Help I just washed several sweaters in cold water and now they look like they belong to a small child. Does anyone know how to get them back to their original size?
Haven't tried this but I saved it for when I need it.
This is the most amazing thing and it actually works to fix a sweater that you have accidentally shrunk with hot water in the washing machine. Fill a pasta pot 3/4 of the way full of water and add 16 oz. or one medium size bottle of white vinegar. Bring these two to a boil; they smell terrible. Wet the sweater in any temperature water and then drop the sweater into the pot. Turn the heat down and simmer for 20 minutes. Dump all the liquid and the sweater into the sink and let the water drain out. Now cover the sweater with cold water and you will be amazed to see that it has returned to its regular size.
you might want to try soaking sweater in room temp to warm water,,, add some hair conditioner to the water and very carefully start to shape it the way you want...lay it on a terry cloth towel and put another towel over it and roll to get water out of sweater...lay flat to dry.
There may be no way to fix them, but a friend of mine uses shrunken woolen sweaters to make tea cozies. Just boil until shrunken very tightly, then from the inside draw your pattern and stitch with a surging stitch or tight zigzag stitch. Then when you cut just outside the stitching it will not unravel.
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