Washing Disasters

[Madie]

I don't believe it - I've had two in as many days ..

First, my blue hair scrunchie managed to fall in with my whites and yup - you guessed it - everything seems to have taken on a delicate blue hue. Does anyone know the best thing to restore my whites ??

Secondly, dh thought he'd do me a favour by putting on the washing. Unfortunately he put in my lambswool cardy in there and now its a size 8. Is there anyway I restore its shape again - or will I have to consign it to the charity donation bag ??

You could try washing it by hand and restoring it's shape - gggrr I hate it when someone does you a favour and it goes awol - you want to scream, but instead have to thank them for being so helpfull!

for the whites - there is a product called colour remover and it is designed to remove colours like that or a dye remover would also work.

Agree with eidsvold. I had to get some because Next did the trick for me. DS has the white top with a picture of a mini on it and red collar/sleeves and you guessed it the red runs into the white. Quite cross about this. Took the first one back - the second one not been quite as bad.

Bozza, it makes me cross too when they do that without making sure the colour is fast.

Having said that the big manufacturers seem to have got a lot better generally at using fast colours these days - I occasionally fish coloured socks or underpants out of a white wash and they haven't run at all, and I wash whites at 50 degrees, not 40 - mind you that makes it worse when they use a contrasting colour that then runs.

Sorry about your lambswool cardie though Madie - lorst and gorn forever I should think. Lambswool just mats and you can't get it back. The colour remover thing eidsvoid mentioned should work fine on your blue whites but if you have any bits of colour left in you should find that they will gradually fade over time.

Yes JanH - you can't exactly cool wash a white top worn by a two year old can you? It ran at 40 degrees.

Its a shame because its nice - not that I would have bought it myself.

My washing machine has 'chewed up' one of dd's vests - does that mean it's coming to the end of it's life ?

The vest, or the washing machine?