The warm sweater is almost everyone’s closet, some sweaters become bigger after washing, sweaters become bigger very affect the wearing effect, sweater washing process need to pay attention to a lot of, after washing drying and care should be noted.
How to do after the sweater washed and became bigger
1、High temperature method
After wetting the part of the sweater that became bigger, high temperature local heating. If the whole sweater is loose, you can all wet after steaming with a pot for about 20 minutes, lay flat to dry, the contraction effect is very good.
2、With the iron method
Find a large cardboard box to disassemble and cut the cardboard to a human size according to the reasonable size of the wool sweater. After the wool sweater has been washed and dehydrated, stuff the cardboard into the wool sweater so that it is propped up left and right while the length is shortened, then iron it with an iron and lay it flat to dry. If your sweater is pure wool, you can soak it in warm water at 30℃~50℃ and let it slowly regain its shape until it has almost recovered its shape before putting it in cold water to set. Finally, remember that when you dry it, you can’t wring it out, but lay it flat to dry. You fold up the sweater to dry it just fine. First of all, fold the sleeves to the body, and then fold it again, the whole clothes in a long strip, so that the clothes to hang on the beam, or drying rack on the OK.
3, the way to prevent sweater shrinkage
We use hot water to wash sweaters, the water temperature should not exceed more than twenty degrees, available laundry detergent to wash sweaters, in the wash can be added to the water vinegar or salt for the last soak, in order to be able to maintain the elasticity of the sweater with the luster, we can also use the life of the toothpaste for cleaning, because the toothpaste is very little irritation, and not easy to hurt clothes, will not affect the laundry process caused by fading.
4, sweater fleece down the restoration method
If your fluffy sweater wear a few times or put a long time, the hair naturally all down, then we can use the pressure cooker for boiling water, to boil water, we will sweater hair down to the place of that heat while coaxing baking with a brush on the fluff combing, slowly sweater on the line of fluff will evaporate with the heat and stand up, which into can be restored to its original shape.
Sweater maintenance methods
1、Storage
Most sweaters, especially cashmere sweaters, should be folded rather than hung on hangers. If you must hang the sweater up, you must use a hanger with shoulder pads or the shoulder corners of the sweater will have stretch marks. The problem with folding sweaters is that they take up more space.
2. Clean up
If you don’t want to waste time on hand washing clothes or dry cleaning clothes, then it’s best to buy cotton sweaters that are suitable for machine washing. If you don’t use a washing machine, then you should follow the washing instructions, first soak the clothes in the water with detergent and gently use your hands, and then lay the sweater on a towel and spread it out. To make the sweater dry faster, you can also twist down the towel with the sweater or change the position of the sweater.
3. Purchase
When buying a sweater, please check the sweater specification sheet carefully and combine it with specific measurements that can be tried on your own model to get the correct size. A thicker pullover in winter is both warm and will make you look good. Under this thick sweater you can wear a cotton t-shirt so that dander etc. will not stick with the sweater.
How to make a sweater smaller after washing it big
The best thing is to iron the sweater at high temperature, it will be stretchy.
1, if the cuffs or hem of the sweater has lost its stretch, in order to restore it to its original state, you can use hot water to iron it, the water temperature is best between 70-80 degrees. If the water is too hot, it will shrink too small. If the cuffs or hem of the sweater lost stretch, you can soak the part in 40-50 degrees of hot water, 1-2 hours out to dry, its stretch can be restored.
2, this method applies to the overall restoration of clothing, the clothes in the steamer (2 minutes after the rice cooker on the gas, half a minute after the pressure cooker on the gas, without adding the valve ) can be. Note the time!
3, will be cut out cardboard put into the wool sweater, flat on the table finishing put, wool sweater will be because of the elasticity and propped up a little.
4, at this time will be a slightly wet towel on top of the clothing, with steam iron in the wool sweater about two centimeters to iron, take care not to directly iron, damage to the wool fibers.
5, if the whole sweater is loose and long, you can wet the wool sweater, wrapped in a bath towel, pot steam for about 20 minutes, lay flat to dry, the contraction effect is also very good.
Sweater cleaning precautions
The first step is to avoid washing the sweater in the washing machine, even in the most gentle way. You must hand wash; water temperature should not be too high, to about 35 degrees Celsius is better, hands lightly pressed, do not rub, full wring and other vigorous techniques. Water temperature is best at about 35 degrees, washing should be gently squeezed by hand, do not use your hands to rub, knead, wring. Never use the washing machine washing.
Step 2: Use a neutral laundry detergent in the ratio of 100:3-5, do not use alkaline, enzyme-added laundry detergent and other washing.
Step 3: rinse gradually add some cold water, the water temperature will gradually drop to room temperature about the same, and then rinse the detergent to no foam.
The fourth step: after washing, the first hand pressure, the moisture pressed out, and then wrapped in a dry cloth pressure, you can also use the centrifugal force dehydrator. Note that the sweater should be wrapped in a cloth before being put into the dehydrator; it should not be dehydrated for too long, only for 2 minutes at most.