untonuggan: A black-and-white photo of a Victorian woman (victorian lady)
[personal profile] untonuggan
So felting is way easy, and a happy thing if you do it on purpose. (Also, if you protect your washing machine from the extra fibers that come off during the felting process...broken washing machines are not happy. Fortunately, a pillowcase can do this.) Knitty has a tutorial on machine felting and on what I call "butter churn style felting". I used both methods, and I have to say I prefer butter churn style felting but it does do a number on your shoulders/spoon count.

Project number one: Felted notions bag (for quick carry tape measure, needle, scissors, etc)

Felted Notions Bag
Red and pink speckled small square bag with a flap and white button.

The process for this was really easy. I cast on about 70 stitches (number variable) in Shepherd's Wool (note: not superwash) and knit a rectangle until it looked like it was slightly larger than I wanted the purse to be. Then I folded it in three and sewed up the sides, leaving the flap free. I felted it using the process above, cut a hole for the button, and attached a button. Hurrah, a notions bag! You can dazzle them up with notions and embroidery and things, but I decided I liked this simple and elegant.

Felted Flower
White felted "rose" with two green leaves on a wooden table.

I used malabrigo worsted scraps for this. I don't have a good tutorial for this one because I based it roughly on something in a book but adapted it a bit. There are other tutorials out there on felted flowers, I'm sure, or books in your local library. Anyway, it was not hard and took maybe 2 episodes of Futurama (plus the time for felting, drying, and sewing the leaves to the rose). I'm going to attach a pin to the back so my mom can wear it on her coat.

Date: 2012-12-20 02:18 pm (UTC)
chalcopyrite: a swatch of knitting with various colours of yarn and sizes of stitch (knittery)
From: [personal profile] chalcopyrite
Pretty!

Now I want to knit something just so I can felt it. ;)

Date: 2012-12-20 03:15 pm (UTC)
ngakmafaery: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ngakmafaery
...very cute, and it gives me an idea too, of maybe making a little pouch, sort of faery-pagany-woodsy-looking, in maybe greens and browns to felt...thanks for the little tutorial!

Date: 2012-12-20 03:54 pm (UTC)
spiralsheep: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society (Sewing Circle Terrorist Society)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
I love both of those. Yay for intentional felting!

Date: 2012-12-20 04:45 pm (UTC)
sauscony: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sauscony
Those projects are great, I especially like the rose. Thanks for the link to the tutorials. I have felted sweaters on purpose in the washer (and my mom once felted a thrifted Benetton sweater by putting it in the dryer, which I now wish she hadn't thrown away because I could have used it in so many projects) and I hand felted some small pieces by just squishing them in my hands with hot water and soap, but the bucket method is calling my name. ;-)

Date: 2012-12-20 05:20 pm (UTC)
31stcentury: (Default)
From: [personal profile] 31stcentury
ooh pictures! I want to reach through the screen and touch them.

also I like that you measured the time by Futurama episodes!

Date: 2012-12-20 09:49 pm (UTC)
pipisafoat: image of virgin mary with baby jesus & text “abstinence doesn’t work" (yay!)
From: [personal profile] pipisafoat
this is exactly what I was going to say. *hi5*

Date: 2012-12-20 06:26 pm (UTC)
lhune: (CUPPA)
From: [personal profile] lhune
They both look very beautiful, I especially love the rose ♥

Date: 2012-12-21 02:52 am (UTC)
pipisafoat: image of virgin mary with baby jesus & text “abstinence doesn’t work" (glow jar)
From: [personal profile] pipisafoat
Also I meant to ask, felting typically comes out about the same size it went in? I want to make a bag for my favorite (okay, only) meditation rug & some other things I tend to travel with for easy-go, but I'm afraid of it coming out too small; I don't know that I have any basis for my fear of massive shrinkage.

Date: 2012-12-21 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] lynnoconnacht
Ooooh... Those are lovely! <3<3 I want to reach through the screen and touch them too!

Date: 2012-12-22 02:58 pm (UTC)
raze: A man and a rooster. (Default)
From: [personal profile] raze
Both very pretty, and interesting! My sisters-in-law both do felting, and actually felted their wedding cake topper. I find if fascinating in a "oh my god, that's amazing and I have not the skill to do such a thing" sense XD

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