Do you love winter? Yes most of people do, equally they care for their woolens but most of people don’t know the right way. Many people make mistakes while washing knitwear their winter clothes so today I decided to help those guys. Here are some important tips and warnings, read and remember them for better results.

• You can use your washing machine to wash your woolens but ensure it has a very gentle spin cycle. But avoid to use your machine with cashmere or fragile sweaters and do remember to place your woolens into a laundry garment bag.

• Most of good quality sweaters are made from natural fibers, it’s better to wear a scarf around your neck to give them buffer between your neck grime and sweater. It looks cool and keeps your neck warm during winter.

• Avoid to use deodorant on your sweaters; it can leave stains on your clothes.

• Avoid washing knitwear specially cashmere kind of woolens at your home. Ask any specialist to do that, you can find many shops near you for cashmere wash. Check your phone book directory or search over internet.

• Carefully choose storage box for woolens, cardboard boxes would be better choice, at the same time it will invite mice and moths. So if you are using them keep an eye on the box and check them regularly. Plastic could be better choice in this regard but it can cause fiber breakdown.

Warnings

• If you are using plastic bag for storage keep them away from sunlight. It can cause change in color or create stain. Especially care for light colored sweaters and white one.

• Avoid vacuum plastic bags for storing knitwear; the sweater can go out of shape.

• If the sweater is in good shape and no wrinkle is there then avoid ironing it. If it’s required then use a dampened towel over it to iron the woolen.

• Jewelry with pieces can catch and fragile your sweater, better to avoid wearing such jewelry. And do remember to remove first jewelry then sweater. These small tips will help you to keep your woolens new for longer time.