Laundering a large, heavy knitted afghan

[debodun]

After that quilt disaster a few weeks ago, I am dubious about washing this afghan. Every time I move it, some of the fringe falls off and it has 2 "bumps" from where it had rested on the back of a chair for decades. It seems a shame to trash it. Not counting the fringe, it is 65" long and 39" wide. That's a lot of yarn. I just discarded another afghan, but that was small and in even worse condition that this (it had holes and bad cat odor). What would you do?

 

[RadishRose]

Throw it out.

 

[Aunt Marg]

After that quilt disaster a few weeks ago, I am dubious about washing this afghan. Every time I move it, some of the fringe falls off and it has 2 "bumps" from where it had rested on the back of a chair for decades. It seems a shame to trash it. Not counting the fringe, it is 65" long and 39" wide. That's a lot of yarn. I just discarded another afghan, but that was small and in even worse condition that this (it had holes and bad cat odor). What would you do?

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If you care to hang onto it and want it clean, I would look at hand-washing it in the bathtub.