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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I don’t do dry cleaning. You either survive the laundry gauntlet or you don’t.

The only thing I will hand wash are my knitted creations cause I put so much love and labor into them.

[–] night_petal@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago

I gave up on hand washing delicates despite their label insisting that was the only way a long time ago. It has never mattered for me.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, some Indonesian kid probably took pride in that sweater

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I highly doubt that, most knitted fast fashion is machine knitted because it is so much faster and more uniform. I do try to go for hand knitted stuff when I can ($$$) and then I hand wash it.

Edit: I should add that I hand wash it if it needs that. Acrylic yarn is fine in the machine, same with superwash yarn.