[Nfb-krafters-korner] slippers pattern

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Valerie     
 
With those wonderful natural wools that are hand spun, it would be a great  
idea of getting some of that type of yarn and doubling it up.  Like the  
Irish knit sweaters the yarn can hold in some  of the oils and could give a  
water resistant characteristic .  That is how they do the fishermen's  
sweaters.  The best way I can describe how felting feels...  Think  what your 
knitting feels like.  You can feel the stitches almost  indivisually depending 
on what size knitting needles you used.  Well after  you felt it, it feels 
more like your wool coat.  A coat that is made from  wool fabric.  It fills in 
the weave of the individual threads.  So the  larger the needles  and the 
amount of felting you do will determine how the  felting will feel, look and 
fill in.
 
There are more then one way to felt and I won't go into that now.  The  
class that I want to do is a knit and felt using a water hand or machine  wash.
 
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