it a shot, it's real fun!
Your yarn turned out so beautifully!😁❤
Thank you ❤️
I’m so glad you stumbled onto my page leading me to your page! I have always wanted to spin my own yarn. I look forward to watching your other videos!
Yay for random UA-cam algorithm! 😁
Here is what I did with my leftover acrylic or other yarns: I sort them by colors or tones. I combine them together to make a thick yarn that I crochet with an 8mm or 10mm hook. I then make striped doormats
Doormats is a creative idea!
I love that idea!
this is a great idea! (also your dress is beautiful)
Dress is vintage and I love it very much 😁 thank you for watching and commenting 😁
Idea for u, mix the deconstructed acrylic with the wool fiber to make a sock yarn u can knit socks with!
Great idea! Thank you 😁
Hi Jente, Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast. I love this idea for using Acrylic Yarn that's left over.
I did use some of my yarn to make 2 Crocheted Scrap Blankets with.
I still have some left, so I maybe trying your idea out.
Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🐕
Have Fun trying it out! 😁
Thank you! Project!
Inspirational !
Thanks!
Skein that is "too big to be thrown out". I'm looking at a walnut-sized ball sitting in front of me right now.
Standard Crafter procedure it seems 😂
I love your dress!
Thank you, I thrifted it!
Very clever!
Thank you 🥰
Ohh that hank turned out lovely. I'm so jealous of your talent...and still wishing you would sell some of your hand made hanks. lol
If you keep mentioning it I might one day, but mostly I have projects in mind with them, or my impostor syndrome keeps telling me they're not good enough to be sold. Like ''people Will complain about the bits of VM!'' or something like that 😅
@@MijnWolden I understand. I hope you don't mind but I gave your channel a shout out on my community page and dropped your link. Your channel is awesome and I am sure it will grow and grow once more people know about it. I always look forward to new uploads from you. 🙂
Ooooooooooh 🥰🥰🥰🥰
It looks great! Thanks for sharing! I was carrying around this idea for a while and you might have just inspired me to turn it into my next spinning project. I'm just not a massive fan of my hand carders so I'm wondering if there's a way I could somehow do it on a drum carder 🤔
I think the drum carder will work as well, the amount needed to fill my drumcarder was more daunting to me than smaller chunks on handcarders. Please share your results! Thank you for watching and commenting, friend 😁
Now I'm not saying petrochemicals are good for the earth, but there are some shall we say "man made" or to be pc, "person made" hmmm! Yarns that come from that organic material, just like there is some "man made" oh what the heck! Yarns that is made from milk or casein to be exact. And some people can't wear animal fibres so those naughty fibres do have a place in the world of yarn, and they are much more beautiful than they use to be, so don't exclude them entirely. I enjoyed your video, thank you for sharing, and your floof did come out lovely! Cheers from Tasmania!
Indeed there are some manmade yarns that aren't all that detrimental... But these surely were not of that category! 100% plastic from the discount store 🙃
It's true not everybody can wear animal fibers, and it's great we've Found ways to accomodate for that as well! I'm very Lucky to be able to wear wool, and even luckier that I don't find it itchy at all, even the ones with guardhairs in them!
Thank you for watching and your contribution 😁
@@MijnWolden thank you again for sharing, I also liked your humour and cheerfulness, we can use a good dose of fun at the moment with all the chaos and sickness around. I'm glad I can wear wool also, although Mohair makes me itch a little, the colours that you used blended well together, with the yarn that you don't like at all you could decorate them and turn them into Christmas decorations, or turn them into dolls. Cheers!
Thank you 😁🥰
I personally love knitting with wool and natural fibres for all the reasons listed in the video, but also I would probably think long and hard about knitting for like, a baby or young child with natural wool, because lord knows how much washing and wear those items need when worn by a young human, and I barely have enough time to carefully launder my own jumpers let alone one that a baby has thrown up on. In that situation, I'm team "throw everything in the washing machine on the hottest cycle and see what survives" 😆
Well yes, that could be a concern if you have kids 🤔 I don't have any and don't plan on having any in the forseeable Future so I didn't think of it
haha ik doe dat ook af en toe, en soms gebruik ik het om mijn fibre te versterken voor sokken bijv. En ik heb ook wel eens bollen gele acryl gekocht wat ongeveer lont was maar ik was zo weg vd kleur maar wilde liever ook wol in mijn garen hebben dus heb het gekaard met verschillende fibers die ik nog had.
Leuk hé!?
I would love to hear where you buy yarn, when you are not spinning it yourself. Here in Latvia there aren't too many options either in local shops...
Don't think I have bought yarn in the last three years 🤔 local yarn stores are few and far between and they mostly only sell the big name brands of yarn. I also have way too much fleeces to spin to even think about buying yarn right now 😅
Wondering, would it be easier and take less time if you could un-ply and un-spin your yarn scraps on your spinning wheel, and then card the fibers together ?
Good question 🤔
Could this also be done on the drum?
I personally haven't tried that yet, but I don't see why it should not be possible
I'd never have the patience for something like this. 😆 What will you make from the yarn?
It did take quite a while indeed 😅 I'm not sure yet, but maybe I'll incorporate it into a woven piece... Thank you for watching 😁
@@MijnWolden I hope you will show it when it's done. ^^
Btw, I absolutely love your accent.
Haha love the appreciation for my Flenglish 😂
@@MijnWolden I can't get rid of my thick accent, and I can assure you, it's not as cute as yours. 🤣
@@mushroomandpoppy3623 you probably only think that because it's yours, I wouldn't say my Flenglish is cute at all 😅
Like you, I definitely feel uncomfortable with the use of certain fibres. They have their uses, but I prefer to avoid them. I’m not dissing all man-made fibres, not even dissing acrylic per se… The issue I have is the overuse of them and the impact they have on the environment. I also have a big issue with the lack of respect (“Oh, it’s a cheap fibre anyway!”) people have for it, which results in the item that gets made out of it all too easily thrown out.
I am also extremely conscious of the impact ‘natural’ fibres have on the environment, and on the often extremely poor quality of it - both in completely finished garments and in yarns. Nothing ‘gets’ to me more than to put hours in knitting or crocheting something and two or three (hand) washes later, it’s pilling like crazy. I have a ‘pullover shaver’ sitting next to my laundry and ironing supplies for just that purpose: shaving off the pilling to make garments look better and not have them end up in the recycling bin. But at a certain point, they’re threadbare and just… done.
I also have issues with the idea of microplastics seeping into our environment, which has slowly made me more and more choosy about what I buy, especially when it’s new. When shopping for commercial yarn, I try to steer away from superwash because let’s face it, the fibre’s basically been treated with plastic. The equation is a little different when buying thrifted clothing. I try to reflect on what is the better option: that item eventually ending as waste because it doesn’t get sold, or me using it until it almost falls apart completely? Which will leave the bigger carbon footprint? Is the item 100% polyester or acrylic, or is it a mix? What is its intended use? How long would it potentially last?
That being said, I’m never EVER going to criticise others for the fibres they use. The choices I make are MINE. When asked about it I explain my reasons. Other people have different reasons. Some might be practical. Some might simply be the sad fact it’s the only thing that person can afford. Some might be health reasons, like allergies.
I’m very lucky: I don’t mind not buying clothing for aeons. I have a very eclectic, rather timeless style. I tend to get years, some times decades, out of clothing. My core wardrobe consists of several rather expensive (thrifted!!!) basics that I combine with a vast collection of eclectic pieces I’ve made, thrifted, been gifted or bought over the years.
Now that I’ve taught myself how to spin, I have the luxury of being able to make my own high quality yarn, preferably sourced as locally as I can, prepped in ways I’m comfortable with, and this keeps things quite affordable. I can spend a little more on yarns I feel comfortable with to supplement my knitting and crochet needs for both my daughter and myself. It reduces our wardrobe’s fast fashion content. And if/when we find ourselves lusting for a more recent, commercially produced item, we check out our second hand sources. More often than not we find what we are looking for.
Am I a yarn snob? Perhaps. For myself and for what I make. Because it makes me feel less guilty, less uncomfortable.
As for my yarn stash: the local elementary and middle school my daughter used to go to is always desperate for odds and ends for their craft projects. Once or twice a year I’ll go through my stash and I donate what I don’t see myself using to them. I don’t just include yarn. I’ll make a box of assorted craft supplies. Bits of cardstock get punched into various shapes, either sorted by colour of by shape, and put in little boxes with labels on them (gotta preserve a teacher’s sanity). Slightly larger pieces get trimmed and stacked, sorted by colour. Odd ends of yarn and string or ribbon get tied into mini-skeins or small balls for easy identification and use. Pearls, beads and buttons get sorted and strung together or stashed into small (repurposed) boxes or jars. Bits of fabric get the weirdest and most unusable parts cut of, folded, and stacked more or less by kind and colour.
It’s a good way for me to de-clutter and to make others happy at the same time, in a sustainable way. Schools are almost always gappy with a crafts supplies care package. 😊