You Learn Something Every Day!

 At least you do on a good day.  My Dear One points out to me periodically that my middle name is Oblivious. I have to say that I almost always find that he is correct.

Last week was time to wash my socks. I had soaked them in a tub of Eucalan wool wash then dumped them out to start draining. When it came time to squeeze them out I could not do it. My hands were just not strong enough.  What to do?

For some reason I thought of all the European washing machines that have a gentle wool cycle.  I went to our tiny laundry room and looked at our washer.  This is what I found:

There was the exact cycle I needed: Drain and Spin!! I had never seen it before! So I threw in all the pairs of wet clean socks and started the machine going.  When the cycle was over I laid the slightly damp socks on a towel on the edge of the bathtub.

This worked great!! Now I can have freshly washed hand knit and compression socks way more often…save up all the dirty socks, put them to soak in wool wash, empty the tub of wool wash and socks, return socks to plastic tub then throw in washer and turn on the Drain and Spin cycle. Let ‘em roll! In no time at all there will be clean damp socks and by the next morning a whole raft of clean socks to put in the drawer and wear. 

I was about to start on another mammoth hand-knit socks project. Now I can wait a while and finish up some of the currently on-the-needles projects. This is pretty important since my recent monogamous knitting scheme has gone to heck and I have so many things I am working on that I am about going over the edge…must finish quickly then get back to monogamy! I had found that a very relaxing and productive way to fill my knitting needs!

So happy I learned this new thing one day last week.  A new day has dawned.  What will I learn tomorrow?!