The cold season, the season of thick sweaters, is over, and now they all need to be washed and put away for the summer. It’s going to take me a while.

It’s not the washing that takes time but the drying. My thickest knits take at least two days to dry fully.

There’s room for two sweaters on the dining table. I guess I could spread another one out elsewhere, but the next limiting factor is bath towels. A sweater straight out of water is going to be dripping, no matter how hard you squeeze the water out of it. The way to get most of the water out is to spread the sweater on a thick bath towel, roll them both up, then add more pressure by standing and treading on it. Afterwards the sweater will be much dryer and the bath towel will be soaked. So I’ve got two sweaters drying on the dining table, and two bath towels drying in the laundry room, so that they can be ready for the next two sweaters.