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April 01, 2004
A Felting We Will Go
A felting we will go, Hi Ho the Dairy O, A felting we will go.
I felted THE scarf. On purpose, I promise. It looks really neat. I only had to wash it twice to get it the thickness I wanted. I can say though, that making point-of-no-return decisions with articles you sweated blood over is not very much fun. I had no way to know whether I would get a Barbie scarf or not because I didn't do a test swatch (swatch-smatch, bah!). When it came out of the washer, I felt like I needed Paige Davis to help me open my eyes for the reveal.
So now add felting to my list of things I could be addicted to (along with knitting socks and using circulars for all knitting).
I found this book I had from back in the days when I was a craft ho - it is one of those 1970 Reader's Digest-like books on latch hook rugs that has really cool graphs in it. Unfortunately, it appears to be out of print, but, hey, at least *I* have one. One of the rugs in it is a version of the Picasso, Nude Woman in a Red Armchair. I think it is safe to say that Pablo Picasso had issues. But whomever did this latchhook rug version, put the anatomy in the correct place, leaving me with a gorgeous nude.
It is black, ecru, royal blue and red. I am going to make a felted wall hanging. This will also mark my first attempt at intarsia although it is on a large scale, so it shouldn't be hard. I am going to double the graph so that the details show up better. I may use the leftovers to do a felted tote with the same picture.
Anyway, here is the picture in the book:
I ordered the yarn from Patternworks but two of the four are backordered. That is not a problem as I am not exactly in desperate need of starting a new project LOL.
Posted by DebC at April 1, 2004 08:40 AM
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what is felting. I've never heard of that
Posted by: Kim at April 17, 2004 03:40 PM