{"id":121057,"date":"2005-07-16T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebudgetfashionista.com\/wordpress\/?p=752"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:25:56","slug":"how-to-unshrink-a-wool-sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/archive\/how-to-unshrink-a-wool-sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"How to unshrink a wool sweater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Accidentally shrink your favorite wool sweater? Well, this tip gives you instructions on how to unshrink that sweater in using your own kitchen sink<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unshrink a wool sweater in 6 steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can stretch your sweater by soaking the garment in a tub and\/or sink with a mixture of gentle hair conditioner (think Baby Shampoo) and lukewarm water for approximately 15 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drain the water out of the tub\/sink. Do not wring the sweater, but press the sweater against the side of the basin to drain the excess water.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remove the garment and lay it flat on a really thick towel that is very absorbent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use another towel to blot the excess water away.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gently pull the sweater into the desired shape.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Let the sweater air dry flat as hanging the sweater will put it out of shape.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Fix A Shrunken Wool Sweater\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45V09HaDbP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Interesting fact:<\/em> A similar procedure, called <strong>blocking<\/strong>, is used by high-end knit designers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/archive\/budget-st-johns-knits\/\" class=\"rank-math-link\">St. John Knits<\/a> to \u201cstretch\u201d garments to a larger size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accidentally shrink your favorite wool sweater? Well, this tip gives you instructions on how to unshrink that sweater in using your own kitchen sink Unshrink a wool sweater in 6 steps Interesting fact: A similar procedure, called blocking, is used by high-end knit designers like St. John Knits to \u201cstretch\u201d garments to a larger size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-121057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-trends","tag-clothing","tag-sweaters"],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":103557,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/pexels-photo-45982-1-300x203.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}