Happy Sunday! Today’s our monthly Felting Party, where anyone who’s interested in the felting process can come and watch the magic happen in our washing maching. Also, anyone who’s got finished projects that need felting come by and we felt in batches (by color). Sometimes it’s a little disconcerting to take hours [...]
How about a better picture of the finished Kureyon #92 day pack? OK. Check out how cool the straps are, with their gradient color striping, and both being very different. Also, I’ve been a good boy today……..not only did I pick all of the wool dingleberries off of this
but I also [...]
The Noro Kureyon color #92 version of Two Old Bags’ Felted Day Pack, as promised. Right now, it’s downstairs churning away in the washing machine. Kureyon, despite being a loosely-spun single (with tightly-spun spots, too) takes a good bit longer to felt down when compared to other wools like Cascade 220 and Brown [...]
All of a sudden, many bloggers seem to be working with Noro yarns, and Kureyon in particular. Submitted for your approval:
Kathy recently finished a pullover using it in the yoke (sorry, couldn’t find the picture in her finished works gallery, but I saw some purty thangs there)
Crafty Revo has something new on the [...]
The body of bag is complete but needs straps prior to felting. It’s going to be interesting to see it felted. You will later today, once I get the odds and ends wrapped up. I promise!
Have a great Friday!
Here’s where we stand, as of 8 p.m. this evening. I’m still buckin’ to have it finished by the close of the day, but I’m not sure I’ll make the goal of having it felted as well. ENJOY!
Several of you have e-mailed me asking about the Kureyon Felted Day Pack I’m currently working on in colorway #92. As of 1:24 p.m. EST today, I had finished round 42 (of 100ish). That means I should finish it tonight, without question. If I do, I’ll try to felt it as well, [...]
In yesterday’s entry, I talked about the difference between the 9456 (my
latest felting project shown in Tuesday’s entry, below) and a couple shades that I feel are more like
denim (Julie had a goal of making a felted bag that looks like denim). While the
9456 is a beautiful shade of blue, it’s not very similar [...]
When they’re beautiful felted fabric, the blues are a good thing–in my opinion. Now to see if Julie and Maggi (and anyone else out there) all agree with me. Behold the beauty of felted blue fabric, with a special twist
9456 Yarn
9456 Felt
Yesterday I mentioned that the finished fabric has a deep sapphire tone [...]
I felted last night, and the goods are nearly dry (our weather here has been damp for three days, and not conducive to drying out smelly wet wool). As always, I’m surprised in a good way about how the finished felted fabric looks after the entire process is over. Of course, I’m not [...]