Post #2068830
2026-05-05 22:18 UTC
Replies (10)
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@Bronwyn@sfba.social 2026-05-05 23:06
Maybe I can live with the bust and sleeves as is (I would like it more fitted but I don’t want to restart it) and just tighten it up under the arms? Ugh but it looks baggy. Or I can restart but the first 1/3 of it was just really tedious Or I can try shrinking it. Or I can give up on knitting forever 😂
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@RedRobyn@mastodon.nz 2026-05-05 22:30
@Bronwyn@sfba.social Not a super advanced knitter. However the only way I've done it involves felting. Which changes the texture a lit. Also depends entirely on the kind of wool - anything super wash or synthetic won't felt.
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@mossyfoot@pdx.social 2026-05-05 22:41
@Bronwyn@sfba.social I'm not a knitter, but I was able to shrink a pair of wool gloves by soaking them in hot tap water for 5-10 minutes while rubbing and compressing the parts I wanted to shrink, then letting them dry flat. It took a few times but they fit perfectly now.
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@lavalaempchen@chaos.social 2026-05-05 22:42
@Bronwyn@sfba.social is it superwash? If yes, it is unshrinkable. Otherwise it depends on the amount of nylon. 20 percent should be fine, everything above that makes problems and more than 50% nylon and it basically wont work. You can try hot water and then pinning it in a small way before trying agitating as well, hoping that the temperature will change enough to make felting not needed as that will disturb the way your stitches look
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@lisettedeboer@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 22:53
@Bronwyn@sfba.social Did you block it before trying it on? And is it non-superwash? Shrinking/felting is not a very controlled process, so I wouldn't risk it. Perhaps try tightening it up a little with a surface crochet chain on the back side.
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@jcarlson@mapstodon.space 2026-05-06 00:14
@Bronwyn@sfba.social Purposely, multiple times. Successfully, also multiple, but it's a smaller number! I think my best success was getting the garment hot/wet and hang-agitating it in the places I wanted shrunk, rather than putting it in the laundry and hoping.
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@MossyQuartz@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-06 00:46
@Bronwyn@sfba.social I'm in the process of knitting something and I wasn't sure what the yarn would do if it ended up in the wash someday. I cut a length of yarn and added it to the laundry for wash and dry. My yarn will be alright, but I suggest you wash and machine-dry an arm-length of your yarn and then make your guess after measuring the result. Some yarn doesn't shrink and some yarn shrinks very much.
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@anne_twain@theblower.au 2026-05-06 00:53
@Bronwyn@sfba.social First thing to consider - is it 100% wool?
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@wobin@aus.social 2026-05-06 04:38
@Bronwyn@sfba.social I can only report a failure that ended up hard felting the beanie. It was 100% wool
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@travisfw@fosstodon.org 2026-05-06 14:49
@Bronwyn@sfba.social i shrink everything but i crochet like a caveman