Raveling - the work of a designer

Well, I guess we all ravel sometimes - tink, frog, whatever you like to call it.  I started another Lobster hat in a different colorway.  Maybe this looks more like the rocky Maine coast, we'll see.  But, oops!  I didn't realize until after I tried to increase from the ribbing stitch count to the hat body stitch count...  I cast on 20 too many stitches orignally.  Rrrrip-it, rrrrip-it!  Start over, work a couple of inches and put it down for the night.
Next morning - started thinking of a different way to arrange the design so that there are 8 lobsters rather than 7....  Rrrrip-it, rrrrip-it!  Starting again, alternating lobsters with their heads up and lobsters with their tails up...
As Carol Woolcock would say, "twice as much fun with the same yarn!"  (Or as my dear old grandmother used to say - "Do and undo, keeps fools busy!")

Raveling. . .

New idea: since I am eager to sell my knits at The Hodge Podgery, where they encourage recycled and re-purposed items, I decided to shop at a second-hand store for some sweaters to Ravel in order to reuse the yarn.

Shopped at the Community Aid store on Carlisle Pike in Camp Hill.

Bought a 100% Lambswool Anderson-Little sweater with 10 stitches per inch. It's a light tan, saddle-shoulder, raglan sleeve sweater. The seams are chain-sewn, so very easy to undo (Rrrip-it!). The sweater is new enough not to be too felted except in the armpits, so it's raveling quite nicely. There are the occasional breaks, so I just tie a knot and continue to wind the ball. A small amount in the armpits is unsalvageable because of felting.

The V-Neck was steeked, so rather than tie a knot for every row, I just cut down to the the bottom of the V and didn't try to salvage the yarn above that.

It's just the right color for the Capitol Dome hat I designed last year if the yarn isn't too fine.

Cool thought - The care label from the sweater could be sewn into a hat knit with the same yarn. But I probably ought not put the Anderson-Little label into my hat; that might offend their brand.