Smelly felted wool?

[tuscanymom]

I have felted wool before but I've never had this happen. I went to take it out of the washer and it stunk. It's been stored in my attic for a while. All I can think of is everytime my baby pees I'm going to smell this. Anyone know a way to make it smell better? I just put it in for a second round.
thanks
jessica

[fek&fuzz]

Maybe lay it out in the sun for a while?

[luvmy2boyz]

Were you over at my house today? I just felted some sweaters today and a couple of them had been stored for a couple of years in a rubbermaid box...anyway, woof! They smelled awful! I went ahead and dried them and they smelled a little better--I might try to wash them again with some baking soda? I'm just worried that if I wash them on hot again they'll get too felted? Is that possible? It's been a couple of years since I made a wool cover.

Hope the 2nd run through did the trick for your sweaters!

[tuscanymom]

I ran them again on hot and only the one piece seemed to get more felted. The smell is still there but not when I dried it. I'm going to try the sun, when it stops raining. I'm hoping over time it will improve. I've gotta get covers made, I'm due in two weeks.

[Kari_mom]

Do they smell like a barn? I had some wool like that. I stripped out the lanolin with Dawn, then relanolized with lansinoh.

Maybe some TTO in the rinse would help too. Good luck!

[courtenay_e]

I had one that did that, it smelled like MOTH BALLS, but only after it was washed! I washed it again, and I could still smell it, but not as bad as before. I figured that it wouldn't ever be completely saturated again unless it was being washed, so the stink wouldn't be THAT bad... It was generally okay, too. There were only a couple of really heavy wetting night times that it was too noticeable.

[LizzysMommy]

I have yet to felt the wool fabric that I have for making covers...but in the past when I have cold-washed and air-dried wool sweaters of my own, they always have a distinct smell when they are wet. I hate that smell. I hadn't even thought about a wool cover smelling like that when wet...hopefully felting and lanolizing it will take care of the problem. I haven't ever read of people having this problem with wool diaper covers, so it must not smell the same way.

[BirthFree]

When I felted my wool I used Suave shampoo and that's exactly what it smelled like when I took it out of the dryer too. Since wool is hair my guess is that you need to wash on hot with a shampoo to get the smell out (not cover it up, but to wash the hair of wool). Hope you get it out!