Have you ever noticed those annoying little fuzz balls that build up on your clothes, blankets and upholstery? It’s called pilling, and it looks… well… bad. No worries, there is an easy way to remove lint balls from clothing and fabric; and the process takes just a couple seconds.
Pilling is those annoying little balls of lint that build up on clothes and fabrics over time. Lint rollers don’t work on pilling because these little fuzz balls are tightly attached to the fabric. I have seen people use a razor to go over pilling, but this idea has always scared me a bit. Instead, I found the most amazing tool EVER!
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What You Need to Remove Pilling from Clothes & Fabric
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How to Get Rid of Lint Balls on Clothes & Fabric
Let me show you our couch pillows that were covered in pilling.
Grab your Fabric Shaver and select your trim height. I have always gone with the lowest “trim”, but if you want a higher “shave”, you simply set it to what you want to use.
Then go over your item with the fabric shaver. Check out how well this works… and how easy it is!
Now look at the results!
I have tried this on many items of clothing as well. Every time the results are stunning. Everyone in our family fights over who’s going to remove pilling on certain items because it is so satisfying to watch all those little fuzz balls disappear.
When you are done using the fabric shaver, simply empty the lint compartment.
That’s all there is to it. Easy and effective… my kind of cleaning hack!
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I have used a sweater shaver similar to the one in your article for the “smoother” fabrics that pill for many years and it works great. But years ago, I read a tip somewhere that you should also keep a pumice stone on hand to use on sweaters, scarves, or anything other item knitted from yarns as sweater shavers can cut the yarn if the pill is pulled into the blade area. I picked one up that is used on your feet and has some thickness, not one of the wand ones. It givces me two sides so I can use one on light colors and one side on dark colors as “lint” can get caught in the stone surface of the stone and can hard to remove, even after rubbing it in the reverse direction to remover the pilling caught on the surface of the stone. Using the sides like this prevents any crossover in colors if lint gets left behind. I haven’t had any problems with that and it does a beautiful job of removing pills on knitted sweaters, scarves, etc.
I had bought one of those little machines that grind the pilling, but this one looks even better