![]() While the shirt dries, give it a few more stretches here and there. Wring it out and lay (or drape over the back of a dining room chair) and stretch it out every which way. I used about 1 tsp per quart of warm water, so you can double or triple depending on the size of the garment. Because to my surprise, it actually worked! Fast forward to now, I’m glad I tried it. Should I even bother with rayon? I figured I don’t have anything to lose. Stretch out the garment in all directions and lay flat to dry. The formula for unshrinking fibers was a little hair conditioner and water soak. But wait! I then remembered a method I had tried a few years earlier with a shrunken cashmere sweater. I’m now thinking that this shirt is going to my youngest daughter a few years early. Warm washed instead of cold, tumble dried when I should have laid out flat, used the regular cycle instead of gentle. I got this wrong on just about every front. My first thought was….who would make a child’s shirt out of rayon? Who decided that moms and dads needed to add a bit more fuss to their lives by making us pay this much attention to laundry? Do I sound dramatic? Let me say it again. I hate fussing over laundry. Panicked, I of course went straight to “what did I do wrong?” and searched frantically for the care instructions tag. While folding a load of my oldest daughter’s clothes, I came upon her favorite new shirt, which now looked like it would fit her perfectly, about 3 sizes ago! I’ve found out about the existence of rayon in kid’s clothes the hard way. Rayon? In kids clothes? Isn’t that the same cloth that in some cases you shouldn’t even get wet? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? But lately I’ve found kid’s clothes makers are throwing out some curve balls. Mostly unfussy cotton blends that wash and dry without much fuss. In my 10+ years as a parent, I’ve found that kids clothes were typically the easiest to care for. However, this last load left me wondering how to go about unshrinking rayon. Just give me the ‘ole warm wash and tumble dry, please. ![]() The sorting, deciding what to tumble dry or line dry.
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