Winter Laundry

You know how I feel about line-dried sheets. Getting into my fresh bed every Monday night, is one of the highlights of my week. The sheets smell so good, they feel so good...it's a wonderful moment that involves all my senses. We spend 30% of our lives IN BED -- so making that bed special is one of the best, most simple ways to show somebody you love them.

But, if you live in Iowa -- the winter does NOT make this an easy task...

Although, sheets WILL dry if you hang them outside -- it takes much longer -- and it's more of a Freeze-dried process...

When Mary was here, we both bought a pair of pillowcases that looked great. Beautiful embroidery on both sets. But -- DRATS -- when we opened them up -- they had that man-stained yellow. Ugh. You saw how hard Mary worked to get hers white...and I was encouraged by her efforts...

So, I soaked my pillowcases.  Then washed them.  Several times.  Then used the super-duper secret soak...but the yellow stain was still faintly visible...

So, I tried the lay-them-directly-on-the-snow trick. 

The theory here has something to do with the interaction of the SUN and the SNOW...how the combination creates a natural bleaching. I had great luck with this in the past, with a set of damask pillowcases that were brown from poor storage...I wonder about this yellow stain?? Hey -- WORTH A TRY, EH?? 

I washed the pillowcases again (probably the 6th time)...and laid them on the snow....VERY, VERY wet...

Because it was ten degrees BELOW zero -- they freeze dried almost immediately...

I could stand them up like a deck of cards...