abendgules: (knitting)
abendgules ([personal profile] abendgules) wrote2013-05-23 07:19 pm
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They worked!

I didn't expect my slippers to work - they were so huge and blobby and they weren't shrinking as quickly as I expected...but third wash and rinse was a charm.

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Flat knitted pieces, before sewing up and felting.

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Finished - sewn into footbags, and then felted. The lopi yarn is shedding a lot of longish hairs and fuzz, but I'm hoping that passes.

I can see the advantage of 'shearing' a felted fabric now (the way medieval cloth was felted, sheared, felted sheared again) in a way I hadn't before.

I posted them on Ravelry, if you're a Rav-ist (membership has its privileges).