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CASHMERE disaster!! Please help

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julieq
julieq Posts: 2,603 Forumite
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Due to being rather dopey, have put 100% cashmere scarf in the wash and just found it :eek:

Is there any way of saving it? 40C wash, non bio, spin 1200. It now feels like carpet underlay and is all bent out of shape. Please help, in floods of tears as is favorite one and stupidly spent £25 on it. :cry:

Also had 100% merino wool and angora in there but hoping these will stretch out ok.

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  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    my money is on dead.. sorry
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
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  • nuttywoman
    nuttywoman Posts: 2,203 Forumite
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    Try soaking it in fabric conditioner, i read somewhere that it sometimes helps when you`ve shrunk woollens in the wash.Think you have to soak, then gently stretch back into shape.Hope it helps.
  • Valli
    Valli Posts: 25,455 Forumite
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    Hate to tell you this but you have 'felted' it ... it's how felt is made, that.
    It's irreversible, Sorry.
    Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY
    "I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
    :heart:Janice 1964-2016:heart:

    Thank you Honey Bear
  • steerpike
    steerpike Posts: 126 Forumite
    I am sorry to say that there is nothing you can do to restore it to its former glory, the fibres have gone through an irreversible change.
  • rachbc
    rachbc Posts: 4,461 Forumite
    yes its gone but you can make something with the felt.....
    People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • julieq
    julieq Posts: 2,603 Forumite
    have calmed down some now and have decided that a felt scarf is much in fashion.

    The merino wool didn't shrink and the angora stretched out ever so slowly just about fits.

    Thanks everyone
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