<p>You all make me feel like a complete slacker. I wash wool stuff in cold water in the delicate cycle in the front-loading washer. Even cashmere. </p>
<p>I knit. When you make something out of wool, the last step is to block it. You wash it, gently, in cold water, then shape it into what you want and let it dry. As long as you haven’t felted it, wool will take a lot of shaping. </p>
<p>(One of my favorite hats is felted cashmere… Very warm. It came out too big when I knitted it, so I just felted it until the size was perfect.)</p>