What is the best way to wash my hand-knitted garments?
A. To maintain the look of your woollen garments, it is best that they are hand washed gently in hand-warm water using either Lux Flakes or Dreft Hand-washing Powder. You need to then rinse well and gently squeeze out excess water. Do not wring out the water. If you use water that is too hot you can risk the wool felting’. With some of the most modern washing machines, there are sometimes very good hand wash cycles that may be suitable. In this case, you could always use a tension swatch and put that through the machine to test it out.
