Recycled Purple

650g of recycled wool, 4ply I think, nearly dry and ready to be wound and knitted. G helped me unravel this jumper which once belonged to my Dad. He would never wear it, probably due to the colour. I briefly wore it in the late '80s a couple of times as a very long jumper but all in all it didn't get much wear so the wool is still in fine condition. Mum originally made it on the knitting machine that we jointly bought and rarely used. I have no idea what I'm going to knit with it yet but I do like the colour.
In this close up you can see there is a faint pinkish fleck to the yarn, no wonder Dad wouldn't wear it.
We started to unravel another purplish garment too. This time it's a huge baggy cardigan with a huge baggy sleeves and a big rolled collar knitted in fisherman's rib (from the early '90s). The wool I recall was extortionately expensive but is a lovely variegated royal blue thru puply grey thru black. I remember the care I took when knitting this garment for D to try and match the colour repeats so it was nice and continuous. He never wore this much because it was basically too hot for our climate, it's knitted in double double knitting - that's right - two strands of double knitting. It's one big warm heavy cardi with a helluva lot of yarn in it. Of course being two strands makes it trickier to unravel and skein but with G helping using Mum's skein winder and me on the niddy noddy at the same time we started off OK. I need to sit down and unpick some more seams before we can continue.