WASHING JUMPERS

Northern Advocate, 27 June 1935, Page 4

WASHING JUMPERS

HOW TO PRESERVE THE SHAPE

Some folk recommend dry-cleaning for wollen jumpers, but that is only because it is so easy to wash them wrongly. They should be well washed in good warm soapsuds and no rubbing is inquired. Unless they are well rinsed, leaving no soap, the wool “felts up,” as it is called, and becomes thick and unpleasant to touch.

If you dry the jumper by hanging it up, you are just asking it .to drop out of shape. It should be spread out on a towel and placed in the right shape. If the jumper is knitted from wool that doesn’t stretch easily it is possible to make a long roll from a towel; pass this in at one sleeve, right through and out the other and hang it to the line by each end of the towel. A loosely-knitted jumper should not be hung on a hanger, even when dry. Woollen jumpers should be folded aru kept in a drawer with a few moth balls.

Many a jumper has been hastened, to its end by the wearer pulling it on while she is still wearing a wrist watch or brooch. Catching up the stitches is always fatal. You cannot always avoid doing it sometimes on a hidden nail, but you can always think to take off a wrist watch. When aiming at making neat seams, many knitters slip the first stitch, but not a great many know that it is an excellent idea to slip the stitch as a purl when the row is plain, and as a plain stitch with a purl row.