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Month: October 2007

  • KNITTING : WHEN FELTING MISBEHAVES

    Img_0575This is what happens when you are impressed by the hats your knitting friends are felting into fetching headwear and you energetically  knit and get the loose-stitches,  huge-looking hat that looks as if an elephant could wear it and then you put it in the washing machine and take it out after a bit to make sure it isn’t felting too fast and find ………  a pancake!!!!  A felted pancake.  I have no idea why.  It has served over the years as a basis for dry needle felting (which is a lot of fun and rather magical to paint and draw with yarn!) and has almost been cut into insoles a few times.
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    This is what  happens when it works…..   I ‘m sure I did the same thing  as I did the first time. Makes you wonder…