Well you all remember the sweater that was borrowed without permission. That it came back to me smelling like Fabreze and cigarettes. With stretch marks on the seams.
The story continues with me washing it in a hot water bath of Dawn with a hot water rinse then hanging to dry. I treated the sweater like it was raw fiber. No agitation or wringing. Just squeezing the water out. Then letting it drip dry. Well the cigarette smell was gone. Thank goodness. Now it just smelled like Dawn dish soap.
The next wash was a cold water wash in Soak Wash with some mild agitation. Followed by cold water rinses. I did 2 rinses just to make sure. Followed by hanging in the garage to dry.
Well today I needed a light sweater. So I went to the garage to check the smell of the wool sweater. It smell perfectly fine and free of order. So I put it on. It had shrunk 2 sizes, which was fine because I have lost so much weight since I bought it for Teri’s wedding weekend. The seams sealed themselves back to no visible damage. I was very lucky that the sweater did not felt. I do believe that this was do to carefully handling it during the hot water wash phase. The sleeves hit tight at my wrist like when I first bought the sweater. When John came home he said the sweater looked great. It now fit perfectly.
So I guess good things can come back from a complete disaster. Although I still say the sweater was stolen and not borrowed. Borrowed implies that they had asked for my permission to borrow my sweater. It would not have been given since it was my only everyday and dressy sweater. I don’t find it necessary to keep a lot of sweaters on hand because I don’t use them much.
So now I have two everyday/ dressy sweaters. I really hope that this does not make me a clothes horse.
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