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Shrunken sweaters aren't a new occurrence around my house. Usually, the problem was a wool sweater ending up in the dryer - and coming out in a size that perfectly fit our large cat. The problem was that the sweaters didn't belong to our large cat.
The kids were learning to do their own laundry through trial and error. So we went about finding a way to unshrink a sweater through trial and error. We tried a bunch of different methods - and lost a couple of sweaters along the way.
Then we found a solution that worked brilliantly: Washing a shrunken sweater in baby shampoo. This loosened the fibers enough that we could gently stretch and pin them back to their size and shape on a bulletin board. We haven't had a sweater casualty since.
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