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[abilouise]

Today I did something I've wanted to do for a while and went to Goodwill and found some sweaters worth cannibalizing for their yarn. Or at least one definitely is: undyed Icelandic wool. I think I'll make googieblog some underwear with it... The other, it turned out after I started looking at directions for doing this, is the holy grail of sweaters to frog (cannibalize): one knit in the round, entirely one piece with no seams to boringly unpick. Hoopla! So I now have untold yards of yarn in gray maroon and white from this fairly ugly intarsia sweater that was huge with a tiny neck, but unfortunately, since it was obviously handknit (no commercial place is gonna knit without seams), I don't know whether it's wool or acrylic or what. If it's acrylic, it's not really acrylicky, but I wish I knew, since one project I'd really like to do involves felting. Does anyone who reads this have a good trick for telling acrylic from wool? I suppose I could sacrifice some to some hot hot water and see what happened...

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[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Take a tiny piece of the yarn and try to light it on fire. If it melts, it's acrylic. If it smolders, it's wool.

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Oh hey - actually, I looked at that sweater the other day! I didn't buy it because I have an enormous pile of frogging sweaters, and like you said, I wasn't sure if it was wool. I'm glad it went to a good home!

[abilouise.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I thought you might have an answer...