handwashing clothes!!

**purpleprincess**

Hullo all you knowledgeable types!!! I have got a few clothes that need handwashing and needless to say, because they need handwashing I've just disregarded them and they are still in the basket looking longingly at me to be washed and worn again!!! I've got the hang of the handwashing bit, I think!! but the bit I *really* struggle with is how to get the excess water out I don't want to be wringing them out as this would probably ruin them, soooooooooooo *how do I do it* and if I knew then I will make my handwash clothes very happy!!! Thanks in advance!!!

newlywed

Squeeze em a little bit and then... either hang them outside to drip all over the grass (especially if very fine delicate fabric) or .... chuck em one at a time in the washingmachine and set it on a short spin cycle at a low speed. Or else stop the machine part way through the spin.

That's what I do anyway!

Rikki

I spin my handwash clothes in the washing machine. I put jumpers inside a pillow case to stop it stretching. You can get special net laundry bags now.

Edit: Tie the top of the pillow case.

**purpleprincess**

Ah, forgot to add, I don't have a garden so don't have a line to hang them on and I don't have a washing machine!!!

seraphina

Spread out a towel somplace flat, place your jumper/whatever on the towel, and roll the towel up like a Swiss roll. You can wring the towel a bit more violently than you can wring the jumper by itself, and the towel soaks up the moisture that's been released.

It gets rid of enough of the water to stop them dripping so they can be hung up as normal.

But I also have a handwash program on my WM that I use:o

Edited - I just saw that you don't have anywhere outside to hang thing up - we don't either. I do have a hot press (airing cupboard) and I also hang things up over doors - the metal hook of a clothes hanger over the doorframe, IYSWIM.

newlywed

oooohhhhh!

Ok squeeze it a bit... get a large bath towel. Lay the newly washed item on that. Then roll up the towel and the item in it. Shouldn't crease too much and the towel should absorb most of the water

Edit : beaten to it by a few seconds !

**purpleprincess**

:idea: ah!!! What a good idea!! What do you do with the towels once you've done that though?

newlywed

Wring them tightly and hang to dry (over airer/bath whatever)

Tis only clean water after all

seraphina

Great minds and all that;) I too just chuck the towels over a peg/back of the chair/in the hot press to dry - as an added bonus they smell of lovely handwash detergent.

sloppychops

I always give clothes that i have handwashed a quick spin in washing machine.

**purpleprincess**

sloppychops wrote:

I always give clothes that i have handwashed a quick spin in washing machine.

I don't have a washing machine