Why we save yarn from past projects
By JC | March 25, 2013
I’m still making progress on the Fountain Lace piece, but yesterday I took some time out to repair my tattered gloves:
pretty shabby... and the left glove didn’t look much better
The process was the same for each of the damaged fingers. Begin with a small needle, catching each stitch of a round below the damaged area and below any thin spots:
a small needle makes the job much easier
Rip back to those caught stitches. The first couple rounds always disintegrated into short little segments, held together mostly by the felting qualities of Mountain Colors River Twist. The last few rounds unraveled to clean, sturdy stitches:
ready to repair
Re-knit using fresh yarn, and needles of a size appropriate for the yarn:
getting better!
Repeat for each damaged finger.
In the end, the gloves were much improved. They had already survived three winters; now I figure they’re good for at least a couple more:
no more tatters!
And I only needed to reknit eight of the fingers – the pinkies weren’t all that damaged. Good thing, too: I’m not sure I would’ve had enough yarn to reknit them as well. Here’s all the fresh yarn I have left:
mere yards
And that’s after unraveling my original gauge swatch.
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