How do you wash?

[Stitchinpick]

When I washed a baby blanket to send, it came out looking pretty fuzzy. How do you wash yours? I have not had a problem with this before. Bernat softee baby yarn is new, so it may be the yarn. I have done it in Bernat baby soft previouslyl. Softee baby is kind of fluffier. Or it could be that I am too rough with it. I washed it in my machine with less soap than usual and for a short-short wash. Then I put it in the dryer on delicate.

[crazycrochet]

I wash and dry everything I make. Cold wash and rinse, on delicate or hand wash cycle and dry on medium with a couple of dryer sheet. I use cold water for everyhing, the only thing that isn't washed in cold water in our house is our towels.

[mellybelly]

My mom had always just washed her afghans, then 'blocked' them by throwing them in the dyer for only a couple minutes, then laying it out on towels to try. I am WAY too lazy for that. I wash mine in cold on the delicate cycle with fabric softener, then pitch it in the dryer on low heat. So far, so good....I've never tried that yarn though, so I don't know much about it.

[Lady_of_Roses]

I haven't made anything from Bernat Softee Baby, so I don't know how well it launders. I hope that it typically launders well as well.. anything for a baby is going to need washed a _lot_ and nobody is likely going to have time to handwash everything for a baby.

 

Hopefully some members here who have used Bernat Softee Baby can give some feedback on how well theirs holds up and how they washed it.

[Feederofthepack]

Thanks for asking this. I'm making one right now using the same yarn.

[adagio]

I put whatever I'm washing in a zippered pillow case. The one I prefer is for a 'body pillow', so it is nice and long. Wash on gentle/knit cycle, cold water. Usually wash with Woolite, just a dab. I include some towels, to keep the load balanced.

I'll put the item, still in pillow case, in the dryer, gentle cycle, low heat. I may or may not use a softener sheet. For Project Linus, I don't. Most everything else, I will. I'll send it through one cycle in the dryer. When that is done, it may still be a bit damp. If it is really delicate, I'll spread it out on my bed to dry. If it is sturdier, I may drape it over my shower curtain rod.

Everything has come out of this first wash just fine.

[Stitchinpick]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I tried to be gentle to it. I know that white yarn is sometimes different than the other colors, isn't it...so that may have been the problem. I will try the pillowcase idea..