Here'a one of my newer re-knitting projects, well it's sort of last year, but I just didn't post about it yet. But maybe first a short recap about what re-knitting is. You take yarn that has already been used for something and then un-ravel it. You can i.e. buy a sweater at the salvation army or you can take some of your own old projects that are not "fresh" anymore and then use the yarn for a new project. Sometimes I just get old sweaters from people because they think they are ugly and then I knit something new from it.
So I had this quite nice twin-set made from a beautiful linen yarn. I probably made it 20-25 years ago, wore it a lot. But I haven't been wearing it for the last 15-20 years. It has just been lying around in a drawer, couldn't throw it away, cause the yarn was too nice.
well so I unravelled it, even though it hurt a bit, it was a very difficult, intricate ajour pattern, and I turned it into a sort of plaid wrap-around extra long cardigan, knitted in a brioche-stitch with a turn to make it a bit tighter.
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photography by Inge Noordijk |
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New cardigan, close-up of "natural" water-fall collar |
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new cardigan, showing how the linen-yarn and horizontal knitting makes it fall real heavy |
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new cardigan, laid out flat, you really see how the plaid-pattern is worked out. |
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old twin-set, sorry for bad picture quality |
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blouse of the old twin-set |
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close-up of the complicated ajour-pattern of the old blouse |
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