Both of us have recently ripped out a previously knit sweater and reused the yarn. Why would be repurpose the yarn instead of giving away the sweater? We discuss this and a few other issues when reusing yarns.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.
0:11.4	This is episode number 278, which we are recording on Wednesday, September 7th, 2022.
0:19.0	I'm Gail.
0:19.9	And I'm Charlene.
0:20.7	And we are at the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor today, escaping
0:23.8	the heat. We're parked in the shade, getting a nice breeze, which is so welcome today. But that means
0:30.8	Yes, desperately needed. But that means there will be some ambient noise. You already heard the
0:35.9	seagulls. You may have heard a barking dog.
0:38.3	We'll do our best to edit that out.
0:39.8	But given the heat wave we're experiencing, this is where we have to be right now.
0:44.4	And given the heat wave that we've been experiencing, I have not been wearing any knitware.
0:50.7	No, not a single piece.
0:52.6	Some of my projects are even too warm to put in my lap to knit on lately.
0:57.7	I can understand that. Yeah, it's been super overly toasty warm here in Santa Cruz. But today it's
1:03.4	beautiful down here by the Ot Harbor. By the Harbour. It's gorgeous. All right, so we know we're
1:08.8	not wearing anything. So what are you stalking?
1:13.5	I have been stalking more than I have been wearing my knitwear. So the first sweater that I am
1:21.5	stalking is called Hentu, and it is by May UKP. And it looks like an updated version of a shaker sweater.
1:32.3	Traditional shaker sweaters are ribbed, that fisherman's rib that's usually nice and thick and squishy and raglan seams on the shoulders and they have a traditional to a positive ease fit
1:51.3	this one hento is a slightly shorter modified contiguous sleeve shaping so the sleeve is increased as it comes off the shoulder
2:04.8	instead of on both sides of the seam, as a raglan would be. And the sleeves are also
2:13.0	slightly gathered in the cuff. So instead of a sleeve that tapers all the way down, what it looks
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