Jofrog is Knitfrog!

An almost daily blog of my knitting adventures and conquests!

November 12 2008

Washing Sweaters

I have a pile of sweaters from last winter that I wanted to wash... gross, I know. The problem is:

  1. I need my kitchen sink to be clean before I start washing them.
  2. I need the time to wash them and then bring them into the basement to our neighbor's top-loader washer to spin them dry and then bring them back upstairs again.
  3. I need the space to dry them.

When I have numbers 1 and 2 covered, I'm still left with number 3 as my limiting factor. The result is that I can only wash one or two sweaters at a time. Yesterday I washed my two favorites. They aren't the most beautiful, but they are the ones I wear the most often.

Here is my most comfortable sweater drying. Does it look huge? ...because it is! It was a shop sample at the yarn store I used to work at. When it would get cold there I would throw this sweater on. When the sample ran its course and was put up for sale, I snatched it! I always feel like I'm lying when I wear it... it's obviously hand knit, I'm a knitter, people think I knit it. I correct them if they ask, but I also know the details about it if they ask! (Two colorways of Manos, alternated every two rows, pattern is in an early Design Source book).

This is my other favorite sweater:

I "designed" this one, and posted about it here in March 2006. I love this sweater. It's thick, it's wooly, I bought the yarn right from the farm, it's definitely in the range of my favorite colors. It gets a lot of use and was definitely dirty.

Now both are clean, and I need to find the time to wash some others! How do you clean your sweaters? One at a time? A bunch at once and you drape them all over the house for a day or two? Any suggestions on how to make this a quicker process?

posted by jofrog16 at November 12, 2008 07:40 | link | comments (4)