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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 01:51 PM
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Did you know that a wool sweater can't go into a clothes drier?
Apparantly the marshmallow woman didn't, so when she said I'm going to wash your sweater I didn't think anything of it.
It was only when I went through the spare bedroom where the clothes drier is and found it running that the words "Oh shit" escaped my lips.
Sure enough, when I opened the door, there was my sweater. Only now, it will fit my six year old nephew. I don't want to give this one away does anyone know of a way of restoring it?
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 01:53 PM
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1. soak it in cold water and hair conditioner
it might help. Then slowly stretch it into place.
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 01:54 PM
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2. Pray tell
Who is the marshmallow woman?
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:03 PM
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5. Marshmallow is my loving wife
she has shared much of her life with me, and is the only woman I care to be with. Hopefully, after I soak this sweater it'll come back.
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neebob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 01:55 PM
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3. Yes, I knew this
having once removed a tiny wool sweater from the dryer. I thought about getting it wet again and stretching it back out, but it was so tightly shrunk I didn't think it would work.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 01:59 PM
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4. Usually, nothing will restore it to its original shape.
I'd suggest giving it to your nephew. Though, maybe you could take it to a dry cleaner and they could restore it.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:04 PM
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6. hair conditioner....may work...it restored my winter woolen thong
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A HERETIC I AM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:46 PM
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15. Hmmmmmmmmm....why do i find the idea of a....
"Winter Woolen Thong" so intriguing?

The entire concept just has so many ........well....."Avenues" or "Slots for thought" so to speak

not to metion the "Scratchiness Factor"

as well as the "Over Usage of Quotes and Caps"
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:05 PM
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7. My significant other who worked in a costume shop says:
Cold water - wet it

Stretch it and pin it to a board (this is called "blocking it") so it will dry to the size you want it. The same wool is there. It just tightened up and needs to be stretched back out.

She says this may work.

Let us know
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:24 PM
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8. Note on this method:
Use a LOT of pins. Otherwise the sweater has these interesting pointy things on the sleeves. ;)
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A HERETIC I AM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:50 PM
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16. Hmmmmmmmm... Why do i find the idea of .....
"Pointy things on sleeves" so interesting?

SHUT UP! WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT UP!

why?
BECAUSE YOU ARE A MORON
no i am not
YES YOU ARE! THESE PEOPLE ARENT INTERESTED IN YOUR INSIPID SILLINESS
are you sure?
YES!
damn
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:30 PM
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12. I'm going to try the soaking
being cheap and not wanting to spend money on it, but, I think it's probablly going to the cleaners. Oddly enough, the arms look okay, it's the body that shrank.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 03:23 PM
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24. seventhson speaks the truth (nt)
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 04:12 PM
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26. According to my grandma's Depression cookbook/household hints book...
Boil it in water with a cup of white vinegar, then stretch it as it dries.

During the Depression they probably had to figure stuff like this out a lot!

Tucker
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populistmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:29 PM
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9. My husband
He has shrank more clothes of mine than you could think possible in the past 13 years. If it's wool or silk or rayon, he's put it in the dryer. The thing is that I do about 90% of the laundry, but he still manages to "forget" everytime something like that is in there if I don't give specific instructions. And when I give the instructions, I'm being a controlling because he "already knows". :grr:
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 03:10 PM
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21. So what did you do with the offended clothing?
Is there first aid or is was it all a lost cause?
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populistmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 10:01 PM
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29. I used to give it to my daughter
Now, since she's only a couple sizes smaller and almost as tall, I donate tem or get rid of them. Until I saw some of these, I never knew there was a cure.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:29 PM
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10. Actually it's the washer that's the problem with wool
I put my wool sweaters in the dryer all the time. But I'm usually using those Dryel sheets that you can use to clean 'dry clean' only stuff like wool sweaters.
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:29 PM
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11. Yup, unfortunately.
My roommate accidentally laundered my favorite sweater - twice. The first time, it shrank, but not so much that it couldn't be soaked and stretched.

The second time it was in for so long that it became "crunchy." The wool was very brittle sounding when stretched and wouldn't go back to its original shape.

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Deb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:37 PM
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13. What worked for me this year
Take the dry sweater and spray a whole bottle of Ez-Care Wrinkle Reducer on it. The stuff comes in a clear spray bottle in the fabric softener section of the store.

Take care not to stretch it too much, it really relaxes the fibers. Lay it flat on a towel to dry.

After it is dry, wash it again and use wrinkle reducer Downy fabric softener in the rinse. Shape and dry the sweater like nothing ever happened.

My sweater is an Irish cable knit, not sure how it will work on a sweater that started very close knit. Good luck!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:43 PM
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14. Maybe you need to get a new sweater and
this time wash it yourself.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 03:08 PM
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20. Well I had in the past
I was on DU and didn't think anything about her washing it,I mean she thought she was doing something good for me, and I couldn't say no, I just thought she knew not to throw it in the drier.
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A HERETIC I AM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:53 PM
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17. one thing to remember about wet wool...
you never saw a sheep shrink in the rain, did you?

Of course, you never saw a sheep lay on the ground and have it's fellow sheep stretch it out and use lots of pins on it, either.

Just a thought

from the nether regions
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 03:04 PM
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19. Yeah that's what I wondered about
I've never seen a shrunken sheep.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 03:17 PM
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22. You never saw a sheep get put in the dryer either
It's not the wetting. It's the high heat.
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A HERETIC I AM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 03:21 PM
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23. What about a desert dwelling sheep after a rainstorm?
hmmmmmmmmm?


didnt think of that, didja?
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Logansquare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 05:50 PM
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28. that's w;hy they all moved to Scotland
no shrinking
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 10:03 PM
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30. No...but that would be Cool!
:)
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 02:53 PM
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18. A Tardis?
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gator_in_Ontario Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 03:46 PM
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25. Now at least
your hamster has a sweater! Gotta look at the bright side, yanno!
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 04:28 PM
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27. You can magically change an adult sweater into a kids sweater
It can go into the dyer but when it comes out it's a quarter of the size that it was when it went in.
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