Carol knits up sample sections in wool and I look at these knitted lengths and try come up with something remarkable. Well folks, I think I did it with this. I had the pebbles, large and small in a candle arrangement. I carefully, used tiny rubber bands wrapped and secured the pebbles in the wool. It then went into my Wonder Washer with a hat I had crocheted to be felted. It made a bit of a racket as the pebbles got tossed around. I wanted to keep a close eye on the hat because I’d over felted the last one I had knitted. When I’d pulled the hat out I noticed I had lost some pebbles. Removing the pebble relief I replaced some of the pebbles and restarted my felting.
The finished hat was not perfect in size but it is good enough and the relief piece dipping wet look very interesting. I got as much water as I could out and hung it outside the drip. It was still not dry in the morning but I used my hair dryer. I did not want to make another purse so I decided on a wall hanging. I removed the rubber bands and then needle felted the matching wool yarn into the felting piece using straight lines and a scrolling effect. I am thrilled with it and hope Carol is as well! I have one other sample knitted with Alpaca yarn she gave me to create something out of. Hum, I wonder what it will become. Carol is an amazing knitter . . . Check out her blog for some of our other joint efforts. There are some cool purses from Carol’s sample knits that I finished off.
