Blog entries tagged Felt

My Feet

Shelley — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:41:32 +0100

Pattern: Ballerina Felt Slippers from Fiber Trends
Yarn: Patons Classic Wool in Blueberry
Size: Women's Small
Yardage: 1 skein
Needles: 6.00 mm bamboo circular (24")

These are great slippers. In fact there are so sturdy feeling they are more like knitted shoes. It took five trips through our washing machine to get them to fit my feet - we have a front...

Something Else

Shelley — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:26:47 +0100

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This is another project from Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts. The needle book but with a couple of variations becaus...

On the Indelicate Treatment of Wool

Shelley — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:50:37 +0100

Pattern: “Booga Bag” from Black Sheep Bags

Yarn: Noro Kureyon in colour #178

Yardage: 3 skeins

Needles: 7.00 mm bamboo 24” circular

My Booga Bag is finished! This was a really fun project. The knitting was simple and colourful and the end product is great. The long colour transitions in the Noro yarn are fun to watch as they em...

Something Old, Something New...

Shelley — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:44:40 +0100

This is my wedding bouquet. I’m certain that our photographer has some lovely pictures of it so I’ll save detail shots until then. It is made of felt, beads, wire, floral tape, lace, silk and yarn. I spent most of Friday working on it and I was really pleased with the way it turned out. Robhad a matching boutonniere of a small white flower and a couple of the tiny blu...

Sisters

Shelley — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:49:03 +0100

Pattern: My Own “Lacy Squares”Yarn: Lace weight spun from SULIFibres “Autumn” Merino woolYardage: approximately 120mNeedles: 3.00 mm bamboo circular (16”)

Pictured above are my finished Autumn Lace Squares scarf, on the right, and my original Autumn Felt scarf, on the left. I finished my knit scarf at World Wide KI...

Over-enthusiasm

Shelley — Tue, 29 May 2007 03:25:56 +0100

So... Once you start spinning you develop this need for fibre. And when you look around a little bit on the web you discover all sorts of people dyeing all sorts of fibres in all sorts of beautiful colours. And if you keep looking you find people selling the plain undyedfibre and even the dyes and you think to yourself “I should give this try” and “It can’t be...

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Shelley — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:33:27 +0100

I am now two weeks into a felting class with a third class coming up tomorrow. This is so much fun!

You take a bunch of soft squishy wool in yummy colours, lay it out, squirt some soapy water on it and gently rub the suds around. After a little while it starts to feel a little different and you can a rub a little harder. Eventually it begins to feel kind of solid and you can roll it around a dowel on a table or toss it back and forth or throw it on the floor and it will just get...