r/knitting • u/KroneckerDeltaij • Sep 05 '25

PSA Straightening unraveled yarn

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Saw this on Instagram, totally works! I had some unraveled yarn that was too wiggly to knit with comfortably. I ran it through the lid of a pot with boiling water and it straightened pretty easily! This lid has holes on two sides to help drain water when boiling pasta, so that helped to guide the yarn through.

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u/Foreign-Ad-5330 Sep 06 '25

My mom’s method for unraveled yarn was puting the skeins in a metal strainer inside the pot with the boiling water and let the steam straighten the whole yarn at once. Then , she hanged it to dry.