What’s Cookin?
March 11th, 2005 at 7:47 am (spinning)
Given that I’ve got a large amount of unwashed (translation: kinda stinky) fleece now; I am working on getting it clean. After consulting with my friends who are much more knowledgeable about fleece washing than I am, I decided to go this route, at least to start:
Huge pots. These each hold 21 quarts of water. The largest pan I had before this was probably in the 8 quart range. Works great for spaghetti - but not fleece!
Fill with hot water, set on stove til almost boiling (but not quite), turn down heat some, and soak fleece for about 20 mins. Don’t forget to add dish soap with the first washing or two. Two pots because it’s good to transfer the hot fleece to more hot water, rather than letting the fleece cool off and then waiting for the water to heat up again in the same pot. Thanks to Rebecca for walking me through the process, so I didn’t mess it up :)
One of my problems when washing fleece is where to let it dry? I’ve got
cats, dogs and kids; so there aren’t very many places for me to take
over that aren’t already occupied. I’ve solved this problem by finding
these stackable sweater dryers and putting them in my overly large
master bedroom closet. (The top layer has 1/2 pound of fleece, the bottom layer slightly less. This is the culmination of two nights of cookin’ fleece)
Since my yarn stash is also in this closet, I’m motivating the fleece to become yarn by placing them right next to each other.
tim said,
March 14th, 2005 at 2:24 pm
MmMMMM… Yummy! Fleece, it’s what for dinner!
tim said,
March 17th, 2005 at 12:34 pm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4531695
Not exactly knitting, but since you’re a programmer, I thought you might find the story rather interesting ;)