The way to wash a jumper without losing it
Most jumpers are not lost in the wash. They are lost in the ten minutes after it.
Cool water in a basin. One measure, no more. Ten minutes, and nothing else: no rubbing, no swirling, no lifting it out to look at it. Wool felts when it is moved about in warm water, and that is the whole of the problem.
Then the part that matters. You do not wring it and you do not hang it. Press the water out against the side of the basin, lay the jumper flat on a towel, roll the towel with the jumper inside it, and press once more with the flat of your hand. What happens after that is the difference between a jumper that keeps its shape and one that does not, and it takes about two minutes. Almost everyone does the opposite, because
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