Posted on Monday 14th April, 2008 by Shana in Craftwork, Knitting
I’ve been experimenting with felting. If there’s one thing I’ve learnt, it’s don’t buy cheap wool, one ball felted ok, the other just went limp!
I splashed out and bought some Twilleys Freedom Spirit wool which comes in the most delicious multi-colours imaginable! I then followed the instructions for fulling wool as it seemed pathetic putting a tiny sample piece into the washing machine. And with a front loader, it’s not that easy to control what is going on.
So in a washing up bowl and put some pure soap flakes, and almost boiling water, swished it around then put my knitting in and swished some more. I swished, squeezed, pummelled, put it on the draining board and using the ridges, rubbed it back and forth. Then I rinsed it out in cold water and just for good measure, did some more swishing, squeezing and pummelling!
It actually didn’t take that long and was great fun, and here is the finished article. Yes I know it’s tiny, it was going to be a bowl but ended up being a pin tray. And it wasn’t because I over-fulled, it was because I was impatient to see the results and stopped knitting!
