- DO NOT AGITATE.
- DO NOT ABRUPTLY CHANGE WATER TEMPERATURE.
Other than that, woolens are much hardier than most people think, although I believe most knitters have figured this out already.
My woolen washing routine is a great exercise program. It requires five trips up and down the basement stairs to the washer. This is how I do it.
For this system to work, you need a washing machine that will agitate but not spin with the lid up.
If you have any concerns about the outcome, try your washing technique out with a swatch.
- Trip 1.
- Set washer for small load (optional), warm wash, and warm rinse.
- Start wash cycle with lid up.
- Add 1 capful of baby shampoo.
- Do NOT add the items you're washing.
- Go back upstairs, letting washer go through wash cycle with lid up and no woolens. It creates bubbles from the shampoo. It stops before it spins out.
- Set washer for small load (optional), warm wash, and warm rinse.
- Trip 2.
- Washer is now ready to spin out.
- Add woolens to warm water.
- Carefully swish around to throughy wet, but DO NOT AGITATE.
- Go back upstairs leaving woolens to soak for 10-15 minutes.
- Washer is now ready to spin out.
- Trip 3.
- Woolens have been soaking.
- Give a final, gentle swish around in the water.
- Shut washer lid.
- Stand by washer while it drains and spins with woolens inside.
- Before washer starts to fill for rinse cycle, remove woolens and set them aside.
- Go back upstairs leaving lid up.
- Washer fills with rinse water and agitates with no woolens in the water. It stops before it spins out because the lid is up.
- Woolens have been soaking.
- Trip 4.
- Washer is ready to spin out.
- Add woolens to water and gently swish around. DO NOT AGITATE.
- Put lid down and go back upstairs.
- Washer will drain and spin with woolens inside.
- Washer is ready to spin out.
- Trip 5.
- Grab woolens out of washer.
- Lay them out to dry on a flat surface, patting them into the desired shape. This is my version of blocking.
- Grab woolens out of washer.
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