how to wash a lambswool jumper

fairycake

HELP! hUBBY has been doing the washing as i was ill and has managed to shrink 2 lambswool jumpers. Has anyone got any idea how i can reverse this?

skintchick

I don't think you can. Sorry.

jenniferpa

I'm afraid that once the damage is done, the damage is done. The wool has ended up being felted, and the only thing you can do is, perhaps, cut them up and use them for something else. I suppose if they were hand knitted it might be possible to unravel them, but I doubt it. Are they his or yours? Yours, I bet.

If the shrinkage is minor, you might be able to do something: wet the jumper and stretch it when wet, then dry flat.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Jennifer

squeaky

If the shrinkage isn't too bad you can sometimes recover it by soaking the woollen in a solution of warm water laced with hair conditioner. otherwise, it is, as has been said, unrecoverable.

wishingonastar_3

i have rescued a wool jumper that was only slighlty shrunked, by soaking as squeaky says, in warm water and conditioner, then putting it on to stretch it. was still a bit snug, but def helped,

woas.

Mr_Proctalgia

I too think they are irrecoverable now, the annoying thing is that the bodies tend to shrink and the arms get longer!! they might be usable if you could give them to Smeagol???