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Edited by nannagirl at 2024-1-15 08:26
depending on the goal, you can also stretch it by hanging it up soaking wet, for example if you want to make something bigger or wider and you put it dripping wet on the clothing line, the water will weigh it down and stretch it, just watch where the weight of the water will go and arrange the areas to be blocked
also you can just stretch it out by hand when you take it out of the washing machine or wash it by hand and lay it down on a towel or blanket with a carpet underneath it and you can pin it in place, depending on the size with two people, I just bought a acrylic sweater which was a little tight on my husband, we immediately stretched it together when it came out of the wash and hang it down on the clothes line still wet, now its 1-2 sizes bigger, I also knitted a cape of acrylic yarn once and pinned it down on our living room carpet, worked fine
there is also the option of dryspinning it in the washer alone, first wash and then spin on a high circle, but this is very risky, I had some accidents with knitted things washed alone or with too few other items and spinned too high, looked like rags afterward or had terrible pilling, so this is just a idea if nothing else works
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