In the life long process of washing clothes I have turned a number of items into something from human size to cabbage patch doll size, no effort at all to accomplish. Now I have a pair of knitted fingerless gloves, that have upon wearing, proved to be sizes too big. Figured I would turn them into boiled wool, or at least a tighter knit. Have given them three baths of boiling water, two dryer sessions and one drying on the radiator. They are the still the same size. How does that happen?