Un-Knitting Machine

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Imogen Hedges’ bicycle-powered Un-Knitting Machine unravels sweaters and then lets you wind up the yarn for reuse. [via The Mill]

5 thoughts on “Un-Knitting Machine”

ameyring says:

December 14th, 2012 at 6:16 pm

Perfect for unknitting those sweaters that didn’t come out right, especially the holiday ones with strange-looking Santas!
miroslava von schlochbaum says:

December 15th, 2012 at 10:29 am

Now connect the output of this machine to a knitting machine and… well you get the mad idea.
Grayfox says:

December 16th, 2012 at 4:59 am

Best way to use the sweaters you get for a gift.
Recycle it.
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December 25th, 2012 at 8:40 pm

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October 1st, 2015 at 11:51 am

[…] else out of it. I can unravel an ugly sweater using the power of my hands (or maybe my legs with The Un-Knitting Machine?) and knit or weave it into something much more beautiful, utilitarian, or even […]