I am about to wash feather pillows in the washing machine

[Enid]

cos Kim and Aggie said you can

am sure our pillows are manky and yuck

would love to replace the lot to be honest

go on
buy somewnew
ones

i am a dunloopillow freak

here

we have a latex mattress thingy

is fab

dh will ONLY have down pillows doncha know

I do feather pillows in the machine. No probs

Surely you can't was feather pillows at all?

They'll go all yukky, and dry flat and lumpy?

I buy foam pillows so I can wash them (ever since ds spewed on mine when he was a baby)

ooh that CElestial one looks gorge

i find feahter oensa r great for baout 20 mins
then shite

They will come out clumped but my down coat used to do that - when it was dry it went in the dryer with a tennis ball and that unclumped the feathers, should work with pillows too.

Enid you'll be fine if you have a dryer and do the tennis ball trick as suggested by Jackie.

We take the feather ones (an duvets etc) to the laundrette about once a year (billed as a Treat and/or Exciting Day Out) because we don't have a dryer.

(MrsBadger - are you psychic? I considered posting the tennis ball thing, even typed out the post, but decided someone else would surely do it - but You Knew )
Or did you just misread JanH's name.

I misread JanH's name - saw the J and the sensible advice and thought it must be you!

Wash all mine and dry no prob. Smell lovely after they have been in the dryer (but a bit barnyardy when they come out of the w machine)

oh I have no tennis balls!

what else can I use

Got any kids' Doodles? Wash them with the pillows and put them in the dryer with them? (not really sure if this will work - can you tumble dry Doodles or will you end up with melted rubber all over your pillows?)

(US sites seem to recommend a clean tennis shoe or sneaker, but not on a hot setting - I'd get the pillows nearly dry by themsleves then turn down heat and add trainer)

it puffed up alarmingly in the washer

like Woody Allens instant pudding in Sleeper

I put it in the dryer when I walked to school

came back to find a terrible smell and the dryer half fallen off the shelf

have binned pillow and fully intend to buy new ones instead of the washing lark

oh dear...

Ah - just realised I should have suggested putting a towel in the washer with it to batter it into submission - oh dear.

You wanted a new one anyway really, didn't you!

why did it puff up sooooooo much? it really is bizarre

I have put it int hte sink to show dh

it has gone HUGE

Is it the size of a new feather pillow?
They're always huge when you buy them (I remember cramming one into a trekking rucksack to get it home from JL many years ago) and get flatter and flatter with use.
Maybe it just got the plumping of its life...

dh pissed himself

it is in the sink looking like a turkey

I think it's just air - try sitting on it.

(It shouldn't have gone into the dryer wet btw )