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Have you ever felted a knitted wooly purse? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:22 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:27 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:59 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:44 pm
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Bigger needles, and a looser weave, yep. It's so the fibers can move more freely and lock into place better durring agitation. The purse will shrink more height-wise than lengthwise, so knit some extra rows up top so you don't get a squashy bag. (Leaned from first hand experience *cough*)
In case anyone's interested: How felting works
Hot water opens the wool fibers up. For mental imagery purposes, imagine a straight piece of fiber opening into a velcro hook. The agitation rubs those little hooks together and has them lock together creating a big mess of all these little hooks getting knotted up in other hooks. Since you knit so openly, when the hooks from one strand grab the hooks from another strand, it brings it closer, thus shrinking the fabric and creating little to no stitch deffinition. Now that everything's all knotted and hooked together, the cold water rinse will shock the fibers into closing. Kind of like shrinkwrap, but for mental imagry purposes, let's say it's like a padlock. There you have a felted object. If the fibers didn't lock as closely as you like, you can re-felt by re-doing the cycle. Open the fibers up, rub them together even more, lock them into place.
This process is easier to see and visualize if you hand felt something in the sink rather than use the washing machine.
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:13 am
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:34 am
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