unraveled sweater

I spent the better part of this afternoon unraveling a sweater I bought at a thrift store for a few dollars.  It was a slightly felted wool sweater or else it wouldn't have taken so long.  I normally wouldn't have bothered with a felted sweater but its such a nice soft white wool.  There are several good youtube videos showing how to do this if anyone is interested.  The trickiest part usually is finding the starting points on the seams, for most of the sweaters I've taken apart the best place to start is the on the sleeve's cuff.  This sweater resulted in about 475 grams of worsted weight yarn

the original sweater

cutting the threads at the edge of a seam, once started the seam  can be pulled apart or unzipped

"unzipping" the seam

the deconstructed sweater pieces

unraveling the pieces & winding the yarn onto a niddy noddy

the newly unraveled yarn :)