As always, we empahsize quality: after all, garbage in, garbage out. Sorry acrylic lovers, but there you have it. And in these days of ecco everything, please know that acrylic is .... wait for it ... plastic. In essence. Really, do you want that on your body? My hands sweat just knitting it! And oddly, some of these acrylic knitters will ask for bamboo needles, because they're natural. Hmmm, a little lack of continuity here.
Having said that, i know we have die-hard acrylic knitters who are convinced that anyone they knit for (and by the way, it's usually the daughter-in-law - funny, that!) will screw up hand-knit woollens.
So here's Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's thoughts on woollens:
"When i give hand-knit presents, i tell people to wash their new woolies the way they would wash a baby: no hot water, no swishing, no scrubbing or wringing out. Use gentle shampoo (it's hair, after all), keep the thing supported on the way out of the water, never put it in the dryer, and don't hang it up. This seems to put it in terms everyone can understand, and nobody's wrecked a knit (or a baby) yet."
I love Stephanie!!!!
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