Is there any way of rescuing a wool jumper that's shrunk in the wash?

[dustyhousewithdustypeople]

It's a lovely Toast jumper that I found in a charity shop yesterday, I was so pleased with it! Otherwise I'll have to give it to a small child...

They go all sort of thick don't they?

Yes, it would be very nice and warm for the small child.

I don't think so - you have effectively felted it. Did it myself last week!

Could you use it for some sort of craft project? Make a cushion cover from it, use it as a jumper for a teddy?

some things, when they say hand wash only, really mean it

it's not fair that some of them don't & give a false sense of security :cries:

I'm afraid there isn't any way to rescue it. DP did this to a pure lambswool jumper my knitting obsessed mum made for dd1.

Felting project?

I bought my DH a beautiful lambswool sweater for one of our first Christmases together

Then I shrank it. Me. Personally. Nobody else (it still rankles!)

I very carefully handwashed (as per instructions) 2 toast jumpers costing 99 pounds each. After a few washes they shrunk badly. Too much money to not able for more than a few months without being spolit. The store told me it was my fault. I have two other jumpers from Toast I washed the same way and age and I didn't have a problem. Won't be buying anything from toast again.