[lisas]

I'm wondering if I'm washing my wool too often. I use the wool as clothing and with an active child I find I wash after every wearing because it's dirty from outside play. Will this ruin or shorten the life of the wool?

 

[SEEPAE]

I wash maybe once a month

maybe you could have a pair specifically for outside? I dont think itll ruin it but it will over time wear thin and become more pilly

 

[Boadicea]

I just washed my wool two days ago for the first time in six weeks. I agree with Sara, you might want to reserve a pair or two for outside play and use the rest at other times. Or maybe just spot clean your wool between washings?

 

[lisas]

We play outside alot! I'll have to rethink the way we use our wool shorts. I think the wahms that sell the wool wash are going to miss me though! :LOL

 

[grnmtnmama]

we don't wash the wool very often, maybe once a month. we use our wool shorts outside as well, and my ds is one of those messy kids that sits in the middle of the dirtpile and throws dirt on himself. well, most of that shakes off and we're generally able to keep using the shorts. that's one of the things i love the most about wool - you can just keep wearing and wearing and wearing them.

 

[Saartje]

Really, if you're treating it as well as most mamas here seem to treat their wool, it will probably hold up fine. Wool can take a lot of use, as long as it's taken care of properly. If your wool were going to pill it would already be doing so; your worries are felting it (again, proper care eliminates that); snagging it, if knit (not much to be done about this one, though if you had something prone to snag, again, you'd probably already be aware of that); or it just plain wearing thin (this is one of the wonderful things about wool — it takes ages for this to happen, and I suspect the lanolin will hold it up further).

 

[sarakay2]

We had to separate our indoor wool with our outdoor wool. I wash some once a month and the stuff that gets the most abuse is washed weekly.

I no longer try to get all the marks off. One of the first times Ds was outside in wool, w/dh he sat in a large mud puddle.

 

[kenzie&wyatt'smom]

My two play outside in there wool all the time most of it just shakes off. I try to only wash wool every other week and I rotate there wool alot so that no certain pair is getting to much abuse. Although that is hard because I do have my favorites. I think with proper washing and care you wool will hold up fine even with a lot of washes.

 

[GranolaMoon]

Once a month for the regularly used wool, unless it's met poop. In that case I usually just spot clean then lanolize once a month like usual.

 

[sewingbarbj]

Wool is a very durable fabric!.The best hiking ware and much of the old style military every day wear sweaters are made of wool.
I use my wool as clothing and wash it frequently.
Get a good pill shaver if the pills bother you.
Make sure you are adding lanoline to keep the fibre from drying out .
What you may see happen is color fade over many washes, you may want to skip the fragrance in your wool products the solvent used in the fragrance oil can strip color.
This is less of a problem if you aren't washing often.
Enjoy your wool, they grow out of it so fast anyway!

 

[mistymama]

I have a bunch of wool and it gets rotated pretty well, so I'd say I only wash maybe every 6 weeks or so.

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[babykinsx2mom]

Unless our wool is soiled from um.. well lets look at last nights fun in the Comet cleanser episode, I only hang it outside to sun. We never get stinky wool, so if it starts to leak, I soak it in a lil wool wash and hang to dry. We do have pretty wool and play wool, so some gets used more often than others.