The yarn farm yarn

And while I was failing to make functional slippers Jeannette learned how to crochet and then made me a hat.

I definitely feel untalented right now.

Update: I forgot to mention that the hat matches a scarf that Jeannette made me last year.

Bummer of a trip to the felt ranch

So Jeannette thought that if baby booties were so easy that I should try to make her a pair felt slippers. Unfortunately I agreed to give this project a shot.

Now several hours later I have a few pieces of felt and one of the gnarliest 'slippers' I've ever seen. Ugh.

Back down on the felt ranch

After last Saturday's trip to the felt ranch I thought that there wasn't much more to do once the booties and owl had been finished.

Turns out that on Sunday I realized that I could make another trip back to the ranch to turn a handful of the scraps into something or other.  Of course, when I started the recycling project I was really just interested in getting a bunch of the scraps to stick together in something that resembled a ball.

Once I had a ball I decided to use a bit of the black wool that I had purchased (which, until then, had been unused).  From there the remaining bits and bobs just 'spoke to me' and revealed themselves as cat head components.

Now we have a poorly made felted cat head made from scraps and because I put a little bit of effort into it I'm not entirely inclined to throw it away.  Great.  This is the kind of thing we definitely need.

Big day on the felt ranch

The birth and anticipated births of a few friends' babies had Jeannette and I felting up a storm this afternoon/evening.

While I took care of most of the wool-into-felt part of the operation, Jeannette did an excellent job turning my raw 'fabric' into three dimensional structures that look like baby booties.

Oh, and in case you're curious - I did the owl all by myself.  And maybe for the first time in my life I've shaped something that isn't a piece of furniture or bread so that it looks like I hoped it would look.

Maybe if I'd been given some wool and a felting needle instead of crayons and paper kindergarten wouldn't have been such a struggle?

Getting my felt on - 3

It turns out I couldn't stay away from felting (or time-lapse) for very long.


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This afternoon I made a small felted bowl-type thing.  I am not yet sure which purpose it will serve, but I am generally pleased with the outcome, particularly for a second solo felting attempt.

The only aspect of the project that I am not quite satisfied with is the fact that some of the coloured wool seems to have bleed through to the other side of wherever it was placed.

Maybe at some point I will even give Jeannette a chance to give her felting stuff a test run.

Getting my felt on - 2

So the whole felting project moved along rather quickly.

Soon after starting with my basic and equipment and some unspun wool...

...I ended up with a mushroom shaped something or other, though it is currently functioning as a top-heavy pin cushion.

My only problem now is that I have an urge to do more felting and I can't think of anything useful to make.