amayabikuni asked:

This might be a little outside of your general ask wheelhouse, but google has been full of unhelpful commentary bout yarn types for me. Do you or any other followers have any ideas about softening acrylic yarn? Its cheap, common and easy to make stuff out of, but the scratchy texture makes some of it less useable than I would like

wastelesscrafts answered:

Softening up acrylic yarn

I’ve yet to try these methods myself, but hair conditioner and fabric softener are often used for this purpose.

You could wash your finished project using these methods, or you could wash the skein first and then work with it. To do this without your yarn becoming a tangled mess, put your skein into an old pantyhose first and tie it so the hose fits tightly around the skein. Put your pantyhose-covered skein in a laundry bag for extra security. Then wash it on your machine’s delicate setting or by hand.