Thurlow wrote:
I am faced with a perplexity on how to clean something, and I'm hoping
our vast reservoir of cumulative knowledge might come to the rescue.
I have several quilts made by my great-grandmother, and from time to
time use them on my bed, as they are wonderfully warm. Recently
however, a new feline member of the family, for reasons unknown, felt
the need to relieve herself on my bed. Fortunately I caught her at it
before she could complete the process. While there was a modern
washable blanket on top of the quilt, enough soaked through onto the
quilt to soil it.
The quilt is made of calico (so it's cotton), and it's lined (insulated)
with raw unwashed wool. So then, how does one clean this sort of
soilage out of this type of quilt, other than carefully? Should I use
something like Woolite? Will that work? I don't want to try anything
yet for fear of doing something untoward to the wool. I was able to
blot considerable excess urine with paper towels immediately after the
adventure.
Thurlow
Can you soak it in a cool solution of biological washing powder ?In the
bath maybe, for as long as possible, to make sure that all traces of
the urine are removed, otherwise the little darling will just kept
going back to the smell, then just very gently swish the quilt around
in the bath in clean cold water to rinse. I have found this works with
supposedly non-washable rugs in a similar crisis.
Good luck
Rosemary
Somerset, UK
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