I purchased a hand knit sweater at a thrift store because I loved the colors of the yarn. I didn't really take into consideration that the yarn was incredibly itchy and scratchy and almost completely unwearable. Until I discovered the blog post below, I thought my only option was to make a felted bed for my cats.
I completely unraveled the sweater and then used a yarn winder to create long skeins of yarn. I took one of the skeins just to see if this method for softening the yarn would work. I was pleasantly discovered that it did soften it quite a bit. The yarn was soft enough to make a hat that wouldn't drive me insane with an itchy forehead.
How to soften scratchy yarn
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