Just wanted to see what would happen...

**cessna152towser** · 7th May 10, 02:15 AM

Excellent, all's well that ends well.

**Iain Robb** · 7th May 10, 04:15 AM

I'm surprised ... I thought all wool felted when agitated. Does the delicate cycle not agitate?

**MrShoe** · 7th May 10, 06:54 AM

Great news on both kilts.

Do you have pictures of the stitch work performed by your Asian wonder-woman?

**wildrover** · 7th May 10, 09:21 AM

...Edna Mode?

**B. Somm** · 7th May 10, 11:46 PM

[Edna] Fine, I'll fix the hobo suit..." [/Edna]

LOL!

B.

(NoCalPiper: Ya gotta post pics of the repair! I'm curious to see how it turned out!)

**OC Richard** · 8th May 10, 04:46 AM

Like many here, I've eaten Indian food while kilted many times. So far my luck has held and no accidents! So glad to hear that your kilt was saved.

The town I live in, Tustin, we now call "Tustinabad" due to the steadily increasing Indian population. Now there are 7 Indian restaurants within walking distance, and four Indian grocers, and Cricket is played in our local park.

My son and I have become quite addicted to our favourite restaurant, Haveli.

Get the same thing ten times in a row and it's different every time. Always great, but at the same time always a bit different. Keeps us coming back.

**piperdbh** · 8th May 10, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Iain Robb

I'm surprised ... I thought all wool felted when agitated. Does the delicate cycle not agitate?

Wool has to have heat, water and agitation to felt. Remove one of these components and you ain't got no felt. If Josh washed the kilt in cold water, felting didn't happen.

**artificer** · 8th May 10, 07:24 PM

Congrats on the disaster mitigation, and the repair from the previous disaster.

I'm partial to Bangalore Chicken or Mutton Vindaloo myself, and both of those are a bugger to shift as well once they hit your clothes (or your four year old drops them on himself...)

**Iain Robb** · 10th May 10, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Wool has to have heat, water and agitation to felt. Remove one of these components and you ain't got no felt. If Josh washed the kilt in cold water, felting didn't happen.

Thank you! That makes sense.

**Ian.MacAllan** · 11th May 10, 04:20 PM

Yes, this method works well. I had a similar problem about a year ago with a Stillwater heavyweight kilt and used food. I washed it by hand in the bathtub, using cool water and a child's shampoo and hanging the kilt to drip-dry. The pressing was more work than the washing but the result was very satisfactory.

The hardest part of the job was rigging a line from which to let the kilt dry. A Stillwater heavyweight saturated with water weighs about 20 pounds.

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