unravel + reknit a sweater with me 🍓🌛 reduce textile waste + no pattern + upcycle inspiration!:-)
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- Опубліковано 3 лис 2020
- join me in showing this old forgotten wool-blend machine knitted sweater some TLC by upcycling it into a new sweater! This isn’t a tutorial as much as a walk-through of a particular project: I show the process of undoing the seams, unravelling the yarn, and knitting the different parts. If you want to knit something less costly than buying yarn from new, and you enjoy experimental and unpredictable creative processes, this might be for you! And as always with slow fashion, it’s a great way to renew your wardrobe, and reduce your textile waste - an otherwise large climate struggle. Here are some resources about textile waste:
www.sciencedirect.com/science... - “[…] average global annual consumption of textiles has doubled from 7 to 13 kg per person and reached to the threshold of 100 million tonnes of textiles consumption. More than two thirds of the textile goes to landfill at the end of their use and just around 15% is recycled.”
www.supplychaindive.com/news/... - “The utilization of clothing - the average number of times a piece of clothing is worn before being discarded - has decreased 36% in the last 15 years”
www.intechopen.com/books/wast... - “In 2015, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from textile production were responsible for 1.2 billion tons of CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas (GHG). This figure exceeds the emissions that result from all international flights and maritime shipping combined […]”
“Of this recycled 13%, a minuscule part is used to produce new clothing-less than 1%. The rest is recycled into other, lower-value items such as insulation material, wiping cloths or mattress stuffing”
These are from a quick search, there are books, documentaries, and articles etc. about this to seek out if you want to know more! Or let me know if I should comprise some numbers on this - I probably will, anyway.
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hey that was such a great video! i'm not a very experienced knitter/crocheter (?) yet but i would love to try upcycling a sweater like that and turning it into something else, maybe once i graduate to making sweaters or even some simpler project. i think the light blue moher thread broke up the monotony of the beige thread - both the colour and the texture - so nicely, i really liked it! also my heart melted when your guinea pig climbed up on your shoulder and peeked out from underneath your scarf in one of the knitting clips... so precious :')
I come back to this video a lot, it always makes me want to start a new project. Have unraveled and knitted new sweaters a few times now because of this video, I love it!
You should be proud and happy. You made a great new sweater. I like the idea of combining mohair with the original yarn. Super. I wish I had thought of unraveling a wool sweater I had that I didn't like the look.
OMG I can't believe how talented you are!!
Dude! Your ability to color match when switching to the darker mohair is insane! You cant tell the difference at all! I love how you used the sewing thread to tweak the color! You just blew my mind!
I'm late to the party, but beautiful result! Great idea to add the mohair which gives it a more feminine and sophisticated look. Off to the thrift store lol
I'm going to do the same just crochet instead of knitting
Wow I love how yours turned out so satisfying as well
Hi, congratulations on explaining your idea very well! I live in sub tropical city of Brisbane Australia and I love it. I’m older than your grandmother, but I need to learn knitting in English as I have not done any knitting in over 35 years! I have 2 jumpers to undo, so now I’ll know how to do it! Your jumper looks fantastic!
That stitchmarker is awesome
Wow the "the after" looks better on you.💖💖 Can I mention how talented you are!! So patient too.
It's so amazing how you transform the jumpers. I wouldn't have a clue ☺️
If I wouldn't have known these skills when I was a kid I would have been so happy That's OK never too late to learn
Those clothes shavers are great gadgets
im learning how to knit and you definitely are one of the reasons why i started, love your videos
13:40 i just so happened to be wearing a lavender banana scarf too while watching this video!😂also obsessed with how you reused that sweater! OMG!!😮
Wow, such a good idea and I love the outcome! 🤩
Bravo! It looks gorgeous! 💯❤️
You are an amazing artist! Your skill and talent are an inspiration. The sweater is so beautiful!
I loved this video + the result!! Really inspires me to unravel old sweaters and upcycle them :)
Such a beautiful reknit! Now I'm inspired to work my mum's old ones!
Hi, Ida!
I was inspired by knitting after your videos ,it's very soothing.
this was such an inspiring video! It makes me excited to work on personal projects again but for now ill keep slowly knitting my bag for uni
😳 Totally amazing! Now you've got me wanting to rip up everything in my closet! 🤣🤣
True straight factsssssss 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😍
This is such a great idea!! I loved every sec of the vid 😍
That was amazing. Go you!
Such an improvement 😊
What a great project! Looks so good on you!
turned out great!
Very inspiring! Well done!❤️
talented!
thanks, enjoyed your video, you make it look simple and not stressful, great talent. Southampton, UK(totally sane/fun)
beautiful !!!!!!
its soooo cute! I would love to learn to knit like that one day!
just found your channel and i absolutely love watching your videos while i knit! 💕
great job ida! I really enjoyed watching :)
Also, you have the shape to pull off sweaters, im too boxy but learning to knit. You did great work
That was pretty freaking cool. And nice to watch. Great job
I love this!! ❤️
YOU DID THAT....BEAUTIFUL!
pls make more of these videos ahh i love watching them while i crochet
This is amazing!! Didn’t even kno it was possible ha but I’m totally going to do it now
This is severely cool! I need to start doing that with mine
i love you and love your art ，so inspiration ~
Nice work!!! I'm interested in tutorials, try to learn knitting as well. Totally inspired. Thnx
Wow that was fun! I am inspired to try this with some sweater I have that I love but the shapes are dated.
Good save with the white thread! ♥️
well done! and i'm thoroughly enjoying your music choice for this video! :)
Impressive!
I think you're very smart A genius An inspiration
So, you don’t go through the washing to clean and straighten the yarn? The winding on the swifter into skeins, to be wound again into cakes? You just ignore all that tedium,m unravel it, wind it and knit it? You are amazing! I so vastly prefer your method🥰
I honestly find that it isn’t necessary!! Depending on the yarn type it can buckle a bit when reknit, which I find to be a charming added texture. I don’t block my sweaters either 🤭 & I haven’t felt the earth shaking beneath me yet! Imo all of that is more nice to than need to, and with aaall that time+effort? Not so nice to ;-)
You wonderful human being, that's amazing work. Thank you for making a video of your project! Can I ask if there's a special way or technique to weave in the ends like you did, or do you just do it as you see fit?
love finding other knitters my age!! How long did this take you? I'm just finishing up my very first took sweater, it took me about a month and a half!
Such a wonderful video! I wonder if maybe you would consider making a tutorial of how you knit them or how do you come up with patterns.
Thank you! I might do something slightly more technical and specific, but since I never use a new yarn, it will be hard to find the same type of yarn, and therefore also adjusting the needle size and amount of stitches to the substitute yarn for any viewer would be difficult. And also, my process is very intuitive and improvised! I draw out an idea of what the sweater might look like, and write down what I do, but it’s not planned out. It’s something I’ve done a lot and because of experience have gotten better at! But I can definitely talk about general guidelines etc. For this way of knitting in a future video 💌
what ab awesome video! im all for reducing textile waste! i’m so sad though because i have a super cute chunky knit sweater that is unraveling right now and i would love to fix it the way it is supposed to look but i’m not a knitter :(
Same, I was thinking of finding someone on Etsy maybe, a local-ish knitter taking custom projects if you ship them your yarn... they must exist somewhere 🤣
if this is still a problem I'd ask at your local yarn shop if you have one!
if you don’t know what to do with yarn or fabric scraps here’s a tip, i use mine to stuff my crochet plushies or pillows
This is awesome. You are very creative. Is the swearer with the geometric panel your own design?
Thank you so much! It’s not a design by me, I didn’t even knit it - I found it in a thrift store! It’s one of my all-time favourite sweaters :-)
hi the crochet bag on the left..do you have the video when you made it?
❤️🥺
Wow you are amazing! So inspiring! How long did this take you to make?
Thank you! Behind the scenes knowledge: I actually started this way back in March and have been knitting only very little at a time in short periods until the last part, so I can’t really know for sure! I would say I could have knitted it in maybe three consecutive days if I was concentrated but still did other things and took longer breaks etc. :-)
@@Aeronautisk Still very impressive!!
10/10
Wonderful work!
I have 2 questions I was was hoping you could answer:
1. What was the appliance you used to remove the lint? (some Philips thing?)
2. When you separated the sleeves, did you immediately decrease/increase the sleeve stitches, or did you continue with the same number you had till the cuffs? I love the big sleeves you went with, was wondering how you shaped them!
Thanks in advance!
Hi! :-)
I think it’s called a lint remover, or fuzz remover. It’s very handy!! As for the sleeves, I just continued with the same amount of stitches with no increase or decrease until the cuff, where I tapered it a bit by uniformly decreasing 🌷💌 thank you for watching & commenting!
@@Aeronautisk Splendid! Thank you for sharing!
What is that little machine that de-pills the sweater?
sorry to be a bummer, but i just wanted to encourage everyone to only do this with sweaters that are damaged like this one! high quality sweaters should be left alone, sweater that are just too big for you should be left alone💖 super inspiring project, i just needed to get that off my chest lol.
Great video!😁...music list 🥺 please
I am trying to unravel my home knit jumper but it is very slow going. Every time I get to the end of unravelling a row the yarn gets stuck & I have to pull all my unravelled wool through a stitch to keep on unravelling. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? Every video I watch the wool never gets stuck on each end if the garment & it is a continuous process.
Did you knit it yourself? It could be something with the way it was knit, I have tried unravelling something that kept snagging, too, I gave up actually. Since I am not familiar with the knitting technique that caused it, it’s hard to undo. Have you undone all the seams?
@@Aeronautisk Thank for your quick reply!. Yes I knit it myself in plain stocking stitch. I undid all the seams fine, but It snags at each end. I have to pull the yarn I have unravelled through a few stitches before it continues to unravel.. It is a wool mix with yak but it is unravelling fine until I get to the ends. The trouble is I can't pull much wool through without getting tangles, as if I roll in a ball I can't get the ball through the stitches at the end!. I feel I may have to give up as well as there will be too many joinings in the wool with the short lengths I can unravel!!
@@gill8779 often the fibers tangle together and create almost a knot. If it’s not a dark yarn you can sometimes see the little loop of fibers binding together strands of yarn that aren’t tangled otherwise. If you cut the little loop of fibers connecting the yarn maybe? It’s hard to troubleshoot a knitting problem when I can’t see or feel it myself.
Hii..does anyone know what tool was used to shave down the yarn?
I think it’s called a fabric shaver or a de-pilling machine :-)
@@Aeronautisk thanks for the help :-)
please share the song names
i like them so much!
Полиамидное волокно🤭🤔😳
? I'm not sure what you mean. Yeah, it's a 20% polyester yarn, which makes it durable. The rest is wool :-)
Oh my god you look like me
Well now I’m curious what you look like !! 👀🤠