All summer long, a group of women have been meeting in our church basement to learn knitting for our resident expert Nita. She's taught all of us quite a bit this summer.
The young girls have also enjoyed learning. They are working on a variety of washclothes, doll scarves, or scarves for themselves (depending on attention span).
I finished placemat number 4. I think it may be the last one for a while. I have a few other things that I want to try out.
This summer Nita taught me how to knit in the round and how to felt. This is a purse before felting. Felting is running it through the washer with hot water. The purse shrinks and also gets fuzzy.
Here's the finished purse drying. See how much it shrunk? Pretty cool.
The young girls have also enjoyed learning. They are working on a variety of washclothes, doll scarves, or scarves for themselves (depending on attention span).
I finished placemat number 4. I think it may be the last one for a while. I have a few other things that I want to try out.
This summer Nita taught me how to knit in the round and how to felt. This is a purse before felting. Felting is running it through the washer with hot water. The purse shrinks and also gets fuzzy.
Here's the finished purse drying. See how much it shrunk? Pretty cool.
2 comments:
woo, that's great! The felted purse is very cool and exciting! How did the felting process go?
The placemat look excellent as part of a *set table*, good work!
The felting process went very well. The hardest part was picking up the hot dripping purse from the washing machine and trying to see if it had shrunk enough.
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