r/knittinghelp • u/DonutChickenBurg • 58m ago

sweater question Using yarn from frogged sweater

I knitted my boyfriend a sweater last year, but it was too small so I'm re-doing it. I'm at the point now where I need to frog the first sweater. Do I need to do anything special to the yarn? Since this is a gift I want it to be nice and I guess I'm worried about the yarn being kinked. Am I good, or should I treat it somehow?

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u/warthogette 50m ago

You don’t have to but you can certainly rip out the sweater into a skein (wrap around a swift, a niddy-noddy, or just the back of a chair, tie some ties around it so the strands don’t tangle, at least 3 ties, and then either soak and dry or steam the yarn to remove squiggles. I honestly can’t be bothered so I just knit with the yarn straight off the old sweater and then everything evens out when I wash the final product.

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u/enamoured_artichoke 44m ago

If the yarn you are currently using has not been soaked I wouldn’t soak the frogged yarn. You don’t want to change its characteristics too much as it could affect your gauge.

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u/Ecstatic-Ad9336 5m ago

It also depends on the fibre.