[Nfb-krafters-korner] felting

[Ohio Gardener]

Hello Joyce and all,

The topic of felting was being discussed awhile back(November 3rd to be more
precise)and Joyce had offered to teach a class in this if people were
interested. I have been thinking about this and would be interested in
making a felted purse. My husband wants me to make him some wool slippers.
So I would like to learn the process of felting. Hope others would like to
learn as well so we could have a class.

Ohio


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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] felting

For felting you begin with a yarn that is 100% wool that gives you basic  
washing instructions  that say wash by hand in cold water and lie flat to  
dry.  Then you can hold other types of yarn along with this when you knit
or 
crochet.  You will actually create your project larger then needed as it  
will shrink in size when you felt it.  Don't worry about using fiber along  
with the wool that will not felt.  As Linda said it creates interesting  
feeling fibers.  As far as bags or purses or cell phone pouches they use
felting 
a lot for these projects as the wool yarn does become a tighter weave  due 
to the felting.  Think of a wool winter coat.  The wool fiber is  woven 
tightly together to keep you warm and so the wind does not blow thru  it.
Well 
likewise when you felt a purse it tightens up the weave, it  causes the 
fiber to feel thicker so for a purse it makes it stronger and small  objects

will not work their way thru the weave.
 
I had taken a class a few years back and did a felted bag at a yarn shop in 
 town.  We did use different types of yarn to be knitted along with our 
100%  wool.  I used some fuzzy stuff, some other 100% wool dyed yarns and
some  
lacey type of yarn.  After I felted it it was such a unique tactle feeling  
bag.  
 
I have said maybe I would teach a felting class, but I have not done that  
yet.  So maybe if folks are interested I will do a class the beginning of  
the year.
 
Let me know who might like to do it.  The tough part is I don't have a  
yarn shop in town any more so I don't know exact names of yarns to refer you
to 
 trying out.  I am sure we could find something up at Web's that we could  
order if you can't find anything locally.
 
 
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com 
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