How to Care for Knitted Garments

Posted on August 7, 2009 at 6:11 pm, by Knitting Stitches
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Once you’ve spent time and money knitting an item to donate to charity, you should attach instructions for care and maintenance to the garment so that the recipient will know how to clean it in the future.

Most care and maintenance instructions are found on the yarn label. Symbols are used for ease of recognition.

Washing – machine washable at stated temperatures, using a delicate cycle, or with the most delicate of cycles. You should wash any yarn or garment by hand that is not specifically labeled machine washable.

Bleaching – using chlorine bleach or do not bleach.

Drying – tumble dry with high or low heat; hang dry after removing excess water or dry flat.

Ironing – hot iron, warm iron, and cool iron or do not iron.

Dry-Cleaning – using any solvent, except trichloroethylene, use fluorocarbon or petroleum solvent only, or do not dry-clean. To be safe, you should ask your dry cleaner for the best solutions to use in cleaning the knitted item.

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