Need some quick advice please - regarding washing a shirt

[Mind_your_head]

I've got a knitted sleeveless Kate Hill tank that I need to wear with my suit tomorrow, but I forgot to bring it to the dry cleaner :-(

Will I ruin it if I hand wash it?

It's 68% Rayon and 32% Nylon. It says "Dry Clean" on the tag (not dry clean only though .... so I'm thinking that's hopeful :shrug:)

Thanks in advance.

[femmocrat]

1. You could wash it in Woolite and cold water.

Just don't spin it out all the way and let it dry over a towel. Don't put it in the dryer.

Press with a cool iron. I wash rayon all the time.

They put "dry clean" on clothes now because "younger" people don't know how to wash them properly! LOL

(On edit: I just looked at a rayon shirt and the tag says: wash in cold water, gentle cycle, with like colors.)

[Mind_your_head]

2. Thank you very much

I just happen to have some Woolite. Glad that I don't have to run out for it tonight.

Thanks again for the advice. :-)

[LeftyMom]

3. In a pinch, shampoo works well for handwashing.

Regular shampoo, not head and shoulders or that stinky medicated kind or anything like that, unless you want to smell like grandpa's medicine chest. ;)

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Just don't use Woolite on wool

It strips the natural oils off...Knitter's tip :)

[femmocrat]

5. I never knew that! What do you use instead?

Thanks for telling us that!

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Either special wool wash, from a knitting shop, like Eucalan:

In a pinch, a mild shampoo. :)

[AlCzervik]

8. i'm almost positive my sister uses that, she's a knitter.

and she makes some really nice jewelry, she's crafty, no, she's an Arteest! I'm going to askl her to bring some knitting needles with her when visits so she can make me a sweater.

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Eucalan's great stuff...I need to get back to knitting, but

that means an expensive trip home to Webs, in Noho. I miss living 15 min. from America's biggest yarn store! 22,000 sq ft! x(

I haven't found a good LYS (local yarn store) out here that I really like. Windsor Button in the city's ok though...Hey, I work around the corner from there! :think:

I think I'm going in early this week! :bounce:

[AlCzervik]

10. we have a yarn store here, also a bead store and i didn't know about either until my sister

called me and told me, how funny is that, she's 3,000 miles away but damnit she knows where to get her fix when she comes to visit.

[bicentennial_baby]

11. We're good at sniffing them out...hehe

I just prefer the one in my hometown, even though it's tiny, or Webs. I can live with Windsor Button for now though. :)

[AlCzervik]

12. i think you knitters have a secret language, it's like yarn and needles society.

i bet you have a cool handshake too.

[bicentennial_baby]

14. Pretty much...We're subversive like that...

I'm reading a sock pattern at the moment, and I'm all distressed at the number of SS's and the danger of YOs! Plus, I can't remember what size my bamboo DPNs are, I think they're a 3 or 4, but I can't remember if it's a set of 5 or 4, which matters. And, I can't remember if my sock yarn (which is a beautiful Cornflower Blue Alpaca) is sport weight or fingering weight! Ack! :o

Give me Noro Kureyon or give me death! :patriot:

[AlCzervik]

15. i like cake.

:D

[snailly]

6. Throw it in the dryer on delicate with some Bounce for 15 minutes

Trust me.

[Mind_your_head]

13. I've used that trick before to freshen clothes up quickly

But this one really needed to be washed. Last time I wore it, we went to lunch at a Chinese Place - you just can't get rid of that smell with a Bounce sheet - LOL

Btw, I hand washed the shirt already with Woolite. It looks like it turned out fine.

Thanks again everyone who answered! I really appreciate it! :hi:

[1]

16. this will not help you out tonight. but for the future? check this out...

spills, drips, bumping into someone?

all of this can happen on the road. what do you do? you wash your items in the bathroom sink or the tub of your hotel room. and you hope they will be dry before the morning so you can wear them. that's what i did.

carry one of these with you on that road trip. it can save your life.


i don't know these people. i have no financial stake in these people. i'm just saying this does what they say it does.

this video is super cheesy, but watch the part about rolling a sweater up to remove liquid. the product delivers as promised. and your garment will be dry in the morning, that is the important part. but bring an iron. your garment will need help.

https://www.buyshamwow.com/spark/index.php?videoID=Shamwow_xvid-1&bufferTime=5

good luck...

[Mind_your_head]

17. Interesting.....

I USED TO (haven't need to use this method in many years now - lol) wash and then place my sweaters, shirts, stockings, whatever on a clean towel. Roll the item up in the towel and walk on the towel to squeeze the water out of the garment. Unroll and then hang or 'blow-dry' to finish. It really got most of the water out and cut HOURS off of the drying time!

:rofl: makes me laugh now to think how often I used to do this "back-in-the-day".

[Gormy Cuss]

20. Hey, it worked.

It's especially effective if you're in a hotel and don't have to wash the towels.
:D

[Carnea]

18. I throw mine in the hamper. I find them cleaned and ironed within three days.

:hide:

[Mind_your_head]

19. You're very very bad.....

:spank:

[Monk06]

21. And with a delightful 'natural' scent.