5 posts tagged “felting”
I finished and felted these two weeks ago and I'm just now getting to the photos.
The handbag was made with Lion Brand Landscapes on the green long loom. It has a flat bottom using the stretched-across method. I don't know if that has a real name, but I call it stretched-across. The drawstring purse is made with Landscapes and Paton's wool on the blue loom. It also has a flat bottom using the method with the fancy name.
Landscapes isn't 100% wool so it didn't felt the way I expected it would. I might have run it through again but I can only monopolize my sister's washer for so long. Still, I like how they turned out and have been using them - the little purse as a wallet inside the big purse.
I have been working on some handbags that are to be felted. Not having a washing machine, I have to wait until I got to my sister's to do the felting. I have tried one by hand a while ago and really didn't like how it looked. Having a washing machine is one of my dreams. *sigh* Others dream of fame and power, I dream of being able to do laundry at home.
AC Moore had a yarn sale "event" type thing on Saturday. The sales ad mentioned a hat and scarf drive to benefit the American Cancer Society. In the fall, I made up several hats and scarves with yarn left over from previous projects. I wasn't making them for anyone in particular; sometimes I like making things I can't mess up and that don't require much thought. So, I took the bag to donate. Would have been nice if they'd mentioned the hat/scarf drive to the employees, but I eventually found out where to go. I also bought a ball of yarn while I was there. Just one. First yarn purchase since January first. But, I was only buying it to finish a project as I didn't have enough. So it practically doesn't count.
I have back pain that is interfering with my knitting. Or might be caused by my knitting. Either way, it's irritating. Is there such a thing as a back brace for people who tend to hunch over their work?
I have been clean and sober for nine days. Yarn-buying sobriety, that is. Mom sent me her old circular needles so I have no more desire to spend money on those. I haven't tried the needles, though.
I am working on making this handbag in cranberry wool, but using the round yellow loom because I don't have the KK long yellow loom. I don't have the pink spool loom either (and can't find the knitting spool I do have) so I tried three I-cords braided together for the handles and don't like how they turned out so I'm going to try something else. I tested felting the yarn by hand (sans machine) and it felted up great in little time. Not sure yet about lining it but I do have fabric if I decide to do it.
I am losing feeling in some of my fingers. Now it's mostly the left hand. I guess I should take a break from knitting but I'm on a roll. Typing is difficult.
I started a cowl (this is the general idea, but I made up my own pattern) for my nephew's fiancée. Here are photos:
I am using Lion Brand Romance using two stands. I got to about 3 - 4 inches and decided I didn't like the way it was looking. I pulled it all out. For the second time. I can't decide if I should try one strand on this loom or two strands on the Knifty Knitter yellow loom. I guess maybe this is what happens to people who make up their own patterns - pulling out and redoing, I mean.
I have been very disappointed with the selection of wool in the craft stores around here. Quite by accident (on random yarn site, clicked the button for where I can find the yarn near me) I discovered there is a yarn shop in the next town. An actual yarn shop. I am off work today so I am going to venture out and see if (a) it really exists and (b) I can locate it.
I am also working on what will be my first felting (fulling, whatever) project. Using the black alpaca, I am going to make iPod purses for my best friend and one of her daughters (the other daughter is 14 and, like most teenagers, naturally doesn't like anything). The hardest part is that I don't have one of these gadgets myself so I'm iffy on the size, even though I looked it up online and got the dimensions. Not having a model is difficult. Maybe I can take my knitting into Target, see how it matches up against an iPod (those that are bolted to the shelf) and make security uncomfortable.
I got some alpaca chunky yarn on sale for $4.47 per hank. I want to learn how to felt and make a felted purse.
