You may have more luck posting this is the laundry forum (there are some real laundry gurus there). I would want more information about these sweaters. What material are they? Cashmere? Silk? Are the embellished with something? I personally love Vaska Herbatergent (I have the lavender one) for my fine washables but I also have the Laundress Wool/Cashmere. I'm not a huge fan of the Laundress line but the wool/cashmere really does do a beautiful job. http://store.thelaundress.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TL&Category_Code=135woolCash Here is a link that might be useful: Vaska

Oh, that is really nice. I hope to someday be able to knit like that. I have made 2 sweaters, one for an adult and one for a toddler. But they have mistakes in them, but not bad for my first ones. My husband says you would never even know there were mistakes, but I know. I am going to try again though, practice makes perfect!! I just love it when you all put your pictures in here for us all to admire. It inspires me!

I love the one you posted that was a ripple but not the 'ubiquitous ripple'. I also love the Aran one. I've received several afghans over the years and I've loved them all. The baby sized ones are in the linen closet for grandchildren-to-come. I keep one (totally doesn't go with anything in my house) in my bedroom closet for an extra blanket when I want one. DD keeps one in her room and another in the TV room. (and wants the one I keep in my room for herself) I cherish all of them because they were made with so much love. My cousin (now a father of 3) still has the one I made for him as a bar mitvah present. Having said all that, I'd go for an ivory or cream, since it would be easier for the couple to keep it somewhere visible, rather than tucking it away somewhere. They're lucky to have someone in their lives who'd put so much of herself into a gift for them. Story of one of the baby ones: my mother or aunt mentioned to an long-time friend of my grandmother's that I was expecting. My grandmother had been gone 20 years by then. The friend knitted and sent to me two lovely baby sweaters. I thanked her via letter, telling her how much it meant to me that a friend of my grandmother's would think of me at this time in my life. She wrote back and invited us to stay with her the next time we went to California, and we went and visited her. She passed about a year after the visit, when I was expecting my second. I sent a letter of sympathy to her sister (who'd I never met), telling her the story of the sweaters and how much it meant to me and that I'd saved them and would be using them for my on-the-way child. Her response was to send a baby afghan! I will treasure it and look forward to someday using it for their children. And it still makes me happy inside to think that my grandmother had had such special loving friends in her life.

Steam iron it. Do not use high heat. Do not let the iron stop on the sweater--keep it moving lightly over the sweater. Don't press down on the iron. If a wrinkle is stubborn, give it an extra shot or two of steam, pat the steam into the fabric, but do not more heat. You don't want to "kill" the wool.