Through felting, you can morph an old sweater into a scarf. "The felting process shrinks the knitting and changes the structure from knit stitch to a dense piece of fabric you can cut into," explains Leigh Radford, author of Alterknits Felt (SIC Craft), who gave the directions below. Choose a machine-knit 100% wool sweater that's non-machine washable (check the label). Use a washing machine (top loaders are best) to felt the sweater. Choose the lowest water level pos- 2sible, add 1 tablespoon of laundry detergent and set to agitate with hot water. You may have to run it . through the agitation cycle twice. Do it until the visible stitches become a solid piece of fabric, then let it run through the rest of the wash cycle.
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