An officer’s body cam footage of handcuffing an emu on the lam is the video we all need right now.
Meantime, I have a question. Macy’s was selling a cashmere turtleneck for $43 plus a $10 off coupon, in a color I liked. $33. I sprang for it. I figured it wouldn’t be the best quality but cashmere at the price of cotton, hey.
It arrived quite perfumed. I don’t know if it was worn and returned or just happened to be next to the warehouse’s moth repellent efforts, but it looked fine. I debated returning it but there were none left to exchange it for so I thought, nah, I can wash that out.
Several spots refused to get wet. On both front and back but not the sleeves. We’re talking blotches an inch and two inches high or more.
I held it under. I soaked it in unscented suds for hours. I defied the ‘don’t agitate the water’ rule of hand washing woolens and squished soapy water through those spots again and again but they stayed looking exactly how they had: bone dry. Huh. If it was mill oils repelling the water the soap would be breaking that down by now. If it was super wash treated, ie the yarns coated in the thinnest film of plastic so it can be machine washed and dried, they would have used it as a selling point (without admitting to the plastic part.)
What gives? I’m a fiber artist, I should certainly know. A fraudulently synthetic-cashmere blend that spun out into clumps of just synthetic?
I tried working water into it during the rinses, too. (Tepid water not cold thankyouverymuch.)
I didn’t spin it out–if it turned out blotchy I wanted to be able to say it had not touched the washer nor dryer.
Hours later, while laid flat to dry, those gaps slowly slowly closed up and the thing became a solid color again, darker of course because it’s wet but at least now it all looked wet.
Huh.
Well, the mill oils with their dried hair mousse effect are definitely washed out now because the sweater has softened up beautifully.
I like it. Hey Mikey.