Felt Making with Knits Ideas from Crystal Palace Yarns - Straw Into Gold
Using printed wool or non-wools as additions to knitted felt
I've been experimenting with making felt using the printed colors of our Labrador (thick-thin spun yarn) and Iceland (smooth spun soft wool) and the interesting patterning and texture of the surface of printed colors adds an additional fun aspect to felting.
With both Labrador and Iceland being bulky you can knit up the piece for felting quickly on size 15 needles.
Here some before and after felting swatches using Labrador (with measurements):
Above knit on 15s in garter
using Labrador wool
stitch using color Picnic #7263
with a little stripe of solid
color #1219 fuchsia Iceland
6" x 5.5"
Above after felting*
4.5" x 4.5"
Above knit on 15s in rev Stst
areas on 15s with Iceland in color "shadows" #7268
100% soft wool
5" x 5.5"Above after felting*
4.5" x 4"* For felting these - I put the pieces in the washing machine with a small load of bath towels and did a 5 minute wash cycle. Since they were not felted as much as I wanted, I put them in the dryer with the towels and took them out when the towels were about half dry (10-15 min.)
SEE also photos of Iceland felted with Blippity yarn here.
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