If your sweater or jacket after washing has decreased in size, then find out how to fix this annoying misunderstanding at home.
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It is very annoying when, after the first washing, almost a new thing decreased in size. This often happens among housewives who do not look at the labels, warning that clothes can not be washed at elevated temperatures, and it is intended only for delicate washing. And yet, even from such an unpleasant situation you can find a way out. It turns out that some woolen things can be stretched. How? Look further.
Is it possible to stretch a sowing woolen thing after washing?
Unfortunately, not all things can be stretched after they decreased in size. Clothing from one clean wool is poorly lendered in this process. And if a sweater or snood is connected from mixed threads (wool, synthetics), then not everything is lost yet.
So, when erasing of natural threads, it is better to adhere to the following conditions:
- Do not soak clothes and hats in hot water. Typically, the label indicates - at what water temperature you can wash it.
- Do not use powders with the content of powerful, washing chemical components, use special fluids on the package, which are written: for wool.
- Do not wash things in the usual mode of the machine, use a delicate mode.
IMPORTANT: Drying knitted items is better in an unfolded form, because they can not only sit down, but also lose their original shape.
How to stretch a sowing woolen sweater, sitting a woolen sweater after washing: methods, tips
Stretch the sweater, sweatshirt, if they decreased in size, you can use the following ways:
- Take a sweater, put it in a basin with cool water. You can also use the solution: water 10 liters, peroxide 46 ml. Leave a sowing wardrobe item for an hour. Then take out from the container, wait ten minutes while the liquid runs away. Prepare the place where the sweater will dry out. To do this, bed a towel, put the thing on top, only lay out slightly stretching. When the towel is fed with moisture, replace it with another. Do so until it dries.
- The next option can also help to cope with the problem. In this case, take a small jacket, put it smoothly on the ironing board and stroke, through gauze. By the way, gauze must be periodically, as it dries, moistened in water. After that, you will receive your jacket of the same size, of course, if before that you have not been very mocking the product.
- The sweatshirt will also be able to increase in size if it simply wear it for a while. True, this method is good if the thing did not sit very much. After all, sometimes it happens that clothing is reduced in size catastrophically, and after that you can only wear it on a child.
- A very good method of stretching your favorite thing using a solution with cold water and ammonia. The solution is prepared in the following proportions: 24 ml of ammonia and five liters of water.
IMPORTANT: For stretching knitted things, it is desirable only cold water so as not to aggravate the situation.
How to stretch a sowing woolen beret, a hung woolen hat after washing: methods, advice
No matter how sorry, there are times when your favorite woolen hat takes the wrong size that was before. Yes, and in the season, when you can’t do without it. Of course, this spoils the mood and the first thing that comes to mind is to buy a new headdress. For a slightly unimportant, and even a short hat does not sit beautifully on his head. However, do not rush to immediately despair. Try it at first - stretch it. For this:
- Lower the headdress into a bowl of cold water. Wet it, let it lie down a little like that, somewhere: 24 minutes.
- Take your cap and carefully, squeeze it with your hands. You can also soak too much water with a towel.
- Find an item that looks like a head. To do this, it is enough to apply a regular 2-3 cylinder-liter. Put on a headdress on a glass jar. Let it dry there.
- When the hat or takes, it will take the previous size, and you will again be comfortable in this headdress.
Perhaps, after the information provided, you will manage to betray your favorite, knitted item or the headdress again the previous type, size. If not, then the next time, erasing your things, pay attention to the tags on the products. Use only those care methods that are allowed. Do not try to steam a woolen hat, sweater, etc. in a car machine, etc. Do not put it - squeeze if the thing is not intended for washing in normal conditions.