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basin felting, bathtub gin
So the felt thing is a wee project for my mother's birthday, a change-purse thing. I'm going for about three and a half inches square. I knit a piece yesterday and tried to shrink it in the bathroom sink, because using the washing machine is not on when laundry is $1.50 a load. (I don't want to put it in with my regular laundry because it's red and not at all colorfast, and would ruin even a load of darks.) Sadly, I completely overestimated how much it would shrink using the hand-felting method, and I can still see the stitches and some gaps between them and so on. Feh.
This evening I made a smaller piece, and it's felting up much more nicely. I think because it's easier for me to agitate. It's about halfway to as dense as I'd like it, I think; it's soaking in a hot bath right now while I take a break. :-D
[eta: thingie is now happily drying on a "form" which is a lotion bottle on which it fits perfectly and, huzzah, symmetrically.]
This evening I made a smaller piece, and it's felting up much more nicely. I think because it's easier for me to agitate. It's about halfway to as dense as I'd like it, I think; it's soaking in a hot bath right now while I take a break. :-D
[eta: thingie is now happily drying on a "form" which is a lotion bottle on which it fits perfectly and, huzzah, symmetrically.]