http://www.knitfitninja.com/blog/how-to-wash-a-sweater-wrong-shrink-stretch-and-pill-your-hand-knit/ Making Your Next Damn Sweater Fit Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:00:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.knitfitninja.com/blog/how-to-wash-a-sweater-wrong-shrink-stretch-and-pill-your-hand-knit/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Karen Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:49:25 +0000 http://www.knitfitninja.com/blog/?p=164#comment-573 Oh, my! Thanks for sharing your horror story with me. What a shocker when suddenly Dad's sweater could fit a teddy bear better than him. It's good you can laugh instead of cry! Have you been wary of knits ever since? Oh, my! Thanks for sharing your horror story with me. What a shocker when suddenly Dad’s sweater could fit a teddy bear better than him. It’s good you can laugh instead of cry! Have you been wary of knits ever since?

]]> http://www.knitfitninja.com/blog/how-to-wash-a-sweater-wrong-shrink-stretch-and-pill-your-hand-knit/comment-page-1/#comment-570 lupe Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:21:23 +0000 http://www.knitfitninja.com/blog/?p=164#comment-570 oh i can tell you a story or two but this is the worst ever! my daughter got her first job ever at a clothing store, around christmas time she had enough money to buy her dad a sweater from the store itself. She bought a very expénsive sweater, spent all her savings and proudly present it to her dad on Christmas morning. all well up to here. but a month later i washed it and you can guess the rest:( it was piled, shrunk soooo small a child of three would have been able to wear it. We are still laughing about it though. Hahahahaha. learnt a very valuable lesson on washing knits. sincerely L.p oh i can tell you a story or two but this is the worst ever!
my daughter got her first job ever at a clothing store, around christmas time she had enough money to buy her dad a sweater from the store itself. She bought a very expénsive sweater, spent all her savings and proudly present it to her dad on Christmas morning. all well up to here. but a month later i washed it and you can guess the rest:( it was piled, shrunk soooo small a child of three would have been able to wear it. We are still laughing about it though. Hahahahaha.
learnt a very valuable lesson on washing knits.
sincerely
L.p

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