Softening Up Some Yarn
The weird thing that happened once I started crocheting, I was able to inherit leftover yarn from both my grandmas. (I guess the fun thing about crochet is that it skips a generation or at least it does in my family!). The bad thing about this is that a lot of these skeins are old and really rough! So trying to crochet with them is a bit of a pain and as much as I would love to ditch them and buy better yarn of my own, I love the free yarn. There are a lot of colors that I would necessarily buy myself. And I'm still learning, so I don't feel like my projects need high priced yarn yet.
Luckily while browsing pinerest I stumbled upon a tip for how to soften yarn. I knew instantly this was the solution I was looking for.
The Project
Soften My Yarn Stash
Instructions from Heart Hook Home
Supplies Needed
Economy/ Scratchy Yarn
Washing Machine
Dryer
Basic Laundry Supplies
Mesh Bag or Nylon Stockings
Results
So the first step in softening yarn is to rough up the skeins. Some of the skeins I was going to soften I had already used, so I skipped the roughing up of those. The skeins I hadn't used yet, however, I gave a thorough roughing up!
I then gathered a whole bunch of skeins that needed to be softened and placed them into a mesh bag.
In hindsight I should have used my smaller mesh bag, but at the time, I didn't feel like finding it. So I just filled my large mesh bag.
Anyway I washed the bag of yarn with my towels.
And when I pulled it out I ended up with a huge mess!
After I detangled the yarn skeins, I learned that the biggest mess was caused by my partial used hot pink skein and my mostly used teal skein.
So I learned to either not try to soften my partial used skeins or that if I try it again to wash them in their own personal nylon sock!
Overall though my yarn seems to be softened, but not that much. So I guess I'll try rewashing my skeins with a smaller load of towels to see if that makes a difference or not!
