Snow Washing Shawls and Hats

Today is the snow wash day for all the shawls and cowls. It continues to stay very cold here so that is key to the success of this process.

This is a thing I did with my sweaters and blankets when it was actively snowing. For this round I had to kind of sprinkle and kick snow over the knits. I let these lay out for 4-5 ours and then dried in my basement. I did spritz them with some soak scented spray for extra goodness.

I am finding that the finished objects did relax (a little) like they do with a bloc. And they smelled better even before the spray. For more benefits and better explanation, I like this article by County Living. Basically is it’s like ancient dry cleaning.

Happy Winter!

Cleaning and Packing

Coming off the Zen of a full week off from my day job, I decided to toss all my woolens and get them ready for summer storage. Which resulted in this hug messy pile…

With a little help from Jellybean we sorted all these into baby knits, hats, shawls, blankets and “other”. All items were inspected for any wear/tear or critter damage. If they passed muster than we put them into vacuum bags and sealed shut.

All these happy woolens are now safely tucked into my cedar chest or cedar scented drawers. This was not the most fun job but I feel really accomplished after it is done, lol.

Happy Knitting!!