loose waist & wrists on pullover

hi there!after a wash a c&a 40% nylon 30%merino wool 20%viscose
10%cashmere pullover i bought while on holiday now has its wrists and
waist 'elastic' parts are loose ! i only wore it once. is there any
way i can shrink these bits back to normal?
i now realize the label says "reshape whilst damp/dry flat".
thx,
S

"s"wrote:
hi there!after a wash a c&a 40% nylon 30%merino wool
20%viscose
10%cashmere pullover i bought while on holiday now has its
wrists and
waist 'elastic' parts are loose ! i only wore it once. is
there any
way i can shrink these bits back to normal?
i now realize the label says "reshape whilst damp/dry
flat".
thx,
S

Have you tried dampening the wrist and waist areas and
re-shaping them while drying flat?

Oh, and by the way, your shift key isn't working.

Furrfu....

You can look on the sewing notions wall and find a spool of elastic thread.
Then just use a hand needle with a large eye, put a knot in the end and draw
it through the wrist band This is the easy way to fix it.
Barbara in FL.
"s" wrote in message
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hi there!after a wash a c&a 40% nylon 30%merino wool 20%viscose
10%cashmere pullover i bought while on holiday now has its wrists and
waist 'elastic' parts are loose ! i only wore it once. is there any
way i can shrink these bits back to normal?
i now realize the label says "reshape whilst damp/dry flat".
thx,
S

You can look on the sewing notions wall and find a spool of elastic thread.
Then just use a hand needle with a large eye, put a knot in the end and draw
it through the wrist band *This is the easy way to fix it.


I would add one thing to this -- run the elastic thread around and
around and around through the entire wrist bands and waist band so the
entire bands are tightened and made stretchy. Don't pull tightly at
all, of course --- just enough to pull it into the original shape.
(When I knit with certain yarns I just add the elastic with the yarn
for the bands.) By the way, you want the very thin, thread-size
elastic thread, which comes in clear, white, and black. Sometimes
it's a bit expensive, but is worth it!